Henry van de Velde, a hundred and fifty years of Art Nouveau
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Van de Velde Henry Clemens, known as Henry Van de Velde, was born in Belgium in Antwerp in 1863 and died in Switzerland in 1957. He studied painting, but his admiration for Ruskin, Morris and Voysey shifted him to design; a man of many talents, he believed in the symbiosis between the arts, whether it
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Prokudin, all the colors of the Great Russian Empire
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Sergej Prokudin was born in 1863 and studied chemistry with Dmitrji Mendeleev (the inventor of the Periodic Table, to be clear); when the latter one founded a photograph society, the young Prokudin became fond of photography and in the late nineteenth century, exploiting his studies, became in fact one of the pioneers of color photography.
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Atelier: Nino Migliori
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A striped sofa and a mannequin covered with gold, crushed plastic bottles and empty jars of glass. But above all, a vintage pinball Explorer, fully functional. Nino Migliori is playing while I am looking around taking some photos to the archive, those black boxes in perfect order containing a life as an artist. And before
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Cinzia Munari: painter with her head up
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
“When someone says, I can do it too, it means that he knows redo, otherwise he would have done before.” This sentence of the brilliant Bruno Munari welcomes the site guests of Cinzia Munari, bookseller and painter. As we read in the short biography, Cinzia was born in Lodi, and after a first artistic period
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Gabriele Basilico, the space as an actor
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
“When you try, in a space, to photograph a subject and the subject is the space itself, it happens that one moves, looks far, near and makes some strange movements as if it were a dance, enacts a sort of gesture as that of a diviner who goes looking for something that cannot be seen
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Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited II – Album and tour
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
“Paper late!” cried a voice in the crowd”. It happened on 22.10.2012! Not just yesterday, but even in a time so remote as to make the information superfluous. It really happened. It has been released the sequel of Genesis Revisited published in 1996. It is called, imagine, Genesis Revisited II (after all what else should
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Atelier: Graziano Pompili
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Hands that sculpt, hands that with precise and measured gestures model air aroud words, like they would model clay around an image or would lead the chisel through the lines of an idea. They are a sculptor’s hands, as Graziano Pompili, which bear the signs of doing and tell of strength and precision, delicacy and
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Long live Maria (Luigia)
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
«The artistic heritage of a people is sacred and history wants big things being preserved where they were born, where they are the frieze of life of the people who create them»: this is the spirit with whom professor Glauco Lombardi (1881-1970) devoted his physical, intellectual and economic energies to recover, study and preserving what
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Dj Mackelmore and his Thrift Shop
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
In USA there is a big trend, or even, a real contagion that is involving a plenty of people. It’s not a disease but a white rapper from Seattle very debated and irreverent and one of his most famous funky songs, dedicated to thrift stores, Thrift Shop, viewed more than 77 million times on Youtube;
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Giovanni Amoretti, “smart photographer”
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Giovanni Amoretti’s story is the story of a family. Story that begins with a photographer father – Armando – that left us the amazing report about Parma barricades in 1922. And this is the beginning of an archive of thousands films and images that is still alive, growing, which is a unique treasure chest of
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