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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
Marina Abramovic meets Patricia Urquiola
-> Marina Abramovic meets Patricia UrquiolaGalleria Illy was packed out again last night for the inaugural event of this year's month-long calendar, as perfomance pioneer Marina Abramovic settled in for a chat with her biggest fan, Patricia Urquiola, one of Spain's most successful designers, about "how art and design can come together to create new ideas". The room buzzed with anticipati...
continue..Galleria illy comes to London
-> Galleria illy comes to LondonGalleria illy kicked off its latest series of arty events last night as design powerhouses FLOS and Moroso, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Marina Abramovic joined forces in Clerkenwell. The venue was transformed into a striking white space with bright stripes and splashes of colour, an illy bar, bookshop and a cavernous corner housing a load of ca...
continue..Galleria illy London: Carlo Bach in interview
-> Galleria illy London: Carlo Bach in interviewA new Galleria illy is coming on September 12th in London. Let’s have a look behind the curtains of this event through the words of Carlo Bach, Artistic Director of illycaffè interviewed by Ariella Risch. Ariella Risch: “Crossover – creativity meets creativity”. This is the main theme of Galleria illy. What is the philosophy behind t...
continue..Attracted by passion!
-> Attracted by passion!Do you think it´s possible to go to school and learn passion? Unfortunately it does not seem it works like that…but if only it existed this possibilty I guess we wouldn´t be in a bad humor all the time when we wake up in the morning to go to work or to the university. In 2003 illywords had already faced this theme in the magazine providing a...
continue..“What happens when” in Soho and “Conflict Kitchen” in Pittsburgh: outbreaking perspectives for gourmet food in the US
-> "What happens when" in Soho and "Conflict Kitchen" in Pittsburgh: outbreaking perspectives for gourmet food in the USGourmet food is served on trucks that used to sell greasy kebab. Pop-up restaurants open in strange locations. Even artists get involved: Marina Abramovic recently created a flaming desert for the restaurant Park Avenue Spring. The conventional idea of eating out is being tweaked and subverted everywhere. One of these projects is star chef J...
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..Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell’arte!
-> Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell'arte!Leggo sul magazine Io Donna (il femminile del Corriere della Sera) che Angela Vettese, critica d’arte, è appena stata premiata come figura di spicco al femminile. La Giuria internazionale del Veuve Cliquot Award ha deciso di assegnarle il premio 2010 “al valore artistico femminile”. Sorrido mentre leggo l'intervista ad Angela Vettese (di P...
continue..The artist is (no longer) present – Marina Abramovic @Moma
-> The artist is (no longer) present - Marina Abramovic @MomaAnna Adriani é stata a New York ieri alla chiusura della performance di Marina Abramovic e ci manda questi impressioni. // These are the impressions of Anna Adriani, who was at yesterday's closing ceremony of Marina Abramovic's much discussed performance at the Moma. Che emozione essere al MOMA di New York oggi, proprio nel momento in cui Marina ...
continue..What’s On, week of May 3 2010
-> What's On, week of May 3 2010This week's bouquet of What's On is international: China, USA, Italy. On Now Until August 29 in Beijing, China: Rem(a)inders. an exhibition at the Beijing branch of Galleria Continua (a contemporary gallery with its home in San Gimignano, Tuscany). The exhibit opens with an impressive installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto that made the ne...
continue..Art Fairs? Impressive
-> Art Fairs? ImpressiveI have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in Madrid. Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world. An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve. ...
continue..Freed passion
Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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