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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
“Going Dutch in Beijing”: Mark McCrum shares his clever cultural insights for travelling without faux pas
-> "Going Dutch in Beijing": Mark McCrum shares his clever cultural insights for travelling without faux pasWhy should you always wear clean socks in Burma? Never give carnations to your host at a Japanese dinner party? Or offer to split the bill (to ‘go Dutch’ you might say) in Beijing? On Monday night at Galleria illy, Mark McCrum shared some of the faux pas we might be inclined to make when visiting a foreign country. A captive audience gathere...
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..Launch of Galleria illy London. An interview to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Carlo Bach
-> Launch of Galleria illy London. An interview to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Carlo BachThe collaboration between the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and illy has been a stimulating and productive fellowship for several years. Today they are going to gather in London around Pistoletto´s art work “The Mediterranean Table” with the aim of ratifying an old pact with the sea and the Mediterranean people. Michelangelo Pistol...
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..The naked place
-> The naked place“The naked place”. Should I give today a title to my editorial of the magazine issue of the year 2004 on the topic “Place, Not Place”, I would call it like that. A naked place is a place that I can cover or fill with my presence, my choices and my content. Daniel Buren said at that time: a place can be transformed by an intervention ...
continue..Arte Povera: Pistoletto, Kounellis, Merz
-> Arte Povera: Pistoletto, Kounellis, MerzDrinking hemlock or being bitten by some poisonous animal may be fatal. But then again, so can abusing of the drugs that Damien Hirst displays in chock-a-block full show-cases, packed almost to overflowing in obsessively neat order. “Biology’s biology and technology’s technology and never the twain shall meet” is a rash and indeed obtuse at...
continue..What’s On November 2010
-> What's On November 2010A month of art throughout the Italian peninsula from the world of illywords... Torino, November 5-7: Artissima International contemporary art fair. Illywords will be present - article to follow. Rimini, November 6-27: Leonardo Sonnoli (who collaborated with illywords through Ivrea), presents Poemi quotidiani. This exhibit takes an ironic loo...
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..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..What’s on (April 6)
-> What's on (April 6)"What's on" for the week of Tuesday April 6. On Now Until April 25 2010, Rome: "The Art Circuit: artists, galleries, collectionists" at Museo Pietro Canonica at Villa Borghese. An exhibit of contemporary works by Gianni Asdrubali, Pasquale Basile, Matteo Basilé, Mel Bochner, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Lucilla Catania, Mario Ceroli, Marco Collett...
continue..Out of the mould
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorIn your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes? Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...
continue..Dilation of feel
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitThere’s a famous photograph by Ugo Mulas showing a picture by Michelangelo Pistoletto that reflects the viewer’s image. It’s a masterful shot consonant with the picture’s subject matter, a work of art itself and a difficult work at that precisely because it acts like a mirror. It’s a work whose photographic rendition requires some degree ...
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