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Category Archives: Art

ROCCA DI FRASSINELLO

6 July, 2010

Rock of Frassinello is nestled below the slopes of the medieval town of Giuncarico right between Gavorrano and Ribolla, perched on a gentle hill overlooking the vast plains of farmland and farms. The company Fortress Frasinello comes from a small idea, linked to the development needs of Castellare di Castellina Chianti (a company for nearly [...]

PIG ISLAND

4 June, 2010

Every generation elects new masters and decrees their rediscovery. Authors and works travel a time, free from patterns capable of reset and rewrite the rules, like the famous performer California, Paul McCarthy, who for the first time arrives in Italy with a personal anthology of his works from 1975 to 2010, displayed in the reopened rooms of Palazzo Citterio, in [...]

BRUTTO

9 April, 2010

“Your body is a battleground” declared commandingly, in bold white type over red background, Barbara Kruger. It was 1989, and as the decade of excess drew to a close, the post-feminist American artist, deliberately appropriating from the language of advertising, condensed in a knife-edged slogan a turbulent shift in the global perception of the body.

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DANIEL EGNÉUS

26 March, 2010

Poetic and mythological. Daniel Egnéus is the most prolific and interesting  illustrator of our time. Spiritual master of dark and dreamy images, identifies his art in daily life, his works are remnants of life, a perceptual capacity related to the gaze of a widened eye to which details do not escape: a gaze which, embracing [...]

THE BEAUTY OF DESTRUCTION

22 February, 2010

On February the 24th in Milan Gloria Maria Gallery will showcase the first italian exhibition of artist BOUKE DE VRIES: A Grand Tour of My Mind. The most important ancient ceramic restorer in Europe but also the most wanted contemporary artist from most collectors’ point of view. The Beauty Of Destruction is the theme identified [...]

FLEUR D’ORANGER

4 December, 2009

Musée D’Orsay has selected the classic Déco stamp manufactured by Prada for Infusion de Fleur D’Oranger’s packaging design to be part of a new exhibition dedicated to revaluation and evolution of Art Nouveau in contemporary culture. Prada’s pattern will be shown next to Man Ray, Salvador Dalí and Aubrey Beardsley artworks, among others. “Art Nouveau [...]