Private Flat
Is there anything better than collaborating on the same project?
Probably not, it’s one of the best experiences ever, working, pizza break, working, feeling sleepy, parting from each other.
Tomorrow … another day, another working day, with the curators and fellow artists Mirta Paglini and Virginia Lopez.
Today is my day. Idee di mondi possibili
a cura di Petra Březačkova e Federica Faraone
looking forward for the opening!
What are you looking up to?
“Deh … ‘sa guardi ‘nzù, ‘sa c’è ‘n’ UFO?” (thick accent from Livorno)
“What are you looking up to? a UFO?”
“Oh well, just astonished by the umbrella pine tree, we don’t have that many especially this big in Florence”
“Deh .. bellina ‘uesta’n ch’aveo mai penzato … deh’n effetti a Firenze di grossi ‘osì nemmanco ar parco delle ‘Ascine …”
“Well … nice call, I have never thought of it that way … you must be right in Florence you don’t have that many not even at the Cascine (i.e. famous public park in Florence)”
A pocket camera and a couple of shots of the surrounfidings in an autumnal morning.
CARNAGE
Broken armchair, leftovers on the floor, leaves brought in by the wind, people taking off their shoes during the show as if they were at home, a big private home theatre.
The biggest home theatre you may ever wish for, the feeling of sharing a place that is known to a recognizable breed of customers, that probably come in with long scarves, stripey socks and trendy glasses with a vintage frame and flavour.
Today Carnage was the choice.
The movie suffers a bit from being an acclaimed play by Yasmina Reza , that has been adapted for a feature film, in a time of huge productions though it’s extremely nice for a director to rely upon the actor’s skills to keep the attention alive and while I have found Foster’s performance a bit too over the caricature side of a stressed woman, I have definitely appreciated the measured role and acting of Kate Winslet.
To be watched in English to fully appreciate the voices of this international co-production.
UMBRIA
UMBRIA
the ugly stuff was the theme of the previous post, nothing farthermost from that than this: Umbria is nature at it’s greenest meaning.
Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges et maxima taurus
victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro,
romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphosPublio Virgilio Marone, Georgiche, Libro II, vv. 146-148
Many different kind of animals, but no calves, cows or bulls around anymore, truth is, Italy has changed since the first Century BC.
DIRT
DIRT
“Well what am I gonna photograph, everything around here is so ugly …”
“Photograph the ugly stuff”
Mrs Eggleston talking about how William Eggleston started his peculiar photographic journey.
“The picture was good, out of focus, but good” – David Lynch about his portrait taken by William Eggleston
I guess some may be out of focus, some may be interesting, some may not, but this were the selected items found on the ground of Luna Park deserted by day and probably crowded at night.
In Pistoia, in 2009.
CINEMA PORTICO
There are places that cannot keep up with the modern times, places that hold the post that was originally given them in the beginning.
PArtially it’s the dust of times and years that have passed and have left their unique signature, the decorations, the simple neon sign that says “BAR” as if we need to know that inside the theatre there is also a bar where the liquors are at least twice as aged as the label declares.
A movie theatre, a worn out ticket box and two dogs, as old as the building, probably ageless.
The black four legged silhouette precedes you with difficulty on the stairs just to stop half way, staring at you from the depth of the two deep black shiny holes set on his large head. As you pass by you are far gone from his thoughts, erased or associated with the moltitudes he has barked at in his early years.
A poor ikebana style flower composition sits by the bathroom doors, slightly opened as the springs have long lost their efficiency, they are surprisingly clean.
Let the times, years, months, days, hours and all the following fractions of time stratify in layers of memory, do not wipe out our memories.
PAMPILONIA
PAMPILONIA
A parte la lotta per la bandiera, sempre un’aria di rissa accompagna le manifestazioni religiose cui partecipano gli uomini. Nel 1948, prima delle elezioni, i padri domenicani portavano l’effige della Madonna di Fatima da un paese all’altro, un vento di miracoli percorreva la Sicilia, promissioni ed offerte piovevano su quella nuova immagine della Madonna, di sordomuti si diceva che ai piedi della Madonna avessero mugolato parole, di paralitici che riuscivano a trascinare passi tra la folla.
A noi di Regalpetra la Madonna giunse dal vicino paese di Castro, i castrensi l’accompagnarono per sette chilometri in processione, alle porte di Regalpetra trovarono i preti la banda e la popolazione, ai regalpetresi dovevano conseganre la Madonna. Ma i castrensi volevano portarla a spalla fin dentro il paese [...].
La zuffa si accese, girandole di bestemmie rutilarono intorno alla celeste effige, i padri levavano alte le mani a placare la tempesta.
Mai la Madonna come in quel giorno è stata bestemmiata dai cittadini di Castro e Regalpetra.Leonardo Sciascia – Le parrocchie di Regalpetra.
SICILY in colours
WOrking at night willing to share my experience and listening to a Physics lesson in the meantime, just to realize how mathematically slow I am … I have never improved no matter how hard I tried.
What does science have to do with sicily? Probably not much as Sciascia recognized how irrational his region was.
These pictures were taken in variuos towns, attracted as I was by peculiar geometries, people and natural Sicilian phenomenons.
This is also a selection of the first two rolls of color negative film I have developed.
Tutti i miei libri in effetti ne fanno uno. Un libro sulla Sicilia che tocca i punti dolenti del passato e del presente e che viene ad articolarsi come la storia di una continua sconfitta della ragione e di coloro che nella sconfitta furono personalmente travolti e annientati. – Leonardo Sciascia
ARTE e DESIGN KM0 – TANNAZ gallery Firenze
It’s in the center of Florence, so close to the Duomo that you can hear the noise of the tourists flowing in the streets, it’s a medium sized gallery for Florentine standards, where the properties have been fractioned into smaller entities an infinite number of times.
The TANNAZ gallery with its white walls and vaulted ceilings is the dreamy space wanted by Tannaz Hosseini Lahiji, the location is fabulous and the selection of felt masterpieces selected by Gabriella Anedi and Angelo Minisci features a wide range of approaches to the medium with a common denominator of fine quality.
The intentions of the artists and designers varies, from those that are pursuing the perfect execution to those that are trying to dig into the infinite variations of a material that is always different, but consistent, there is the industrial felt as well as a majority of handcrafts. For those that have had the pleasure to follow Feltrosa, the list of name will be quite familiar: Rutsuko Sakata, Eva Basile, Cristiana Di Nardo, Federica Prezioso.
The exhibit will be up untill the 20th of September, it’s definitely worth a stop after which a delicious ice cream is granted by … that famous ice cream vendor at the corner … down the road, can’t miss it, there is always a long cue in front.
Sicily 2011
Avoid the beaten paths, create your own invisible track in a short trip, a different way to discover Sicily.
The dirt, the smells, the burned soil, patched in black and brown, the wind that drives you crazy, the salt and the sulfur, the noise and the silence.
The perfect scenario for Vittorini’s “Le città del mondo”.
Sicily, beyond the smiling facade of Taormina, is a personal challenge, Sicily does not expect to be loved, but surely knows it’ll be missed.
Come back, respond to the challenge, listen.