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#10 Nomadic knowledge
How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge?
In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: achei, article, artist, beppe fenoglio, book, bruno gambarotta, carlo emilio gadda, carlo lucarelli, community, dcisions, digital, experience, fiat, fragments, frame | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
In front a cup of coffee.
“I learnt to paint like Raphael, now I have to learn to draw like a child.” Pablo Picasso
I’ve often wondered whether art and life are really related. Some artists have indeed turned their lives into their best work of art. But what a
price some have had to pay for their commitment and approach to life! Oscar...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: absolute beauty, acknowledge, age, appearance, art, beauty, caravaggio, country, deep meaning, desires, details, dreams, emotional content, endless job, eternal damnation | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
In front of a cup of coffee.
In the digital era self portraiture enables anyone to produce a work of art instinctively, without knowing anything about photography. I have been using this technique for several years, with children, adolescents and adults from all walks of life, helping them to make self portraits using my own camera, or letting t...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bob dylan, bodies, camera, cosmos, creator, cristina nunez, dialogue, discover, experience, faces, identity, image, introspection, lens, meaning | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
In front of a coup of coffee
“When I saw myself, I wasn’t there”, hissed the poets (funambulists) of the art, our art, when age-old conventional forms were suddenly torn asunder by concepts. That was indeed the time when art practices were centred on the conceptual (by way of example see a square metre of felt under the entry “Vincenzo A...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alessandro mendini, architecture, art, autobiography, beppe finessi, biography, bruno munari, carlo mollino, charm, concepts, cordon rouge, corkscrew, design, designer, function | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
There’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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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: american, andy warhol, art, augustine, camera, frank stella, itself, method, michelangelo pistoletto, mirror, motive, outcome, photo, photograph, photographer | 1 Comment »
