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Archive for February, 2010
Pascali, Castellani and Pomodoro at the Villa Mimbelli – Livorno – from 28 Feb. to 13 Mar. 2010
Feb 2010
Contemporary Art at the Villa Mimbelli of Livorno. The nineteenth-century mansion, home of the Museum G. Factors, will host on Thursday 28 January, in one of its sumptuous rooms, including a collection of works of art of the late twentieth century, owned by the municipality of Livorno and coming from the progressive contemporary art museum of Villa Maria. The red room of the ground floor will host nine works of Italian art belonging to the current poor dell’astrattismo and informal; currents were born between the 50s and 60s in the United States and Europe but to which our artists have More >
Grazia Leoncini At Circle Polifunzionale Convivio Lido di Camaiore – Lucca – from 3 to 28 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
“Grace Leoncini, observing the universe figural operating in Tuscany in recent decades, it is undoubtedly one of the greatest performers. Omitting an explanation that would obviously be long, it must be said that his face crayons, Road and go in particular to define the feminine figure, having a real continuity in expressive, highly personal. Born in Viareggio, he soon moved away from some premises – although thematically deal with them and love them into being independently – but what emerges from his works and what he calls “the continuity of life”, made abrupt gestures, never random. His ‘Femmes’ most competent More >
Luci d’Ombra (Shade Light) – Journey through the ancient rooms of the former psychiatric hospital Maggiano – Lucca – from 02 al 21 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
This is another trip in memory of those who now Nardini has accustomed us, through the wilds of the asylum, that structure once so powerful and almost afraid to strike today so gentle. The camera traces and investigates abandoned through the long corridors, large halls, the cells stained and the bathrooms devastated, traces of lives lived on the margins, where the line between normalcy and madness becomes really thin. Nearly thirty years after the law Basaglia, who had denounced the asylums closed in some way the conditions they lived in the mentally ill and nearly ten years after the resignation More >
Gualtiero Nativi – Aristocracy of sign, shape and color on display in Lari – Pisa – from January 31 to 28 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
Lari. It opens on Sunday 31 January at 17.00 at the Castello dei Vicari, and allocating LariArte, the retrospective exhibition of paintings of the master Walter Native titled “Aristocracy of sign, shape and color.” With this new show will start the exhibition schedule of 2010 of LariArte entitled “Paths”. The creation of this latest exhibition was made possible thanks to the synergy between associations (tourism association “ViviLari” cultural association “Il Castello”, “fuoriluogo – Contemporary Art”, a periodical of information “Reality” magazine, periodical “Art in Livorno “cultural association” La Ruga “) and private sponsors – chief among them the Old Tavern More >
CIELI (Heaven): Paintings & Drawings of the Academy of Art – Pisa – from January 30 to 26 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
“CIELI” is an exhibition of graphic works and paintings done by members at the Academy of Art in Pisa, conceived and organized by the Director: Prof. Bruno Pollacci. These works, both figurative and abstract, made of various techniques (pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, oil, computer art) and inspired by the theme of Heaven, meaning both physically and inwardly, symbolic. Soothing sunsets, but also turbulent skies, clouds and rough, blue and bright but also dark, intriguing and mysterious, able to lead visitors on a journey “air” inside the discovery of synergies between the aesthetics of the Heavens and the states’ s mind. More >
Seravezza Photography 2010 – James Nachtwey Inferno – eye witness – Lucca – from January 30 to 05 Apr. 2010
Feb 2010
It will open on 30 January 2010, the seventh edition of “Photography Seravezza” with the “Inferno” – the Eye Witness “by James Nachtwey, one of the most important war photographer contemporaries. The event takes place in the heart of Versilia Storica, is organized by the Foundation Medici lands in the splendid setting of Palazzo Medici and renewed in conjunction with FIAF (Italian Federation of Photographic Associations) and the Photography Club “The Most High” with the sponsorship from ‘ Department of Culture and Tourism in Seravezza, the Province of Lucca, Tuscany Region and Manta Art Prints.
Curated by Libero Musetti, Seravezza Photography More >
Eugenia Serafini Show, mythologies of the world – Florence – from January 27 to June 11 2010
Feb 2010
With “the Center of the Arts” is to propose a palpable analysis of tastes and cultural signals that Italian artists and foreign languages, educated and articulate with through powerful testimonies. Casket Hesiodic works and days open to reveal images that seem to keep it a secret, like an oracle, the center of the world. E ‘so that this project created and directed by the distinguished Historian Prof. Carlo Franza, Plan International, sampling a kind of map of the art world in which the nodes are presented most original Cultural History of Contemporary Art . The collective dreams suggest different images More >
Fuoriluogo (Misplaced) – Show Valente Taddei – Viareggio (LU) – from January 23 to 27 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
Born in Viareggio in 1964, graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, T has a large curriculum fair, personal and group shows both in Italy and abroad (Germany, Romania and Switzerland). He has collaborated on several occasions with the publisher Einaudi has created designs for the magazine See: and for the website in 2008 www.einaudi.it illustrated with 10 tables, the essay “Pandora, the first woman” by Jean-Pierre Vernant , one of the greatest scholars of myth and Greek culture, which appeared in the series ‘Archipelago’. In the gallery viareggina directed by Gianni Costa – with which the artist’s More >
The soul of the silence walls – Massa – from January 22 to 18 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010 was inaugurated the painting exhibition “The soul of the walls of silence” by Carlo Natali Cuturi Villa in Massa – Massa Carrara. The exhibition will be on display from Friday, January 22 to Thursday 18 February 2010.
“The words of homage whirling redundant, or wickedness no longer able to get involved in their world.
I decided to quit my cocoon listen to my heartbeat, the pulse of my veins full of warmth ie: my music. The inner longing for my roots laid the golden around me nell’incoscio.
I us the joy We torment I I us the fire
I painted More >
Engravings Livio Ceschin – Florence – from January 21 to 19 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
The Foundation The Bison Florence, inaugurates the new year Thursday, January 21, 2010 with an exhibition dedicated to the work of Livio graphics Ceschin one of the most skilled engravers Italian contemporaries. About thirty leaves and drypoint etching done showing the work of the artist from the nineties to date, and documenting lonely landscapes and poetic, often devoid of human presence.
Ceschin writes in the introduction to the catalog: “In all my recordings seem to correspond to a reality degrading, but not repulsive. What we see and we sense that exudes in which each element is sublimated by the sign, where More >
