Alabama Sculptor DeeDee Morrison’s studio is nestled in a limestone quarry. An active one. “It’s an old Republic Steel Plant that closed down, but it’s got wonderful buildings,” she says. “Now it’s an operable quarry for road-grade material”. For an artist, that can lead to some interesting moments. “When they blast, some of the stone

“Have you ever written a haiku?” This is the question that Maurizio asked his friend Silvia some time ago. The answer was negative; Silvia did not know that word meant, but remembered having read a book many years before with the glaring title Snow – a novel by Maxence Fermine in which haiku was also

The most important conceptual and formal innovation of photography by Ghergo is the abandoning of picturesque iconography and the creation of a sophisticated yet sobre image, created with careful geometry, where light models the shapes of the subject; and it is this talent that doses the light that marks the boundary between ordinary portrait and

“It’s difficult to be photographed after Ghergo, difficult to see another Alida Valli, or Sylva Koscina, or Sophia Loren. Ghergo in his austere studio transfigures them into the light which defines the outlines of the faces (…). With this Ghergo defines it (the light) a real process of beatification in an ideal heaven”. These are

What is a minivan Volkswagen, symbol of the hippie culture, doing on the second floor of the Museum of natural sciences in Turin… ah yes, it is the “Steve Jobs 1955-2011″ exhibition; who, when he was 18 years old had one, and sold it to found Apple Computers. It was 1976: with approximately $ 600

Photography and food. Representing food in photography is a practice as old as photography itself. Ways of representing it have undergone enormous changes over the decades and are adapted to the lifestyles and fashions of the moment: we have gone from “still life” to hyper-bucolic images of the 1980s used in advertising, to those current

A painting by Enrico Robusti – and I speak of the newer ones – is neither calming nor reassuring. Stupidity, vulgarity, meanness, hypocrisy: the feelgood humanity lives elsewhere. Occasionally some kindness emerges. Distorted figures and dizzying perspectives, large canvases shine with acrylic aggressiveness; the subjective interpretation falls before the imperative meaning of titles, ironic if

«Stampa d’arte»: un termine un po’ elitario, pieno di mistero, che nei secoli ha sedotto artisti come Dürer, Rembrandt, Parmigianino, Goya, Piranesi, Picasso e tanti altri. Eredite della tradizione e dello spirito di un lavoro svolto interamente a mano, l’incisore André Beuchat da più di vent’anni è attivo nel mondo della carta e dell’inchiostro. Per