Why not?
by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur
What is the definition of irony for a calamity visionary as I have been defined? Dying? Or worse, disappearing mysteriously in one of the military campaigns conducted during what was, in fact, one of the bloodiest calamities in human history, the Second World War? But let’s go in order. My name is Franz Sedlacek and, rightly or wrongly, I was one of the main Austrian artists active between the two world wars.
by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi
Susan Sontag stated in her essay On Photography (1977): “No one has ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty”. In fact, photographic art-fact often invites us not just to reflect, but above all to glimpse a power in the visual image capable of arousing deep emotional reactions within us. As if, suddenly, through that shot, our gaze was able to see something that goes beyond custom, pushing us further. This is what happens in the book “Sulle gambe” by Donatella Ferrini, currently on pre-order on bookabook in a crowdfunding campain with the aim of publication, in which her young protagonist changes the painful approach to the vicissitudes of his life precisely after observing a picture. Let’s talk with the writer. Read more
by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi
The works of the artist Franco Nicolosi come from a deep intimate reflection. A sort of continuous sensorial interconnection where matter translates into an unexpected creative process, albeit meditative. An experiential practice, characterized by forms with unmistakable, sinuous and rhythmic traits. Forms that seem suspended between past and present, but that open to a constant and lasting dialogue. Here then are vases and drawings made with different materials, including clay, graphite, wood or ceramic. And, although each work follows a different specific path, they all eventually intertwine again, triggering reflections on concepts such as duplicity, symbolism, awareness and transformation. Read more
by Carole Dazzi and Romina Ciulli
Daniela Daz Moretti, sculptor, painter, is a multifaceted artist whose works shape a personal existential journey, making her deepest and most intimate side manifest. Above all, it is through the modeling of ceramics, her medium of choice, that Daz accompanies us along this growth path, crossing themes such as childhood and adulthood, the existential meaning of memory, the allegorical border between inner world and external reality. Read more
by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator
IroPeinto, stage name of Veronica Larotonda, is a visual artist who works using different pictorial languages, such as painting on water, the Ebrù technique and oil connected to metals. The focus of her work is centered on form, which becomes something incomprehensible and elusive, at times elusive. Furthermore, the relationship with dreams is fundamental, as it proves to be a field of investigation in correlation with the unconscious. She currently lives and works in Milan. Read more