The great renovation of Italian photography started in the eighties with photographer Luigi Ghirri from the italian region of Emilia Romagna, him before others knew how to create a dialogue between photography, art, architecture, literature and cinema. Painter of “thinking”, Luigi Ghirri has created something fascinating and not easy: the ability to use photography as intellectual [...]
“Photography focuses on silence“, writes in his verses the poet Alda Merini. Silence, faithful companion and questing, is the intellectual and emotional tool that allows us to enter into a relationship with the complexity of the outside world and to tell the many stories that are woven into it, in a continuous and subtle path [...]
From September the 7th, London’ Hoppen Gallery holds the exhibition Tights and Lips, based on the erotic univers of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, 73, from Ikeda near Osaka.
An inventory of images made of strong colors, nude and erotic, which take on a value of self-determination, the perfect blend that combines ease and elegance. An ode to the freedom of body.
An hard [...]
For the most enthusiasts for the quality of magazines, with transversal and research content, the first major event for the European market is with the kiosk on the island of Giudecca at the Spazio Punch in Venice from May 24 to June 30. The first edition of this bi-annual meeting on periodical of art, design, architecture and fashion. The event focuses [...]
Still life is back in fashion. It happens with a series of exhibitions between the U.S. and Europe. David La Chapelle was exhibited during the month of March with the same work in three different cities, Frankfurt, Milan and New York, with the series EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS. Ten still life halfway between baroque floral art and pop culture, that explore vanity of life and beauty.
Colorful flowers portrayed along common objects, symbols of human civility. A metaphor on human arrogance and on the greatness of our planet.Until April the 4th instead, and there is still time to see it, the work of Ori Gersht is [...]
Determined personalirty. Radiant presence. Marine Vacth, new young talent from french cinema, will be the testimonial of one of the women Yves Saint Laurent fragrances, staring from september 2011.
The new icon was celebrated by the critic in Cédric Klapisch last film “Ma part du gâteau“. Marine will also be featuring as one of the future feminine [...]
Literature, cinema and television are always inspired by true stories. Realism is told as a fiction by invoking the “narrative” of lives and transform reality into a set. In the exibition Set Amsterdam, at Foam from March 25th to May 29th 2011, the Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg exhibits a portfolio of images that portray her home town [...]
With an exclusive portfolio of images, exhibited at Galleria Carla Sozzani (Saturday, January 15 – 10 Corso Como), Robert Polidori, Canadian photographer, explores the 25 years of progresses in the restoration of the magnificent royal residence of Louis XIV. Through intuitive and seductive dictates of the eye, Polidori narrates the interior, magical and mysterious, of the sumptuous palace, [...]
“The thing that fascinated me about this group of girls is that they are typical teenagers. They change best friends every second day. Vain and measures of themselves, they are much behave as if they are older than. They love fashion, mobile phones and boys.”
Danielle Levitt, American photographer, was touring the United States in search of [...]
A big retrospective at the Foam Photography Museum of Amsterdam, showcases the ipnotic work of Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin. The exibition entitled “Pretty much everything” presents an idea of alienating Beauty, capable of undermining codes, renewing them through 300 pieces from 1985 to 2010: art, fashion, advertising campaigns for fashion houses of the likes [...]
