Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Dry Hair With Oily Scalp

The beautiful exhibitions I have to think about Alexandra

Friday I visited the exhibition space at Alexandra Vogt Lungoscrostolo .
the beautiful setting and the same magic works. Bleached wood cabinets with doors instead of the back-lit images of Vogt. Lightbox steel "scattered" that show places on the floor outward ("the rough nature of the German") and inner artist. Horses as a permanent presence. But what I most admired is precisely the symbiosis between human and horse. The animals do not appear but seem to friends, playmates and adventures. But here we are certainly not the magical world of Disney. We are at a more stately where animal and man are simply beings that interact with each other without the filter of predefined roles. The horse seems ironic and indulgent part of the mise-Vogt, but go beyond the mere fiction to become a sincere expression of symbiotic complicity between the artist and his models. The installation of cabinets seems to emphasize this feeling. Perhaps the answers to the questions that arise are the images of Vogt's hidden inside closed cabinets and what we see out vividly illuminated only the illusion of having understood everything.
© Elena Fantini

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Can You Wax Over A Tattoo

What a location!

We are the forerunners of 4art us!
In fact, it seems that the Department of Culture of Reggio appreciated after our exhibition of 2009 and the space in which it was staged, this year has decided to lease the space above and assign it to a German artist and the group of Refoto. Well, that is, we are pleased to have opened new doors to art. Too bad that so much appreciation has not helped to find a place for us. But understand that nobody does anything for anyone (especially those without a card) with our usual enthusiasm, we have found an original and an exhibition organized by many visitors has been a success. 4 +2-1 has been set up in a private apartment for two weeks as if by magic has become an art gallery.

Forgive the presumption but I must admit that we have actually done a good job and we were able to convey our sense of enchantment. If nothing else, all visitors (and last visited us some real critical!) States are satisfied with our performance! Thank you all!

The exhibition includes photographs, video installations and declined the leitmotiv of the enchantment.
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream "Elena Fantini are a number of clubs in the balance between realism and fantasy. The shots, imbued with literary references, painting and film, have an eye that opens onto the thin line between the real and the imaginary.


Diego Parolini KOAN presents a project in which photography and video interact in fact a delicate balance of ambiguity and duplicity, in which the theme of enchantment is presented in its most cruel and less common sense, of illusion and sorcery, in which we lost.
Ab 8:10:09 is the title of the work of Bernini Karyn tells us that power, the incredible uniqueness of certain natural events. How they can give new life to our lives and change us, transform us over a few hours. Here everything revolves around this center, including our very existence.
In Vampa Simonetta Lodesani's Bazar objects of our childhood are perceived and experienced in a real way. There is no room for nostalgia, eyes looking forward are shown. Finally, Alessandra Saccani's childhood presented with the brand Monsieur Cuckoo.


Monday, May 17, 2010

Masters In Educational Counseling

I vote, you vote, he votes and wins the prince! Rinko Kawauchi

Starting from the 2009 festival of photography in Reggio, has started a competition for all those shows which fall within the circuit OFF (http://www . shot.eu-u / ). For each show, personal or collective, was given a reference code and may be voted by visitors and enthusiasts by sending an SMS from May 7 to June 13.

This year you can vote for their favorite shows.
Whoever receives the most votes, is included with a proposed 2011 edition of the event. Last year he won Sonia Panciroli with a gap of more than 300 votes this year than the others and the right to participate in the 2010 European Photography Projects section of institutional exhibitions.
Not bad, eh?
Oh, yeah. We offer a space that does not have to pay you an exhibition, keep it open for the entire month of European Photography, is in the center and is publicized, perhaps produce all their communication and maybe even pay you the print media and a ... dream?

you make sure that comes true?
Maybe having a good project?
Perhaps an exhibition that strikes visitors? Perhaps
be professional and passionate?
Well none of those qualities, my friends. We need many many friends and strangers passing by, or are asked to decide votarvi. And maybe a photographic work may be enough to please everyone, popular here! Pop Photo words!
This is a bit 'summary of the previous installments. Songs in the Italy of now we have all understood that he does not win the best, but who knows how to buy votes! It is certainly not the case of European photography, but if you bought is certainly not all deserve it!
Then there is the logistical question: If you are open throughout the period then you have more options. If you have made an ambitious project but can stay open only for a short time then spades!
What an effort to arrive early when the credit does not count! Why is quality and creativity that you speak. Maybe because the person who won was not quite worthy, and the day of reckoning has arrived this year. I am certain that Elio Grazioli (that much is at pains to maintain a high cultural level of the festival) will agree but maybe if it will keep for itself!
And if the organizers realized that perhaps we need to adjust the aim? What kind of a competition like this needs to critics and curators? Like all competitions that respect, anyway. We are not on television where you have to vote for their favorite singer or Squinzi prettier. Why lower the media? And if a team of experts "possibly non-local" if they went around the exhibits off to really see who ENCHANTS? Ah, it's true, then we would not be in Italy!

So VOTE, VOTE, LET U.S. VOTE

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Play Pokemon Deluge Hack



@ Rinko Kawauchi

for the first time I've seen some of the images of Rinko Kawauchi Japan flipping several photographic books in a library of Tokyo. I was struck by the light emanating their images. For some reason, especially logistics have not purchased the book. I re-met Rinko in a stand of photographic books, last Saturday, in the center of Reggio. And again I did not buy the book. Pity, because his images are to be read together, as the artist presents them in portfolios made. See individual images is like reading a poem scattered phrases.

as "minimalist" is certainly simplistic, because what they represent is a rich and multifaceted universe of signs. His style is very Japanese. There is a strong sense of purity, for the soul of things, out of respect for life and curious death. It brings to mind the poems of Basho, the haiku, stories of Banana Yoshimoto or Haruki Murakami. Remember all that light-skinned of the Japanese, who worked so hard to keeping milk. And the scented gardens of the Shinto temples, enchanting oasis scattered everywhere, even in the most chaotic cities.

Ode to Japan and then to its artists, capable of a difference refreshing and universal.

@ Rinko Kawauchi

Books published: Aila 2004; Hanabi 2001; Utatane 2001, Hanako 2001, 2005 and Cui Cui The Eyes The Ears 2005