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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
Venice, an immense forgotten library
-> Venice, an immense forgotten libraryVenice is a chaotic city. Venice is not a chaotic city. At first glance both statements could be said to be true, but on reflection sound more like banalities. Venice is not a superficial city to be summed up in one sentece. It is not the city of millions of tourists in shorts and sandals shuffling their feet, neither is it the city of Carn...
continue..Louise Bourgeois The Fabric Works (Venice until 19/09/10)
-> Louise Bourgeois The Fabric Works (Venice until 19/09/10)Trasferisco per un pò il mio sguardo da un’isola ad un’altra. Vado a questa mostra correndo sotto la pioggia che mi sono trascinata dietro da Londra. Decisamente sono bagnata, con i piedi quasi nudi zuppi di acqua sporca quando entro nella Fondazione Vedova di Venezia; nel Magazzino del Sale, spazio reimmaginato da Renzo Piano, c’è quest...
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..SVA design students spend two weeks in Italy
-> SVA design students spend two weeks in ItalyWho wouldn't want to spend two weeks in Italy? The students of the Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice of the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York spent May 20 to June 5th in Venice, to be followed by this week (June 6-12) in Rome. You can follow them through the blog and photos they're posting each day on the official site; s...
continue..Who was your table companion when…
-> Who was your table companion when...I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile… Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations. Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat. Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
continue..Biennale twice the size
Magazine -> #13 Conscious project2 questions to the 2 organisers of a unique, 2-yearly event: the Venice Biennale. What's art's role in building up awareness on such major issues as the environment, human rights, social development? Maria de Corral: Today's artists do not share a style, but an attempt to build personal aesthetic worlds, to establish their own formal needs, to ...
continue..Cultural interlude with Aldo Cibic
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by architect and town planner Richard Burdett*, focuses on the theme of Cities: migration, growth, mobility and sustainable development. As part of the exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, architect Aldo Cibic will be interpreting the concept of density. Here, il...
continue..Biennale – Culture open to comparison
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindFor the first time, illycaffè is a partner of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, continuing the relationship which began at the previous editions of Biennale Art in 1997, 2003 and 2005. Against this background of cultural enjoyment we talked to Chairman Davide Croff on the theme of “food for thought”. Ha...
continue..Man and his space. Contexts of life
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionArtemide and Moroso, two companies confirming the contemporary relation between man, design and habitat. Why are consumers attracted by your products, what do they base their purchasing choice on? Carlotta de Bevilacqua Gismondi: Light today is conceived as something that is fundamental to improve and personalise environmental qualities in ever...
continue..Research between man and business
Magazine -> #4 PassionVega, the science and technology park, provides potential national and international investors in Venice with the necessary support, fostering collaboration between economic operators and encouraging innovative firms to set up their main offices in the historic center of Venice and in the nearby mainland. Is research addressed to people or busin...
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...
continue..Growing amazement
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFrom weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
continue..City: a history book
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisObviously, the imagination feeds on knowledge. You need to know things before you can imagine them. This is where it comes in handy to read books about that concentrated mass of human history: cities. In Europe, large cities are usually unsuitable, even to accommodate modernity. Even in a metropolis like London or Paris, where large avenues were ...
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