Art interviews, culture

When art releases life/Donatella Ferrini and her novel Sulle Gambe

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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 →

Franco Nicolosi/Sculpture is an immaterial body

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Riflessioni di Superficie, 2002

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 →

Daniela Daz Moretti/Art on the border between nostalgia and new identities

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by Carole Dazzi and Romina Ciulli

Liminale

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 →

Photography and matter: the visual imagery of Darren Harvey-Regan

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

In materia, 2023

The work of the English artist Darren Harvey-Regan returns a photographic imagery in which the simplicity of the material underlies a complexity of meaning and vice versa. In fact, his works create a connection between the represented subject, the photographic representation of the object and the exhibited photograph itself. This relationship generates an aesthetic tension that takes possession of photography and sculpture to deepen the themes of his artistic research. Read more →

Nicola Bertellotti/Taking a picture to reveal the beauty of our past

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

C’era una volta in Toscana

What is photography if not the ability to tell reality, interpreting what appears before our eyes through countless experiential dimensions, transforming a subjective gaze into a unique vision, revealing a secret aspect that will continue to remain so emotional? This is what it feels when we approach the works of Nicola Bertellotti, a Tuscan artist, who has transposed this conceptual methodology of the photographic medium to the places explored during his travels. Read more →