“Universal existence, eternally unfinished and acephalic, a world like a bleeding wound, endlessly creating and destroying particular finite beings: it is in this sense that true universality is the death of God.” Georges Bataille The haruspex were priests in Ancient Rome who knew the “art of observation of the victims’ innards”, and used it to …
VNUTRENNOSTI _ Industrial Art for Industrial People Leggi altro »
Il silenzio esiste solo nei luoghi morti come le profondità dei deserti, il fondo degli abissi, lo spazio siderale. Nell’asepsi acustica delle stanze insonorizzate, oppure nella tomba. Negli anni Sessanta dicevano che il suono del silenzio è quello dell’incomunicabilità e dell’isolamento, che “cresce come un cancro”. In effetti nulla di essenziale accade in assenza di …
Fame, what you like is in the limo Fame, what you get is no tomorrow Fame, what you need you have to borrow Fame David Bowie, Fame How does it feel to be One of the beautiful people? How often have you been there? Often enough to know. What did you see, when you were …
An Image of Some Bright Eternity__ The artwork of David LaChapelle Leggi altro »
The bat, during its prodigious night-hunt, heard to the song of a nightingale. It came from a cage. The mammal asked to the bird the reason why he sang only during the night. The bird answered through the tears that one day, singing during the day, he was captured by a man and put into …
THE LAST JOURNEY _ The artwork of Femke Hiemstra Leggi altro »
Una camicia dadaista ripiegata. Dal suo colletto fuoriesce un piccolo copricapo ottocentesco da uomo. Un cappello da uomo rimpicciolito, portato sul davanti, come il cilindro di Wilhelmina Murray in Bram Stokers Dracula. Concepito per ragazze androgine dal cranio rasato, sulla nuca presenta una kippah ebraica, una piccola calotta strutturata da un cluster di papillon neri. …
KABALISTIC DADA-DANDY __ Il cappello mistico di Omar Nardi Leggi altro »
And it all got to damn much for me Just got to damn rough And I pushed away my plate And said boys I’ve had enough And I lay upon the table, another piece of meat And I open up my veins to them And said come on, eat !! Patti Smith, Summer Cannibals They …
THE REAL AMERICA: WELCOME TO HELL, KISS KIDS!! ___The artwork of Ron English Leggi altro »
There will never be Another one like you There will never be Another one who can Do the things you do The Doors, Shaman Blues I am Dionysus, generated by Zeus, and by the daughter of Cadmus, Semele, whose womb was melted by the flames of lightning. (…) So I have come, and I have taken …
Swooning at the River of Oblivion _ The art by Jennybird Alcantara Leggi altro »
Graphic elegance, tribal vocation, a subtle eroticism in a morbid anatomy style. The classical statues are quoted by amputations in Francesco D’Isa’s art. The limbs, severed by time, integrate in a living body, becoming decorations, baroque whirls, smoothed roundels like doll parts. Lately the protagonists of D’Isa’s works have abandoned their universe of damask and …
THIS WHOLE WORLD’S WILD AT HEART AND WEIRD ON TOP__ The exhibition of Francesco D’Isa Leggi altro »
“I am glad that you are going to Egypt at last, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “You have stayed too long here; but you must kiss me on the lips, for I love you.” “It is not to Egypt that I am going,” said the Swallow. “I am going to the House of Death. Death …
Andrea Paganini revisits the medieval tradition of bestiaries, in which human nature is inquired by one of its supposed opposites. Alien beings, and yet homologous to man in transversal ways and unmentionable manners, animals are one of the favourite themes of Art History, since the dawn of Palaeolithic. The informal technique of Paganini synthesizes the …
ALIENS ___ The exhibition “Walden” by Andrea Paganini Leggi altro »
“Naked, except for one sock and her charm bracelet, spread-eagled on the bed where my philter had felled her, so I foreglimpsed her; a velvet hair ribbon was still clutched in her hand; her honey-brown body, with the white negative image of a rudimentary swimsuit patterned against her tan, presented to me its pale breast …
VIOLATION _ WHO HURT THE ANGEL? ___ The artwork of Trevor Brown Leggi altro »
According to the ancient Japanese system of time measurement,the eighth hour, yatsudoki, corresponded to our 2 after midnight. Each Japanese hour was equal to two European hours,so there were only six hours instead of twelve: these six hours were counted backwards, i.e. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 … So the ninth hour corresponded to …
Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Full Metal Jacket Don’t contaminate the sacred semantic field of childhood with bad things. Show only the heroic, the humanitarian, the intelligent side of war. Don’t mix sex and power, because power is pure. And when you talk about religion, rinse …
DISNEYLAND UNDER ATTACK ___ The artwork of Max Papeschi Leggi altro »
You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me till I’m sane. Here’s someone in my head but it’s not me. And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear, you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes I’ll see you on the …
HOW I WISH YOU WERE HERE ___ The artwork of Alex Gross Leggi altro »
A court of creepy little creatures, run away from the Goblin City in Labyrinth. Big eyes, bat-wings, little sharp teeth in a Muppet Show snout. A long before the Corpse Bride, blue China flesh, stitches, missing pieces: they are dolls with too much experience, long limbs, yellow eyes. Like cats, or like a Betty Boop …
Trendy colouring, basic combining between black and yellow. Four wheel roller skates on ankle boots in 80’s Nike-style. Fingers which form victory sign, erecting on arms entwined as a DNA helix. Mark Gmehling represents gummy beings, a sort of humanity seen through the filter of a psychedelic drug which puzzles and reveals. Their limbs form …
1 in 10 seven- to eight-year-old child hears voices which aren’t really there. According to a Study by the University Medical Centre, Groningen, Netherlands Jeliza Rose, an eight-year-old girl, has got a father who dreams of the Vikings’ land and a mother who looks like Courtney Love, and she helps them both to shoot up …
Time changes form. On a perceptual level, with its upsurges and decelerations related to the mood, the frame of mind and the age of man, but not only. Also in its pure symbolic aspect.The self-devouring snake of the beginning, the giant who kills his sons, the deadly baroque hourglass, the persistences of memory of the …
In the horizon of big urban conglomerates, the spectators’ eye expects to see – beyond the spaces occupied by advertising – the canon of stencils, the quick letters in stick or bubble style, the wild multilevel labyrinths. Portraiture is a phenomenon mainly based in American metropolis, and deals with the private sphere of …
POP CLASSIC _ The exhibition of Pabo at Superplan, Berlin Leggi altro »