Atelier. Andrea Saltini
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
“I paint almost in the dark, I leave on only one light bulb, you see? Just so you can make the light and shade… sometimes even turn off the light and work by candlelight.” Those distinctive chiaroscuro are the “fingerprint” of Andrea Saltini’s works, they are the brush strokes that give expression to portraits, the
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The Bassa, Tokyo and the logs: Gianni Pezzani
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Gianni Pezzani was born in 1951 in Colorno, in the province of Parma, in the “Bassa”. That area near the Po, that Po Valley with boundless and often indistinguishable horizons because of the fog, those difficult and sometimes hostile lands with unbearable climate and abandoned farmsteads, but also rich of evocative images, poetic echoes which
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Design in 400 words: a 360° degrees designer, Stefano Giovannoni
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Have you seen Fruitscape? In my opinion it is the object par excellence, so elegant, harmonious, it really is the most beautiful design object of the century. To lean a fruit upon it is a ritual, it seems to be wrapped up when it goes to lie down in the space designed for it. A
Curiosity e-book: Davide Mana
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
While surfing in the web looking for curious books I came across Davide Mana and his blog Evolutionary Strategies, where the author offers for free some of his writings that I found interesting. I have chosen to focus on three titles, but feel free to read the others. Here Davide describes them, in his own
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The Silent Dreams of Irene Kung
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Dark funds or neutral blacks of the night or smoky fog from which emerge quiet and muffled pictures by Irene Kung. The artist, Swiss but settled in Italy and trained as a painter, recently chose to use photography as an expressive medium, and her works will inevitably keep track of a pictorial than for this
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A table with holes
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
All of us have read Mickey Mouse even once. I had also earned medals as a young explorer but I cannot remember in which competition or collection points, I still have the diplomas that they sent me at home, but… But… I’ve never eaten a meal sitting at a table in the shape of cheese
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Atelier. Erjon Nazeraj
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Erion Nazeraj defines himself as a sculptor, but what he shows me first of all are drawings. Dozens and dozens of images on different media, recovered pieces of paper that in the artistic operation lose their original functionality, sometimes the graphic sign intersects with collages, sometimes paper layering prevails and there is a strange tangency
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Shots of silence. Riccardo Varini and photography in Reggio Emilia
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Today it’s snowing. Big and light flakes that slowly cover roofs, trees and the resting fields. A photographer will certainly go out with his camera, he will reach the hills and capture light and greatly charming images. This photographer is called Riccardo Varini and he made of snow one of his muses, so as to
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Design in 400 words: Silvia Censi
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
I met Silvia during a cooking course which was held in a friends’ restaurant, not that I’m a cooking-lover woman… not nearly. I do not know how yet, but I created some tortelli, physically making the pasta and the filling, amazing! It’s just like chef Gusteau says in Disney’s “Ratatouille”: “anyone can cook”. Returning to
DESIGN IN 400 WORDS: Giorgio Tartaro, who interview us who interview?
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Insiders know Giorgio Tartaro since the beginning of his career, but “next door” design enthusiasts approach his professional career following his Tv shows. The simplicity he uses to bring this discipline in our homes helped everyone turn some corner of their home in a special corner. A thesis on Enzo Mari, why a degree in