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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Cross-countries trend in the art field: the big comeback of painting. Insights from Bologna Art Fair
-> Cross-countries trend in the art field: the big comeback of painting. Insights from Bologna Art FairIn a warm January when travelling across Italy seems to be so hard, it´s time to meet in Bologna for one of the most unmissable events of the year - ArteFiera Art First - where dealers, collectors and in general art lovers want to meet and melt to start the new year in a big way. Here you can find in fact the gota of all the Italian and int...
continue..Marina Abramovic “reloaded”.
-> Marina Abramovic "reloaded".When she was a child she did not like herself. She had a huge nose, an ugly hair cut and wore orthopaedic shoes. And she was fascinated with Brigitte Bardot. Every time she asked her mother to get her nose operated, she got a slap in her face. So she made a plan: spinning around, very very fast, falling on the edge of the bed, that was sharp, break...
continue..Last Minute Market (Useful waste revisited)
-> Last Minute Market (Useful waste revisited)When illywords met with Last Minute Market (LMM) founder and president Andrea Segrè in 2005 (see “useful waste”), the term “upcycling” didn’t exist yet. But that’s essentially what this academic spin-off does: it links shops and producers (processing industries, food shops, retail stores and the like) who have unsold food which would ...
continue..Fine Arts Academy of Bologna
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeThe Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
continue..Artefiera 2002
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationArte e Fiera 2002 in Bologna, the most important Italian event concerning contemporary art, is an appointment not to be missed by collectors, artists, critics and art lovers tout court. From this recently closed scenario stems the spirit of ImpresArte which, on the occasion of its 2002 edition, produced a book entitled "Collezionare Arte- Un'idea ...
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