AURORE MARTIGNONI

StreetLight Studio was born

2011-10-18T02:01:00.001-07:00

BERNARD PLOSSU at the Photography Museum of Charleroi, Belgium

2011-04-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

Tribute to Charlie Chaplin today on Google's homepage

2011-04-16T08:10:00.000-07:00

Selected in the International Competition DesignMediterraneo

2011-03-08T03:00:00.000-08:00

PRESS RELEASE

Award, exposition and conference DesignMediterraneo|MediterraneanDesign2

Organizer: PAD (Palermodesign) supported the event by BCD e ADP Sponsoring institutions: ICUB_Ajuntament de Barcelona, Fundació Banc de
Sabadell

The II International Competition “DesignMediterraneo|Mediterranean Design2”, launched by PAD, closed on December 30th 2009. This year we had submitted projects from 21 different countries in the mediterranean area (Andorra, Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Israel, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Turkey) and abroad (Belgium, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Russian Federation, USA, Taiwan).
The contest judges are: Vanni Pasca president of Associazione PAD, coordinator of judges, Italy; Tevfik Balcioglu dean of the Fine Arts and Desing Faculty in Izmir University of Economics of Izmir, Turkey; Gabriele Basilico photographer, Italy; Giovanna Calvenzi photo editor and critic, Italy; Anna Calvera professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain; Mario Cresci graphic artist and photographer, Italy; Philippe Daverio art critic, professor at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy; Italo Lupi graphic designer, Italy; Wyssem Nochi designer, Lebanon, Eugenio Perazza entrepreneur, sole director of Magis, Italy; Alessio Planeta entrepreneur, CEO of Planeta, Italy; Ely Rozenberg designer, Israel.
The jury has selected 46 projects: ∙ 23intheproductdesignsection ∙ 12inthevisualsection ∙ 11inthephotographysection

Selected designers

product design
Anil Ahmet Asal Onur Mustak Cobanli Raúl Durá Younes Duret Jessica Fernandez Walter Giovanniello Alberto Guarriello Clémence Houpikian Filippo Mambretti Antoinette Mamo Renato Marsala Cesc Mestres Zeinab Mourad Filiz Palabiyik Paolo Paladini Vanessa Peng Yu Sofia Ponte Dario Rose Maysa Saccal A. Scribano, L.Banchini Mohammad Hossein Shokatpour Ezri Tarazi Adi Zaffran Weisler

visual design
Anny Comello, Karim Tomasino Asena Dirican Esra Gülmen Ryts Monet, Enrico De Napoli Luca Pantorno
Filip Roca Boris Shpeizman Giorgio Skoff Fabio Soana Rossella Valenti Angela Violino
and projects list
Novum Incognito The Rooots Mediplatea summer nights Chapeau Myshade
The nomadine Mnìmi Stow multifunctional storage Accianco Evenings outdoors Yash-Mak Mosaico Brakumo - Comfort Kit Lighthouse Working Unit Garden table Mono Tawla OpenMaji: portable chlorinator for water Universal Tricycle Z20 Hybrid Solar Energy Rawtating
See the sea La chiave del mediterraneo Shellphone Black Tide Propaganda Waves Design mediterraneo Just Add Water Il gioco dell’oca mediterranea The Mediterranean Emergency Mediterraneo on my mind Zoom In
Yarel Yair

photography
Arianna Cesselli
Delia Emmulo
Orit Freilich
Massimiliano Gatti
Vito Antonio Guglielmini
Aurore Martignoni
Alice Pedroletti
Ana Perkovic
Bettina Piccinini
Francesca Speranza
Ali Zogheib

EXPOSITION
The new mediterranean peace flag
Popeye Village Fermate il mondo...voglio scendere! Sabra made in Israel Crossroads Triple View Upward/Tripla visione verso l'alto Mediterranean between space and time metro project Underneath the sun Mediterranean Dream Torri dell'acqua Mediterranean Fun

The selected projects will participate in the exhibition "DesignMediterraneo|Mediterranean Design2", organized in Barcelona (Spain), which will host the conference "DesignMediterraneo|Mediterranean Design2".
After Istanbul, the city of Barcelona and the Association of Barcelona's designers have considered strategic host this year's prize PAD banned from participating in a cultural activity that enhances the design as an element of identity and economic development in the Mediterranean.
Award Ceremony and Exhibition Opening
DesignMediterraneo | MediterraneanDesign April 7, 2011, 19:00 - 21:30 H The exhibition will remain open until April 26

Conference
The Design in the development of the Mediterranean countries Friday, April 8, 2011 ore 9:30 to 14:30 Sala d'actes Design Hub
The debate will focus on the possible role/utility of the design in the development process of the Mediterranean countries, considering the ways in relation to the diversity between the countries and areas of this region.

Location
Design Hub DHUB Barcelona, C / Montcada 12; Barri del Raval, 08003 Barcelona Vestibule and lounge acts

What ‘s PAD
PAD is the online magazine dedicated to the world of design, visual and marketing. With its mailing list of over 20,000 people selected from among leading experts from the world of culture and the Italian and international design, stands as a means to bring the world of Mediterranean design companies and international producers, encouraging the exchange of creativity among countries toghether on the same artistic vitality.
About ADP
ADP, constitutes in 1978 in Barcelona, is the Catalan association of designers operating in visual communication, product, environment, theory and pedagogy and also design management, with the aim of disseminating the culture of design from a broad perspective of the sector's interests. ADP promotes the value of cultural and professional design, and works as an encouragement for the use of design in the corporate sector.

Sponsoring institutions and participants
ICUB Institut de Cultura de Barcelona. Ajuntament de Barcelona Fundació Banc de Sabadell Disseny HUB Barcelona BCD, Barcelona Centre de disseny
IEMED. Institut d'Estudis de la Mediterrània ADI Siclia, Associazione italiana per il Disegno Industriale.

Interesting traveling history...the one of Gary Arndt

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On March 13, 2007, I handed over the keys to my house, put my possessions in storage and headed out to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack, my laptop and a camera.

Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth.

Here are some of the things I've learned:

1) People are generally good. Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same.

2) The media lies. If you only learned about other countries from the news, you'd think the world was a horrible place. The media will always sensationalize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor when the assassination attempts on President José Ramos-Horta, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão in 2008. The stories in the news the next day were filed from Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, not Dili. It was all secondhand news. I was in Bangkok during the political protests this year, but you'd never have any idea they were taking places if you were not in the immediate area where the protests were taking place. The media makes us scared of the rest of the world, and we shouldn't be.

3) The world is boring. If there isn't a natural disaster or an armed conflict, most places will never even be mentioned in the news. When is the last time you've heard Laos or Oman mentioned in a news story? What makes for good news are exceptional events, not ordinary events. Most of the world, just like your neighborhood, is pretty boring. It can be amazingly interesting, but to the locals, they just go about living their lives.

4) People don't hate Americans. I haven't encountered a single case of anti-Americanism in the last three-and-a-half years. Not one. (And no, I don't tell people I am Canadian.) If anything, people are fascinated by Americans and want to know more about the US. This isn't to say they love our government or our policies, but they do not have an issue with Americans as people. Even in places you'd think would be very anti-American, such as the Middle East, I was welcomed by friendly people.

5) Americans aren't as ignorant as you might think. There is a stereotype that Americans don't know much about the rest of the world. There is some truth to that, but isn't as bad as you might believe. The reason this stereotype exists is because most other countries on Earth pay very close attention to American news and politics. Most people view our ignorance in terms of reciprocity: i.e. I know about your country, why don't you know about mine? The truth is, if you quizzed people about third-party countries other than the US, they are equally as ignorant. When I confronted one German man about this, I asked him who the Prime Minister of Japan was. He had no clue. The problem with America is that we suffer from the same problem as the rest of the world: an obsession with American news. The quality of news I read in other parts of the world is on a par with what you will hear on NPR.

6) Americans don't travel. This stereotype is true. Americans don't travel overseas as much as Brits, Dutch, Germans, Canadians or Scandinavians. There are some good reasons for this (big country, short vacation time) and bad ones (fear and ignorance). We don't have a gap year culture like they have in the UK and we don't tend to take vacations longer than a week. I can't think of a single place I visited where I met Americans in numbers anywhere close to our relative population.

7) The rest of the world isn't full of germs. Many people travel with their own supply of water and an industrial vat of hand sanitizer. I can say in full honestly that I have never used hand sanitizer or gone out of my way to avoid contact with germs during my travels. It is true that in many places you can get nasty illnesses from drinking untreated water, but I don't think this means you have be a traveling Howard Hughes. Unless you have a particularly weak immune system or other illness, I wouldn't worry too much about local bugs.

8) You don't need a lot stuff. Condensing my life down from a 3,000 sq/ft house to a backpack was a lesson in knowing what really matters. I found I could get by just fine without 97% of the things I had sitting around my home. Now, if I purchase something, I think long and hard about it because anything I buy I will have to physically carry around. Because I have fewer possessions, I am more likely to buy things of higher quality and durability.

9) Traveling doesn't have to be expensive. Yes, if you insist on staying in five-star hotels and luxury resorts, travel can be very expensive. However, it is possible to visit many parts of the world and only spend $10-30 per day. In addition to traveling cheap, you can also earn money on the road teaching English or working on an organic farm. I've met many people who have been able to travel on a little more than $1,000/month. I met one man from the Ukraine who spent a month in Egypt on $300.

10) Culture matters. Many of our ideas for rescuing other countries all depend on them having similar incentives, values and attitudes as people in the west. This is not always true. I am reminded of when I walked past a Burger King in Hong Kong that was full of flowers. It looked like someone was having a funeral at the restaurant. It turned out to be people sending flowers in celebration of their grand opening. Opening a business was a reason to celebrate. In Samoa, I had a discussion with a taxi driver about why there were so few businesses of any type on the island of Savai'i. He told me that 90% of what he made had to go to his village. He had no problem helping his village, but they took so much there was little incentive to work. Today the majority of the GDP of Samoa consists of remittances sent back from the US or New Zealand. It is hard to make aid policies work when the culture isn't in harmony with the aid donors expectations.

11) Culture changes. Many people go overseas expecting to have an "authentic" experience, which really means they want to confirm some stereotype they have in their mind of happy people living in huts and villages. They are often disappointed to find urban people with technology. Visiting a different place doesn't mean visiting a different time. It is the 21st Century, and most people live in it. They are as likely to wear traditional clothes as Americans are to wear stove top hats like Abraham Lincoln. Cultures have always changed as new ideas, religions, technologies sprang up and different cultures mingled and traded with each other. Today is no different.

12) Everyone is proud of where they are from. When you meet someone local in another country, most people will be quick to tell you something about their city/province/country that they are proud of. Pride and patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once in Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, "This is how we cross the street in PALAU!" Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride in his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this.

13) America and Canada share a common culture. This may irk Canadians, but we really do share a common North American culture. If you meet someone overseas, it is almost impossible to tell if they are American or Canadian unless they have a particularly strong accent, or they pronounce the letter "z." It is easier to tell where in England someone is from than it is to tell if someone is from Denver or Toronto. We would probably be better off referring to a "North American" culture than an "American" culture. What differences do exist (Quebec being the exception) are more like differences between states and regions of a similar country.

14) Most people have a deep desire to travel around the world. Not shocking, but every day I meet people who are fascinated by what I do and how I live. The desire to travel is there, but fears and excuses usually prevent people from doing it. I understand that few people can drop what they are doing and travel around the world for three years, but traveling overseas for even a few months is within the realm of possible for many people at some point in their lives. Even on an island in the middle of the Pacific, people who would probably never leave their home island talked to me of one day wishing they could see New York or London for themselves. I think the desire to explore and see new things is fundamental to the human experience.

15) You can find the internet almost everywhere. I have been surprised at where I've found internet access. I've seen remote villages in the Solomon Islands with a packet radio link to another island for their internet access. I've been at an internet cafe in the Marshall Islands that accessed the web via a geosynchronous satellite. I've seen lodges in the rainforest of Borneo hooked up to the web. I once counted 27 open wifi signals in Taipei on a rooftop. We truly live in a wired world.

16) In developing countries, government is usually the problem. I have been shocked at the level of corruption that exists in most developing countries. Even if it is technically a democracy, most nations are run by and for the benefit of the elites that control the institutions of power. Political killings, bribery, extortion and kickbacks are the norm in many places. There is little difference between the Mafia and the governments in some countries I've visited. The corruption in the Philippines was especially surprising. It isn't just the people at the top who are corrupt. I've seen cops shake people down on the street for money, cigarettes or booze.

17) English is becoming universal. I estimated that there were at least 35 native languages I would have had to have learned if I wanted to speak with locals in their own tongue. That does not include all the languages found in Papua New Guinea or Vanuatu or regional dialects. It is not possible for humans to learn that many languages. English has become the de facto second language for the world. We are almost to a point where there are only two languages you need to know: whatever your parents speak... and English. English has become so popular it has achieved an escape velocity outside of the control of the US and UK. Countries like Nigeria and India use it as a unifying language in their polyglot nations. Other countries in the Pacific do all their schooling in English because the market just isn't there to translate textbooks into Samoan or Tongan.

18) Modernization is not Westernization. Just because people use electricity and have running water doesn't mean they are abandoning their culture to embrace western values. Technology and culture are totally different. Japan and South Korea are thoroughly modern countries, but are also thoroughly Asian. Modernization will certainly change a culture (see #11 above), but that doesn't mean they are trying to mimic the West.

19) We view other nations by a different set of criteria than we view ourselves. On the left, people who struggle the hardest for social change, decry changes in other countries that they view as a result of globalization. On the right, people who want to bring democracy to other countries would be up in arms at the suggestion that another country try to institute change in the US. In both cases, other nations are viewed by a different set of rules than we view ourselves. I don't think most people around the world want the help or pity of the West. At best, they would like us to do no harm.

20) Everyone should travel. At some point in your life, whether it is after college or when you retire, everyone should take some extended trip outside of their own country. The only way to really have a sense of how the world works is to see it yourself.

From Bologna to Mali: the Wacky Racers at Dogon Challenge 2010, “non tutti i Mali vengono per nuocere”

2010-12-06T14:15:00.000-08:00

Fun and a bit of craziness to help the development of humanitarian projects for Dogon population

A group of crazy friends, the passion for traveling on the road and the desire to try to help concretely the development of humanitarian projects, without simply writing a cheque. These are the ingredients which prompt Wacky Racers, a group of non professional drivers (freely inspired by the successful characters created by Hanna&Barbera during the 60s) to put themselves on the line to live a breathtaking adventure discovering new places, new worlds, and new ways of traveling, but above all with the aim of supporting charity projects in developing countries.

Aurore Martignoni, 31 years old, is Italo-belgian and she is the international member of the team. She is a professional photographer, and she lives and works in Bologna, even if her job brings her all over the word. A photography inspired by the reportage and travels. These are her main passions, and she will be able to combine them during this experience, because, as she says “ the photography speaks to eyes, but in particular to minds”, and in this journey she certainly will be able to immortalize places, environments and people which have many emotions to convey . She will leave with Simona, Matteo and Stefania: the Wacky Racers quartet ships in this crazy and thrilling trip with the enthusiasm of the discovering and the will to put itself on the line.
“With this experience I will have the possibility to match my passions and the humanitarian aspect. Being able to link travel, photography and a charity work is a chance I couldn’t miss: I’m ready and excited about this adventure.”

The first challenge for the Wacky Racers will be the Dogon Challenge 2010, a crazy race to discover the heart of the continent where everything was born: Africa. Leaving from Milan on 26th of December, in less then 15 days of traveling, forgiving the European asphalt roads and entering with hot tyres Morocco roads, the sandy trails of West Sahara and Mauritania, after a rapid transit in Senegal to visit the final destination of the famous Paris-Dakar, they will cross the Savana to head towards Mali’s capital city: Bamako. Here the car used by the team during the trip, a 1997 Fiat Punto 55S, retrieved on Orobiche Alps in Temù, will be gifted to the ONLUS Association Abarekà Nandrèe with the amount of money that the team will have collected with the help of their sponsors and supporters.
Charity is indeed the most important aspect of this crazy race, which makes it even more special and incredibly unique.
Abarekà Nandrée is a laical association wholly formed by volunteers, apolitical and based on self-financing. From 1999 it deals with international cooperation and it is very active in Africa, where it has realized a lot of projects in healthy and educational fields, as well as initiatives of cultural exchange with some italian schools.
Wacky Racers, as well as each team participating at Dogon Challenge, commits itself to donate at least 500 € to the association and this amount, together with the sum gained with the car selling, will be used to help building a school in Bamako. Obviously more funds they can raise, more projects can be delivered, that's why the team is looking for firms and private citizens who want to contribute to the realization of their initiative and assure as much help as possible to Abarekà Nandrée.

To know more about how to sponsor and support the team, about the schedule of events and the ways created for the fund-raising, consult the site www.wackyracers.it !!

Dark light

2010-12-03T17:07:00.000-08:00

After having won the Artists Wanted's Exposure 2008 competition, blind photographer Pete Eckert has been featured in TIME Magazine, showed in numerous exhibitions and now, is being featured in HBO's documentary Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers, premiering tonight November 17th at 8pm on HBO. Produced by Academy Award-winning Neil Leifer (photographer and film director) and Corinne Marrinan, Dark Light "reveals the fascinating landscapes of the internal world of the blind". Check out Pete's story in the video.
Congrats, Pete!

www.vimeo.com/14179976

EWL photo competition, second place

2010-10-01T09:05:00.000-07:00

A survey on the gender gap shows that even today no country has still managed to eradicate gender discrimination. Italy holds the negative record in terms of participation and economic opportunities.
This research comes from here; a journey through stories of women who have chosen to live on "male" professions or holding positions that society normally attributes to the "stronger sex". This project doesn't come from a feminist polemic, but from an almost anthropological reflection on the role of women in the world of contemporary work. Working Girls becomes a portrait of society today, with the point of view of different kind of women.
Each photograph is accompanied by a brief "identity card" which explains the character and its characteristics, also trying to emphasize the perception that everyone has of their job. Some of these works are really masculine, but others are not anymore, and some are simply different and considered male by some people and ambivalent by some others. This analysis then leads to a discussion about where the male starts and female ends, but also and mainly on the assumptions that underlie those ideas.
The images are deliberately easy to understand but they have all a peculiar atmosphere, environment, light and character. The story works in serial but also individually.
The project ends with my portrait, the photo-reporter, a job that I love and that I have chosen, but, like others in the project, involves discomfort and contraindications for a girl like me.

Bologna-Palazzo d’Accursio- Photos Exhibition

2010-10-01T07:46:00.000-07:00

The Italian and Belgian cultural association “Bologna-Bruxelles A/R” organizes, from 6th to 23rd October 2010 at Palazzo d’Accursio in Bologna, a photos exhibition dedicated to the suggestive Flemish city of Bruges whose title is “Bruges, water mirrors”.
This city, grown up on the water of its canals and whose historic centre belongs to the cultural heritage of UNESCO, is today the most visited of Belgium.
In addition to my photographs will be presented also the works of Marco Ziglioli and those of Andreas Figulus, an Umbrian potter.

In this photographic study I tried to make people want to discover curiosities and details of this wonderful city, its touristic aspect but also its more intimate and ordinary one.
Bruges is studied through the rhythm of colours and movements, snatched out of the fleeting reality by the camera objective to make them eternal.
A different look on a city that has already been shown in every little corner.

2010-08-17T11:03:00.001-07:00

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ART IS COMMUNICATION

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PORTFOLIO

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My photographical portfolio is now available at this link:

http://www.blurb.com/books/1226191

I am waiting for your comments and don't hesitate to buy it...the price is so democratical!

FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE MERC'ARTE CYCLE IN BOLOGNA

2009-12-11T01:15:00.001-08:00

Télétourisme at the mask museum of Binche

2009-11-27T13:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/teletourisme#p/u/8/lNhtLhzfb6s

CaseAperte is ON ArteFiera OFF

2009-11-26T00:25:00.001-08:00

"Carnet de voyage. En quête d'impressions" colloque

2009-11-25T02:36:00.000-08:00

Ce samedi 28 novembre, à partir de 10h00, le musée vous propose de participer à une journée colloque qui se terminera par une représentation de théâtre d’ombres.

Programme :
10h00 : Conférence « Carnet de voyage » par Aurore Martignoni – photographe italo-belge

11h00 : Conférence « Les masques du Tibet » par François Pannier - commissaire de l’exposition « Masques de l’Himalaya » Fondation Bernard et Caroline de Watteville, Martigny – Suisse

12h00 : Dîner à la cafétéria du musée

14h00 : Visite commentée de l’exposition « Carnet de voyage, en quête d’impressions » par Emilie Botteldoorn – collaboratrice scientifique

16h00 : Théâtre d’ombres - troupe Shadow Theatre Huanxian, de la Province de Gansu (nord-ouest de la Chine), au théâtre communal

Tarif :
Colloque + théâtre (avec repas) : 22€
Prix réduit (membre, guide, étudiant, chômeur) : 19€
Colloque + théâtre (sans repas) : 15€
Prix réduit (membre, guide, étudiant, chômeur) : 12€
Colloque : 8€
Prix réduit (membre, guide, étudiant, chômeur) : 5€
Réservation souhaitée pour le lundi 23 novembre au plus tard.

Renseignements pratiques

Musée international du Carnaval et du Masque
Rue Saint Moustier, 10
7130 Binche
064 33 57 41 – 064 23 89 21 – administration@museedumasque.be

EUROPALIA.CHINA, MUSEE DU MASQUE, BINCHE, BELGIQUE

2009-10-14T01:56:00.000-07:00

Premio Terna 2009

2009-10-12T01:24:00.001-07:00

http://www.premioterna.it/it/scheda/le-monde-dans-une-bulle-de-savon

Discover my picture...vote for me if you like it and don't hesitate to give me your comments. Make some "advertising" for me if you like because there is an artist residence in New York to win! That would give me the opportunity to go on with my art research and to develop my skills.

Thanks a lot to all for you help and you artistical sensibility ...

CaseAperte *11

2009-09-18T02:58:00.001-07:00

EcoArtProject

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http://www.ecoartproject.org/auroremartignoni.php

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www.auroremartignoni.com

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Personal website online soon!

Who's afraid of the dark?!

2009-06-09T08:41:00.001-07:00

BOLOGNA CITY OF ART & YOUNG ARTISTS

2009-04-18T07:44:00.001-07:00

BOLOGNA CITY OF ART & YOUNG ARTISTS

2009-03-22T06:05:00.001-07:00

Bernard Plossu - Le pays des paysages

2009-03-11T11:00:00.001-07:00

Pete Levin after the italian gig of december :-)

2009-02-14T04:25:00.001-08:00

Caption at the upper left: "Choose your Xmas good deed carefully. If you are foreign musicians on tour in Italy, something could go wrong..."

Pete: " Hey Doctor, wait a moment. I just wanted to donate my old HAMMOND organ! I am Pete Levin the keyboard player!"

The doctor: "Yeah, right and I am Santa Claus. Before you promised and then you came back. Let's go to the surgery room!"

MADRID - MADPOSTER

2009-01-28T07:13:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine Libertine! In collaboration with CaseAperte

2009-01-22T01:31:00.001-08:00

FOURTEEN FACES OF ART - ARTEFIERA OFF

2009-01-21T02:50:00.000-08:00

FOURTEEN FACES, an exhibition about the metamorphosis of the human face.

The artists: Gabriele Bartoletti, Rita Chessa, Luigi Dati, Raimondo Galeano, Enrico Ingenito, Roberto Marnica, Aurore Martignoni, Luigi Mastrangelo, Giovanni Pedullà, Vittoria Perzan, Leonardo Santoli, Franco Savignano, Gabriele Talarico, Irene Zangheri, experiment the art of interpreting the human nature by its appearance, the mutations of the face, the soul, the identity and perhaps another new world with its progressive decline from where to begin to recreate a humanity still alive. We imagine the masks as interfaces representing various frames of mind where the face reveals its numerous meanings; the face as a choosing possibility between a single or a multiple identity, the face lived as a border among two or more aspects, a epidermic research about the various possibilities of change, manipulation and reinvention.

SALA CELESTE, Via Castiglione 41, Bologna

Dal 21 al 31 gennaio

18:00-19:00 every day

Other schedule only on appointments

Free entrance

Organized by: Teatro Arte & Spettacolo Scarl,

Ars.Creativ@Associazione Culturale

In collaboration with Il Campo delle Fragole

2008-12-11T09:11:00.000-08:00

Exhibition "Visions", June 12th 2008, Naples

2008-05-14T13:24:00.000-07:00

We began presenting "exhibitions deep inside people's lives" in Bologna. The "bolognese" public lived rich moments of cultural exchange in atypical situations, inside the houses. Yes, just inside the houses inhabited until the day before and full again the day after. A small but important art parenthesis in the life of the people.

Today the idea of exporting these brackets was born. As a result the art throughout Italy, art by young people and for the young but not only. 100% art, an event, an art installation, another art's open house.
Naples after Bologna welcomes art in these meetings of culture where young and promising talents, backed by more established artists that offer their studies, their researches and artistic side that speak for themselves about sensitive elements of society.
In this exhibition-event will appear six artists. All of them working with photography, with negative and positive, with the soul trapped on the printed paper, as in most ancestral beliefs.

The visitor will discover six different languages. All of them are an invitation to discover the differences, but the expression is the same as a portrait of themselves.
Our proposal is to see to remember, remember to see inside yourself.

Seeing Karin Andersen and discover her game, her key to open the door of a parallel dimension, populated by strange creatures, elves, animals that integrate everyday life, to dream with open eyes.

Seeing Michele Brancati and cross his fast eyes, imperceptible in the underground, in private moments, with low light and steady hand, the darkness of underground enlightened to enjoy.

Seeing Aurore Martignoni is discovering a complex research about the far and the different. She translates shapes and situations ... the too small to be seen, the too large to be embraced, the too far to be reached.

Seeing Riccardo Angelini is slipping in a column of water that turns bright, his research on light and image is as fast as birth and death each time and is the first thing you see and the last that you will ever forget, to help you build your new world.

Seeing Desideria Burgio is finding ourselves in impersonal and statical bodies, imaginating a face that could be ours or perhaps herself.
Feeling attracted is normal; each of her works brings us to a particular that we know but we don't know where we have seen it. We can almost think of ourselves being the "subject-object" but then we realized we are not and we remember that every non-headed subject lives is own life.

Seeing Simona Gavioli is thinking about the material, on life and on all possible convergences, on Gods and their will; the research is between good and evil, between victory and loss, on the fate that commands us and send us messages. As a drop that falls on the skin can follow different directions endlessly, life, even a ship's life, can stop anywhere and until that day we cannot know where it will happen.

The exhibition is proposed in the suggestive architecture home-studio of Antonio Martiniello, the studio "KELLER" where art seems to find roots as the broom on the slopes of Vesuvius.

During the evening you will enjoy a cocktail Bellini offered by the company Canella.

Photography award Animan Canon 2008

2008-05-12T15:21:00.000-07:00

Please visit the website of the magazine Animan, les routes du monde (www.animan.com) where you can see one of my pictures (you can get it directly clicking on the title of this topic).
If you like it please vote for me!!!
Thanks a lot!

"Artist's eggs" project

2008-03-19T11:36:00.000-07:00

Eggs of a thousand years.

According to an ancient imperial Chinese tradition courtiers gave "eggs of a thousand years" to the emperor. Eggs were meant to be preserved, intact in a time almost unlimited - "a thousand years" - to lead a seal of dignity that was extended along the generations of dynasties. These were important eggs, eggs that are not intended to be consumed, as happened to those of Piero Manzoni. If the first case they feed the spirit, in the second case they feed the body, if the first didn't waste, the residues of the second was controversial: ordinary rubbish, on the one hand by "public", "shit artist" on the other hand, if nutritionally completing the cycle of the man who has signed with his thumb prints.

Our eggs are different, greatly different. These are ostrich eggs, or rather, the shells of ostrich eggs. Their content has been dispersed, helping to resolve a section of the food chain. They have been "eaten". The shell remains as a support, as a surface, like plastic volume, for a serie of composite artists' decorated. Here appears the word "decoration" disrespectful, irreverent, diminutive. Practices of ornament are serious things! These eggs are a media unit, equivalent in surface and volume, to any surface on which artists could express themselves in a totally autonomous and free way. It is a game, a gamble, a chance. This "eggs gathering" is not imaginable as something to "hang" to a wall. It configures rather a collection of objects that - ideally - could grow to excess: as if Bruno Fava, the creator of the project, with the help of some friends artists, had decided to isolate the magical and disturbing presence at the same time as Piero placed above the head of the Virgin in the "Pala di Brera". This egg and his mystical perspective, now becomes - with some variation, particularly the dimension - a real plastic support, on which every artist has confronted his art on a original space, perhaps improper, but still impressive. On these eggs, artists tell "stories", so different one from the others.

Rather than to decorate eggs on a Easter schedule, this project suggests a much more archaic practice: the Attic tradition that starts to decorate pottery with mythological scenes of classic Greece. A sort of "degree zero" of painting. Also, egg and zero are intimately linked graphically. The egg is a sacred symbol in the cosmogonies of many people and, as such, it is very often mentioned in mythologies, precisely because the egg incorporates the biological mystery and the secret of being. You can say that nothing is a latent which produces something active, living in the same way as a "zero" that means nothing and that figures as beginning of numerical progression. It doesn't matter, then, if the egg is of a hen or an ostrich: it is the emblem alchemy that incorporates all levels of the opus' construction. Art not only gives dignity to that symbol, but he does live… "for a thousand years".

Bruno Bandini

Preparing a trip

2008-03-18T14:39:00.000-07:00

An adventurous trip requires a lot of time, organization and curiosity.
Just a small idea of the timing!

Day D - 6 months: Application for sabbatical year or quit your job
Vaccinations
Try to find a suitable travel-partner (optional)
Seeking sponsors and begin to inform everybody about your trip
Join http://www.couchsurfing.com/ for the guest issue

Day D - 5 months: Creating the list of to-do things and equipment to pack.
Make Passport, International driving License, or at least check the expiration dates!

Day D - 4 months: Select Travel Insurance company
Organize your addresses in a file
Creating your Blog / Website

Day D - 3 months: Upgrade the ceiling of your bank account, make a "Mastercard"
Get an "obsolete" credit card for the case of theft
Make a Medical check-up + Dentist

Day D - 2 months: Construct internal pockets for pants and shorts
Short-list of things still missing
Make a "in case of emergency" paper containing blood type, allergies and travel insurance
Organize parties and family visits
Finish Blog / Website
Finish download music on iPod
Making some new photos (for documents, visas)
Printing business cards
More Vaccinations

Day D - 1 month: Subscribe to travel insurance chosen
Make some photocopies of official papers and give a copie to trusty people remaining in Italy (in my case)
Scanning most important traveling documents (for instance passport and plane ticket) for storage on USB and in the mailbox
Make a list of credit cards numbers and emergency phone numbers for credit card block, ... (just in case)
Make a list of things you may need and you didn't take, but that could be sent: Books, Medicine,...
Finish Vaccinations

Day D - 0: Go on reading good quality guides
Learning the local language ... some bases can still help!
Answer to all late e-mails and think about doing everything that cannot wait for a month or two. Check the photo material and pack films in a anti X-ray bag
Close your bag and try to rest for not starting the trip on your knees!

Have a nice trip!

Art for Women's day

2008-03-05T14:45:00.000-08:00

Inauguration: Saturday March the 8th 2008 5.00 PM

On Saturday March the 8th 2008 at 5 PM in the presence of the artists: Joe Basile, Raimondo Galeano, Simona Gavioli, Leonardo Greco, Giorgio Lupattelli, Aurore Martignoni, Luigi Mastrangelo, Gianni Pedullà, Santoli Leonardo, Franco Savignano, Gaia Scaramella, Squp, the Cultural Association EventiamoArte for ATCOM Association Trapiantati Heart Hospital of St. Orsula Malpighi Bologna inaugurate a collective exhibition dedicated to the whole feminine universe. A rich selection of works of the most representative artists will be displayed . The event will take place at the beauty center "SOL ONE" Via Calori 9/b Bologna.

EventiamoArte's principal objective is to bring art in places where it is not usual to find it, areas where people can relax and quietly enjoy a moment of culture as well as a good coffee or a good dinner. The Association enters beauty salons, restaurants, galleries, shops and all those areas of everyday life where we may, for once, turn a look at the wall to find something different from a simple mirror.

EventiamoArte: an aesthetic slogan that recalls devotion for ideals where passion doesn't burn reason and where reason is not a brake onto passion. No obstacles or prohibitions, the humanbeing never get in conflict with himself. The art is the path and the mouth of a stream of emotion and intellect at the same time, the work of art makes us feel strongly alive: sensations, feelings mixed together to enrich each other, the thought has a thousand colors and nuances and understanding is a rainbow over a vast horizon. Art is "to event", art must question our existence, art must speak to our hearts and our minds, art must draw our eyes and our soul, art must awake our feelings and causing our feelings...

EventiamoArte-Cultural Association
President Danilo Galeano
Via delle Lame, 60
40122 Bologna
www.eventiamoarte.org
Info@eventiamoarte.org
Phone +39329 6669925

CaseAperte, exhibition - Bologna

2008-02-03T16:25:00.000-08:00

February, Saturday the 9th 2008 from 6 PM

On February the 9th, in the presence of the artists Karin Andersen, Lorenzo De Boni, Raimondo Galeano, Simona Gavioli, Giorgio Lupatelli, Aurore Martignoni, Luigi Mastrangelo, Gianni Pedullà, Thomas Raffoni, Leonardo Santoli, Stefano Scippa, Squp, Beatrice Zerbini, CaseAperte inaugurates an exhibition, a concert and a poetry reading.

A rich selection of the most significant works of these artists will be displayed.

The event will take place at 10 Strada Maggiore, at Claudio Succi's house and will be divided between two apartments with the access to one of the most beautiful terraces in Bologna where it seems that you can touch the two towers "Asinelli & Garisenda ".

In the first house the Galeano Staff will exhibit. Well-known group of artists already consecrated on the national and international scene, they will be accompanied by Marcello and his band; in the second exhibit two young emerging photographers Aurore and Tommaso while Beatrice will interprets her verses on the terrace, where you can also admire an exciting sculptural installation.
Of course our inevitable sponsors "Carpenè Malvolti" and "Pastry Laganà" will make the evening even more pleasant.

CaseAperte is an exhibition taking place in a normal house, only for an evening.
A short break in our so-quick lifes.
Stopping an idea, finding a place suitable to it, enabling a house to become a one-night gallery showing personal artistical productions to the feelings of other people.
SEEING-LISTENING-TALKING.
Concepts.
Our invitation gives space to a new form of solidarity of classical expressions of art.
PAINTING-SCULPTURE-MUSIC-POETRY-PHOTOGRAPHY.
Our program loves living in people's lives.
A concert, a living room. A kitchen. A house, an exhibition.

Day D - 5

2008-02-02T02:16:00.000-08:00

Work still in progress ... From Wednesday we could move in.

My house is a jungle

2008-01-31T11:59:00.000-08:00

In these days I discovered that there is an even greater challenge of an expedition's organization: buying a house, my first house, or rather our first house ...
We are flooded with dust, always in the middle of paint and brushes, broken tiles and dust again ...
Sometimes I think that we won't never see the end ... but soon I'm leaving for China and we should finish this works soon.
These events explain the slowdown of this blog. SoonI'll put online the pictures of our castle! Today we worked at the positioning of beautiful tiles "cobalt blue" on the wall of the kitchen.
Meet up for the next episode!

My blog speaks english!!

2008-01-23T17:28:00.000-08:00

Thanks to "Sitemeter"(and here again thanks to the fabulous www.elofasojo.blogspot.com blog, a jewel of information for beginners) I can finally understand who reads this blog. Now on for 15 days, I have already reached 240 visits, with an average of 8 minutes for each visit!
As you can see on the map visitors are coming from every continent ... One more reason to make this blog multilingual!
I was expecting visits from Belgium, some from France, Canada, the United States, including Burkina Faso ... but Turkey, Brazile, India, Chile, Holland, Germany, Spain, Danimarka, Portugal, Australia, ... were surprises!
So, as this blog is devoted to travel and so internationality, it was then time to make it available in different languages ... Italian was obvious now that is my homeland of adoption, French also because I'm native French ... Otherwise how do my family manage to follow me in my travels? Then English is THE traveller's language by excellence!
When will be the Chinese version available?

Sardinian Eldorado

2008-01-16T07:11:00.000-08:00

Travel Tips - Piscinas, Ingurtosu (south west of Sardinia)

A two hundred kilometres coastline stretching between Oristano's gulf and almost to Cape "Teulada" where you can discover some of the most beautiful beaches on the island ... still not touched by tourism, "because" of the tortuous and only access road . A paradise for off-road drivers!
Among these beaches you discover then the largest desert of Sardinia, formerly attached to the super continent GONDWANA, whose fragments are now South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India.
Immersed lands for long periods which made them very rich from a geological point of view, allowing the development of the next mining activities.
A unique place where the green and generous landscapes alternates to long sandy beaches and mines, now uninhabited. A wild environment where it is easy to spot the rare Sardinian deer, indigenous species on the island.
Following the curves of the only and dusty road you find the imposing structure of the "Prince Laveria Tomaso." Around 1890 this structure was among the most technologically advanced, the entire system of Montevecchio was presented at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, causing admiration and amazement.
Still following the SS126 you find the mine of "Ingurtosu", fascinating place and witness of the past.
As the road proceeds, the landscape become increasingly arid and yellow to Piscinas and its beautiful dunes.
We decide to stop to enjoy the silence and the sound of waves.
Thanks to the information of the - very kind - director of the hotel "Le Dune" (closed for renovation) we moved towards Arbus where we have found lodging in a house overlooking the sea and we ate in the unique restaurant of the village, opened only and especially for us!

Restaurant il Corsaro Nero - http://www.ristoranteilcorsaronero.it/
Costaverde Portu Maga - 09031 Arbus (CA) tel. Costaverde Portu Maga - 09031 Arbus (CA) tel. +39 070 977236 cell. +39070 977236 Cell. +39 339 5260603 +39339 5260603

Wonderful trip, especially recommended off-season although it is said that even in summer there are not too many tourists!

PS: We took back the car the next day at dawn to Olbia to take the ferry and we passed by an absolutely incredible place ... totally forgotten by the guides written on Sardinia: Marceddì. I promised to myself to turn back there without having time counted.

Thought

2008-01-14T00:52:00.000-08:00

Slowly dies who become a slave of habit, repeating each day the same routine, taking the same road everyday, who never change brand, who doesn't take risk and doesn't change colors of clothes, who doesn't explain to who doesn't know. Slowly dies who avoid a passion, who prefer black and white and dots on the "i" rather than a set of emotions, those that make your eyes light up, those that make a yawn become a smile, those that make the heart beat before errors or feelings.n
Slowly dies who doesn't overturn the table, who is unhappy about work, who doesn't prefer uncertain things instead of certain things to chase a dream, who doesn't allow to himself at least once in his lifetime to escape to recommendations that make sense.
Slowly dies who doesn't travel, who doesn't read, who doesn't listen to music, who doesn't find grace in himself. Slowly dies who destroy the self-respect; who passes the all day complaining about bad luck or incessant rain. Slowly dies who give up a project before starting, who doesn't ask questions about topics that do not know, those who doesn't respond when asked for something they know well.
Avoid death at small doses, always remembering that being alive requires an effort far greater than the mere fact of breathing. Only ardent patience lead to the splendid achievement of happiness.
(P. Neruda)

Arrival in Sardinia

2007-12-21T11:48:00.000-08:00

A hunt for new images ...
I will go fishing underwater with Paolo and add new pictures soon!

Plus I'll begin to develop seriously the topic of underwater photography with the new Nikonos-V I found under the tree!

Thanks Santa Claus ;-)

Back to Belgium

2007-12-17T12:45:00.000-08:00

A "under zero" temperature is waiting for me outside the airport.
It is the first time that I come back home before Xmas and that I will remain in Italy during the season's holiday.
In my week program: taking pictures, have some rest and working hard to the "B plan".
News very soon!!

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - Photo Project and anthropological research

2007-12-05T12:50:00.000-08:00

It was perhaps a risky choice to leave everything and start again on new basis ... But I think it was right to do so, although for now the effort is great and the results are seen slowly.
In fact, after testing the thrill of continuous stress, but also the "money security" at the end of the month, I go back once again to my passions and I find back some leisure time that now makes me come dizzy.
I have chosen to make what I want in my life and not what everyone thinks is right. After years of words (blah-blah-blah) I finally decide to become a real traveller and discover the world that surrounds me and its most unusual aspects. It is a hard and courageous choice of life and I don't know exactly where it will lead, but I think it is worth to bet! To document my travels, I will be equipped with video camera (to be more adapted to the the market's demand) and my camera (closer to me).
I choose then to make a profession where time passing is no more important, indeed, time spent thinking is crucial and becomes precious ... but no longer because there are so many things to do in a short time but because the only thing you need to do must be studied in the best possible way. Then the "slowness" becomes the focus of the activity.
The meter of success of my "career" will no longer be calculated on the basis of the liability acquired with time and with the increases of salary but, more simply, on the success with the public and the joy read in the eyes of people I'll meet day after day along my path ...
To accompany me in this crazy but human bet is Alessandra Soresina (www.alessandrasoresina.com) who lived five years in solitary african places where she studied lions. An intense activity that taught her to use the camera in the worst condition ever and also to appreciate the pureness of simple moments.

Première - Photo exhibition

2007-11-27T12:52:00.000-08:00

Bologna, via Zamboni 1, under the two towers

"It was summertime but yet in the boat, in the middle of the sea, I was cold with all the splashing water.
The only light was a wire moon in the sky.
I shot without flash, with an external source of light pointed toward the fresh fish as it would have been the scene of the crime in a '30s crime"

Tuesday November 27, 2007 - starting 20.30
Click here to read the critic of Denitza Nedkova, Art Expert