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Lucy + Jorge Orta - Antarctica

On 5th June we could saw in Hangar Bicocca in Milan, a unique show “Antarctica” about the artworks created by Lucy and Jorge Orta, two artists who left for an expedition in the South Pole looking for innovative thoughts.

Cultural exchange

The installations, that are part of an artistic project set among the cold and huge ices of the South, include base camp’s tents made with flags of different countries from all over the world, parachutes, survival equipments, a particular video reporting the artists’ trip and other works, all symbolizing the abolition of every frontier for the integration and the cultural exchange among people.

Visitors entering the Hangar Bicocca receive their Antarctic World Passport, a passport edition created by the artists as a symbol for the eradication of all borders, real or imaginary, as obstacles to integration and cultural exchange.

The exhibition is also an occasion for presenting other major works created by the artists, addressing social, environmental and humanitarian issues.

The show will be open till 08/06/08.

јун 6th, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | on-exhibitions, hangar bicocca, antarctica, south pole | no comments

World press photo 2008

The photo show which exposes the World press photo 2008 , award pictures about photography and journalism, was held on 8 th of May in Carla Sozzani gallery, in Milan.

Among the lot of photos we find images that surprised, that made people reflect, that shocked, that stimulated the entire world, we find images that excited, that injected heroism, images that we never wish to see, and images that instead we wish to see every day of our lives. The just gone-by year best pictures have been all made with Canon cameras. This year edition’s winner is an Englishman Tim Hetherington, who made a picture for Vanity Fair America, painting an American soldier exhausted by war in Afghanistan. The show will be open until 25^th of May.

мај 12th, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | photos, , Milan, articles, tim hetherington, world press photo 2008 | no comments

Lato 4 by Velasco Vitali

On 21st April in the Project B /Contemporary Art , in Milan, the painter Velasco Vitali proposes his show made of works drawn on canvass. The pictures represent glimpses and modern and ancient monuments of the city of Milan.

Taking a careful look, we can notice the Pirelli skyscraper, the arena and some of the most famous and important roads of the Lombardia’s capital, from Larga road up till Europa avenue. In this show the artist’s skills of defining the most symbolic places of the economic capital of the country are endless. Every painting tells the sinful succession of nostalgic events in favor of a perception focused more on chaos than on order. This exposition will be open for the public still tomorrow .

април 23rd, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | on-exhibitions, Milan, contemporary art, paintings, project b, velasco vitali | no comments

The stories and portraits of Sicily

On 17 th March Studio Forni in Milan has opened the painting exhibition of the great italian artist Giovanni La Cognata . These paintings depict characters and Sicilian countrysides, which the artist is particularly linked, as Sicily his land of origin.

Among the many cities depicted with oil on canvas , like Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Comiso, Lampedusa, Marsala, this artist expresses a strong sense of melancholy to his land in every painting. Also,we could see in the gallery , paintings of women and perhaps men belonged to the past life of the artist. This exposition will remain open until 22 th of March.

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март 20th, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | on-exhibitions, Milan, italy, giovanni la cognata, paintings, sicily, studio forni, the stories and portraits of sicily | no comments

“Bad Dolls and Broken Dreams” by Maurizio Rosazza Prin, Milan

The exposition of pictures “Bad Dolls and Broken Dreams” by the artist Maurizio Rosazza Prin held in exclusive local “Le Biciclette” in Milan, we still can see it tomorrow when exhibition will be closed .The paintings of this young artist causing anxiety, empathy and a lot of curiosity.

The works on display are a dozen, all with references surreal within our dreams or our deepest nightmares. But, the real massage of the artist could be : have you ever wondered where are going to finish your dreams?

Further more, this exposition show us the creativity which explode in its honest form, then could be said this is a real contemporary art.

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март 11th, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | Milan, Art, italy, articles, contemporary art, Bad Dolls and Broken Dreams, Maurizio Rosazza Prin, pictures | no comments

Ritratti by Tania Pistone, gallery Spiralearte - Milan

Images ( Ritratti) by Tania Pistone shows the famous artists, poets and historical persons exposed to Spiralearte Gallery in Milan, deliver to visitors a piece of contemporary art. Among the many faces are known as Ernest Hemingway, Marco Polo, Camille Claudel, Erasmo From Rotterdam, Herman Hesse, Voltaire painted with acrylic, collage, and text on canvas, to Ulisse, Miguel De Cervantes and many others.
This Italian artist forwards the suggestions of who wants to tell stories through color and texture, creating conceptual paintings where abstraction is the final result of a mental. Writing is a sign calligraphic, loses its meaning and remains significant, trace of a thought process of destruction capable of thoughts in a sensory and emotional dimension.
The artist plays with the size and the different forms of her works. The exhibition becomes a portrait where some works have large and medium size, other unusual forms, others are small, some very small.
The exhibition will be open to the public until March 22 th.

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март 2nd, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | on-exhibitions, Milan, Art, italy, Exhibition, gallery spiralearte, portrait, tania pistone | no comments

Barbers from Sicily, gallery Grazia Neri-Milan

The photo event of the photographer Armando Rotoletti, held in Milan gallery Grazia Neri on Thursday, February 21^th showed us pictures of the real working life of several daily Sicilian barbers. The represent photos lead us in a flash in the mind of these characters .
The images were immortalized in the early nineties by Armando Rotoletti who crossed the island far and wide, thus managing to rebuild a documentary and anthropological complete.

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фебруар 25th, 2008 Posted by Marco Feliciani | photos, on-exhibitions, Milan, italy, armando rotoletti, barbers from sicily, gallery grazia neri | no comments