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Finally a unique festival “dedicated to films showing our common humanity”!
This is the motto of “Without Borders Film Festival” just moved from Rome to Spoleto (Umbria/Italy) and taking place from July 1st to 3rd .
For the third edition of the so defined by Jerry Levitan “festival with a soul” the theme chosen is “HOME” including displacement and homelessness. In our shrinking world some are homeless, while others have several homes, and often the emotional home is in conflict with the actual physical home.
Julien Frydman, formerly Director of Magnum Photo in Paris since 2006 and consultant for the Luma Foundation for the “parc des ateliers” in Arles has just been appointed Director of Paris Photo, which will be taking place from November 9th to 13th in its new venue in the Grand Palais and no longer in the Carrousel du Louvre.
“Time is a very relative concept. Everyone lives it according to his/her own rhythms and experiences. Ten years is, however, a major stretch of time and some change should be visible or, at least, detectable”, so starts the editorial of our Chief Editor Ariella Risch on illywords magazine #31, the issue celebrating the 10th anniversary of the magazine just presented in occasion of “La Biennale di Venezia”.
Today is a big day for the students of „Methodologies of creative graphics“ at Centro Formazione Pordenone. It is the examination day. And as in these hours big reviews of „how did the year turn out“ have been made, I would like to join and keep writing on our blog about the experience started exactly three months ago when we met in occasion of the workshop about new graphic ideas for illywords magazine.
Illywords – magazine and blog – were today the absolute protagonists of a very interesting workshop held at Centro Formazione Pordenone (Italy), an institution specialised in professional training courses.
Big opening today for the 61st edition of the Berlinale International Filmfestival starting with the movie of the Coen brothers, True Grit.
Here in Berlin, already on Monday morning at two o´clock in the night, the first people began to queue in front of the ticket counters in Potsdamer Platz, Kino International and at Urania. They got up really on time – or rather they did not sleep at all! – to be sure to be there when the counters open at 10 a.m.
Kick off tomorrow – Wednesday, February 9th – for ARS in ARA, the event about the state of the art of virtual worlds taking place for the second time at Ara Pacis in Rome. Here from 3 until 6.30 p.m. the most authoritative representatives of the web will meet on the occasion of the big worldwide happening “Social Media Week Rom” (7th – 11th February).
Anna Adriani found to spend her time in the best way during her Christmas holidays:Paris +Art. here her story telling.
Paris pétillante! Paris is a sparkling city as far as contemporary art is concerned these days. Besides, the very cold weather pushes people to enjoy the warmth of the museums.
I was recently in Rome for work. Rain, strikes… the usual these days. But in the company of friends, museum directors, and lots of art, I had the opportunity to muse on the public and private display of contemporary art.
The sincere and rough photographs of the American artist Jim Goldberg are exhibited for the first time in Italy in a path that reveals the themes of his major artistic experiences. The show inaugurates the new spaces of PARCO – the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Pordenone and is on now until January 30 2011. Curator Marco Minuz recounts the special moment when, the night before the inauguration, the sun had set a few hours before and all the works were hanging in their definitive positions. The installers had gathered their drills and ladders and gone home. And he remained alone with the art.
Waste Land is a film about finding the beauty in an ugly place. It’s about garbage and recycling, sort of. Or it is a film about looking at art, or about making art. Or about the potential of art to change people. It is all these things and more, I think, as I attempt to digest the powerful story that I saw last night at the Italian premiere (part of the Lo Schermo dell’Arte film festival in Florence).
Directed by Lucy Walker and featuring New York contemporary artist Vik Muniz, the documentary film recounts the three-year project by Muniz “as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of catadores, self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. His collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores.”
The amazing Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting, until January 16, 2011, the retrospective exhibition “Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One To Many, 1956-1974″. Young brilliant curator Carlos Basualdo has traced a very interesting path through Pistoletto’s creative work, clearly depicting his deep involvement, since the very beginning and until the present day, with the most current social and political topics.
I arrived today in Torino to a splendidly welcoming greyness just in time for the opening press conference of Artissima. The contemporary art fair, now in its 17th edition, features a section dedicated to “Present-Future”, the future of art through emerging artists and the galleries that support them…
Reporting live from Galleria illy in Istanbul, reporter Elvan Uysal has been providing tips about this city. One fascinating aspect is the way that life takes place around or on the Bosphorus, sometimes for transportation (via the Vapur boats), sometimes for gastronomic delight. Here’s what she has to say.
While in Istanbul for Galleria illy we went to meet Ismail Acar, one of the country’s best known artists. We visited him in his studio in the Tophane area that has been in the news lately because of riots there directed against the art galleries. The sights, smells, and sounds of Tophane’s chaotic streets form a strong contrast to the peace inside Acar’s house-gallery inside which we were blessed with a private performance.
Galleria illy has moved from Berlin on to Istanbul. A new location, a new public that will be learning about coffee culture in the fabulous space created by Tobias Rehberger. And alongside all this “new”, I’m struck by the old, the traditions, the colours, the grit of the city. These are my first impressions of Istanbul.
The best street party I’ve ever seen: a mid-September afternoon in Berlin, an event that is creativity encapsulated. Coloured crepe paper became a hat, a pumpkin became a sculpture, pieces of wood became skyscrapers… I followed this trail of creativity and innovation.
For months leading up to “The Summer Holiday”, Italians ask each other about summer travel plans. And the question is almost always “Mare o Montagna” – sea, or mountains? But maybe the question should be “Mare, Montagna, o Museo?” – sea, mountain, or museum? How many people go to Italy’s museums in the summer? How does this compare to worldwide trends?
In a rural hospital in Angal, in the northern reaches of Uganda, administrators are using computers to track patient and pharmacy data thanks to an Italian no-profit, “Informatici senza Frontiere”. Their project is communicated with beauty and sensibility by Matteo de Mayda, whose photographs tell the stories of the “Alur” people of Angal.
Yesterday Ariella was in Berlin. Soccer set aside, there is a lot more going on in Berlin these days. I didn’t make it to the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, but I can show you some great photos from one of the events at Berlin Fashion Week which just opened.
Silvia from London recounts the experience of viewing an exhibit at the Barbican not one, not two, but three times. And who could NOT resist cute birds playing the electric guitar? Curious? Read on… in English and Italian.
A Libreria 121 in Zona Tortona, Ariella incontra la scrittrice Harriet Russel e pensa ai libri illustrati, lo sviluppo della creatività e della fantasia nell’infanzia attraverso il gioco.
A chance meeting with childrens’ author Harriet Russel at Libreria 121 in Zona Tortona, Milano, gets Ariella thinking about illustrated books and their role in childrens’ creativity and immagination.
Vi sono incontri che, nel descriverli, perdono in parte quella magia, quell’atmosfera che li avvolgeva e li rendeva così importanti. Con il tempo trascorso quello che oggi conservo del mio incontro con Mimmo Jodice sono soprattutto particolari…
Sabato 15 maggio si é aperta a Milano la nuova Galleria di Lia Rumma in via Stilicone. Abbiamo chiesto ad Anna Adriani la sua impressione, dato che era ospite all’inaugurazione.
Saturday May 15th 2010 was the exciting opening night of the Galleria Lia Rumma in Milan. We asked Anna Adriani, guest at opening night, for her impressions (and photos!).
Our London correspondent Silvia Vatta attended the celebrations this weekend for the 10th birthday of Tate Modern and sends us this report (in both English and Italian!).
Come ospite del Blog Café a Squisito, ho avuto l’opportunita di incontrare dei importanti Blogger… di essere visto (e spero cliccato) dagli esperti del blog e del cibo. Applausi ce ne sono stati, dimostrazioni di cordialità anche….
Di ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell’uomo e mantengono intatto il loro mistero. Ho assaggiato il pane del forno di San Patrignano; ho notato i filari di viti, perfetti nel loro allineamento, mentre guardano il mare. Ho parlato con gli espositori, ho guardato negli occhi i ragazzi , tutti volontari in quei quattro giorni e ho capito. Ho capito che il cibo e la sua comunione sono una cultura in grado di creare ancora emozione. Non cose eclatanti e roboanti come oggi siamo abituati ad avere, ma piccoli movimenti dell’animo che a fine giornata ti hanno dato serenità e benessere. Se questa non è cultura…
Ariella’s impressions upon leaving the University of Bocconi in Milan where she was presenting the Conviviality issue.
Ariella reflects, in front of a crowded Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, about the quality of content and other comparisons between print and web publishing.
Ariella davanti alla platea durante un incontro al teatro Franco Parenti di Milano riflette sulla qualità dei contenuti confrontando esperienze editoriali su carta stampata e sul web.
In “who was your table companion when…”, we ask readers to tell stories of unusual conviviality. While at the Salone Satellite looking at the students’ projects, I asked David Graves, president of Laureate International Universities, if he had a nightmare dinner story. Here is his video answer.
illywords wants YOU! to tell us “Who was your table companion when…” In this post, Ariella recounts one hilarious dinner table experience in which she abandoned her usual technique of just smiling and nodding.
Illywords desidera che tu ci racconti “chi era il tuo vicino a tavola la volta che…”. Ariella nel post riporta una divertente esperienza durante un pranzo di lavoro in cui per una volta abbandona il suo solito modo di sorridere e annuire.
4am. The middle of the night. Or of the morning, depending how you look at it. The darkest hour, the hour most people are likely to be asleep. 4am is the theme assigned for the 2009 “Scritture giovani”, a young writers’ prize supported by illy and a project of the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, Italy. It’s also a recurring theme in much of our culture – why?
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