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The Milanese artist Giovanni Frangi, utilizes colour as an emotional presence.
He is inspired by nature and transforms forests, lakes and leaves into places of the spirit, where the murmur of light breezes, the pelting of rain, thunderous sound of a waterfall are transformed into the soul’s yearning.
Now, this is a new artist for me and I would like to explore his works for you (whoever you are???!!)
Wood for Aron Demetz is what marble was for Canova (for example Le Tre Grazie) : natural, a friend and a beginning point (but also an arrival point) for his whole life. Get it?
Wow!
Contemporary art is now about video, installations and performance. Forget it, Aron is about chisels, punches and files: all tools for wood sculpture. He talks about people (like Valerio Berruti does), only using tree trunks, resins and chunks of wood.
Aron lives in Val Gardena, in the Italian Alps and one of my fav places, where forests and mountains condition your every movement. Kids playgrounds and toys, kitchen tools, the sculptures in the little villages: everything is made of wood. So for him, it was a natural choice to use wood as his medium.
He takes a trunk of wood, brings it into the studio, makes a sketch and turns on the chainsaw (this is not a chainsaw massacre, but a chainsaw creation!). Once he gets the volume that he likes, he redefines it with an axe and then with hot scalpels.
Compare this to Michelangelo Pistoletto, who takes a block of wood, slices an angle from it and adds mirrors.
The magic from a block of wood! The “Michelangelo” of wood sculpture, for as you know, Michi knew that the figure was inside the marble and had to be sculpted out from the true form that was inside.
Aron does this with his sculptures: they cry to be released from their natural state.
Well worth a visit.
NLakaì'pamux, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Functions of Art – artistic expression of time and place
The NLaka’pamux were master weavers who produced fine garments of elegant design. Woven clothing was used as a replacement when buckskin was scarce, in hot or rainy weather and was worn on certain ritual or ceremonial occasions. The bark and inner fibres of Indian-hemp, willow, cedar and sagebrush provided the main sources of weaving materials. A black coloured lichen (Bryoria fremontii) was used occasionally for vests and moccasins, and rushes and long stemmed grasses for capes. Animal fibres, especially mountain goat wool, were spun and woven into blankets and robes in some of the NLaka’pamux communities.
Woven fabric is made from the interlinking of threads. The warp is a set of long strands cut to the desired length and width of the fabric. The strands are bound together with a crossing thread called a weft. NLaka’pamux garments were usually woven with a technique called twining. To begin, a long weft thread is doubled and looped around the outside warp thread. The thread at the back is brought to the front, and the front thread moves to the back, crossing as they pass between each warp strand. Between each row the weft threads wrap around each other along the selvage, creating a neatly twisted edge.
“I used to remember my grandmother [spinning hemp]… especially in the evening when we’d be sitting around, or any time of the day when she needs to do it. She fixes it up, and then she rolls it and then keeps on adding more if they’re going to make rope, adding and rolling it, adding and rolling it.”
Mandy Brown, Lytton, British Columbia, 1992
MAXXI
Finally a new museum in Italy! One that is needed in this country of museums, but a NEW MUSEUM of New culture in a city of antiquities and museums every corner you turn. Instead of looking to the past, which they often do in Italy, its time to look to now and the future! Ecco the Maxxi Museum of the 21st century!
Two museums (one for art, one for aruchitecture), an auditorium, a library, a coffee shop, a restaurant, lots of gallery space for temporary exhibits or educational programming and to top it off, a huge piazza for live events!
(check Wall Street Jouranal Europe, “Rome turns to new art, the New Maxxi will try to return the city to its role as an art-world leader”)
The building is designed by archi-star Zaha Hadid,
Dancing Towers, Zaha Hadid
will open its doors May 30 ( I will NOT be there), after 3 days of opening ceremonies (I WISH I was there! I love these social occasions! I miss them now that I’m not opening exhibitions anymore – there are none!). Lots of exhibits are opening the new building, so instead of going only to the Pantheon, you have to see this place!
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Lake Garda
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Trentino Alto Adige
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Vernazza from above by trekking
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biking in the Dolomites
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