Maximum Rest care staff Hans Hartung

Will not be a personal matter that Hans Hartung cured by Massimo Rested at the Gallery otto9cinque Limen of Rome, but a deepening personal and artistic life of a character out of the ordinary as Hartung. A path that focuses on the period from 1971 to 1976, years in which Hartung will have a "feeling of renewal, as if a new force, a new youth I have been granted". It also mentions his initial research towards a balanced disarmonicità, first found in the figurative and the abstract, towards what he called "rhythm and momentum boost that I do not understand completely that when I grab, I encircle, which for a moment that I would like to see last forever". Research influenced by his private life, including the fight against Nazism, travel Italy, tormented his relations and his love for art masters such as Rembrandt, Nolde and Kokoschka. The catalogue of the exhibition, therefore, will focus on the historical greatness of German artist with biographical documents and works of rare knowledge.

Hans Hartung. Works 1971-1976

7 ^ day of contemporary art

On the occasion of the seventh day of contemporary art promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums), the municipality of Fronto (PU), offers the first part of the exhibition of Visual Arts Catello 10 e lode.

Among the many interesting initiatives promoted by the municipality of Fronto for the tenth anniversary of the opening of the charming Castle, is having a great public success and critical review of Visual Arts entitled "Castle 10 e lode". Born from the collaboration with the associazione culturale Sponge ArteContemporanea. Castle 10 e lode opened with a happening in late July. Public, artists and curators have spent a night in the tent in the splendid setting of monte Catria Valpiana. An evening of meeting and discussion that ended with a performance of Loredana Galante early glimmers of the morning, at around 5. Until December the Castle, the village and the whole territory of the municipality will be the frame of exhibitions, performances, conferences and happenings. Castle 10 e lode reflects and espouses the essence of Sponge ArteContemporanea: on the one hand, the territory of the Italian province, in which the Association chooses to operate, on the other hand the ideas and the research work of artists.

 

 

 

Poker history of Franck Daninos

A book on the bedside table should never fail and, for lovers poker, to the Council a reading to be enjoyed and not from study as the "classic" manual to improve your game. Poker history Franck Daninos will bring the reader right at the beginning of his passion, to discover the different theories on poker's birth, then follow the developments in different times and places.

The game will be told through anecdotes, trivia, mythical matches starring the great champions or strangers that came from the suburbs, have raised their forward chips columns, perhaps moving the first steps in smoky back rooms, a bar. In Poker History find barialso, because in fact the Texas Hold'em is the only game in which lie, being selfish and bluff are the values and skills to improve to be able to say.

But what has poker special to be able to have so much later?

"Our time has created a game in his image": this is the conclusion reached Franck Daninos, reflecting on the characteristics of modern society in which poker, the last avatar of the American dream "still allows to dream freely, with the promise and hope to emerge thanks to their courage and personal merits, even if it starts virtually from scratch. Television and the web have done the rest, accelerating the spread of poker in a globalised society that was already ready to welcome him and to share the ideology.

You will not be faced with a manual of Sociology of poker but for a book from which there is much to learn, as the champion Luca Pagano, author of the foreword and apparatuses of Daninos that allows, in a sense, to master the secrets of poker that in reading the pure manuals can escape.

To close poker history, edited by Odoya Library (10 euros) you will find an afterword by Henry Honey titled "how the Texas stole the dish to the old telesina."

 

WORLD ART IN VENICE

Most important period for the art world, the Venice Biennale, comes to life, the first edition of "World Art in Venice".

Fifty international artists will present their works within the wonderful frame of Ca ' Zanardi.

Diverse artistic expressions, from photography to painting, design and last but not least, entertain the literature world, capturing audience interest. No previous thematic contamination, no ties, a world universal and cross at the same time, where each artist exhibits his soul with a single common purpose: to make art a world heritage, mixed from styles and emotions dictated solely by the different expressive capabilities of each.

A wealth of knowledge and culture, emotions and dreams, wisdom and innovation, which helps us to understand that whatever can be interpreted under different aspects and that each of us, in this interpretation, can warn expressions, nuances and emotions able to re-define its thoughts.

Because in Venice and because during the biennial?

An art exhibition is the best tribute to a city listed as world heritage of if humanity "by UNESCO agreement which, with the highest tourist flow in Italy of over 30 million visitors a year, outperforming any other Italian city.

This incomparable beauties thanks to Piazza San Marco, by definition, the agreement only deserve the name of the square (the other squares are called "fields" or "squares") with the Basilica of San Marco, colorful d if gold and covered with mosaics that tell the story of Venice, near the Ducal Palace with Museum, the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, which for centuries was the largest venue of World Government and the Rialto BridgeIf the only way to cross the Grand Canal walk until 1854, when it was built the bridge of the agreement.

But visitors from all over the world arrive in Venice thanks to the Biennale, which for over a century is one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. At the forefront of promoting new artistic trends, organizes international events in contemporary arts world summits as the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, the international art exhibition and international architecture exhibition, the Festival of music and theatre, and for the most recent Dance Festival.

 

Absolute natural. The forms of marble in photography

The marble as material of excellence, the grandeur of its forms and the delicacy of his spread, the charm of intertwining painting and stratifications of the signs, in the Centre of 30 photographic works of Daniel Tartara.

It is not a reportage on the working of marble and Versilia's cave. The look of photographer investigates rather on the details on the power and complexity of marble, impressive forms and delicacy of powders and subjects. Search Visual Daniel Tartara is more a reflection and an investigation into nature as primary art form, the ambiguity of perception and the absoluteness of the vision. Is the Act of the survey and measurement that fascinates, "waiting that implies the ability to make silence and listen to things reveal their essence and their souls".

When a photographer does "tabula rasa" of everything that is not essential and gives to the slowness of the gaze, soul and body, to try to get in touch with "his time and his inner core."

It snaps to burst, but calibra energies, circuisce, Woo, returns several times on the site of his disturbance and only when this results in her "a languor amoroso", when he hears the traces of a "presence of an animistic", "a voice that whispers that the place was or would be," then click the picture.

Through the marble, speaks well of the perfection of nature, of amazement generated by certain natural forms of contemplative attitude necessary to return the soul of the places.

"Earth and Water" by Matthew Roar

Xausa, born at Trenton on October 6, 1971, teacher of classical guitar, he graduated in civil engineering; in 1998 graduated hygiene and environmental medicine applied to bioecology. Later, he left his profession to devote himself fully to art, vibrant images of sounds and colours that come from his being himself, through the colors that smears forcefully on the canvas in the same way that sounds; creates music through images, realizing his vision of life open and colourful, through personal style, popular in much of Europe where he organized several personal and collective exhibitions.
Painting by Matteo Roar is like a glimpse of daily life, matter, linked to Sun and air filtering in colors like light; the color you touch, tangible as wheat fields windblown, symbol of life itself. The painting is pure color, expressed without the use of technical means denaturing the very essence of the matter and the simplicity of canvas, the natural basis on which earth, water, sky, the House with the Windows open, a symbol of positivity and openness to life. The natural path in painting crosses stories of people (just mentioned, almost non-existent) and places, a path along a dream, almost a necessity to tell stories through pictures lives exactly as you propose in the mind and heart, passing directly and instinctively to the brush, color and pulsating sensations.

"Earth and water" is the result of a search from the soul of the city through the houses, the history of places and people impressed upon the subject, and leads to a call to the roots that continues out of the urban settlement, on the rural territory, open, and then arrive at the border lands between land and sea. A journey through "The dancing", "Sky roof", "Square", where the fragility of man tells in a way almost dancing, to recount the story through places and gestures. In a continuous movement toward open spaces, "Sky of fields" and "full moon", where the expressive force of life through the color reminds us of the cycle of life, and now lean alongside Marine villages of "Earth" and "water", at the mouth of a wonderful journey, arrival point but especially the origin of life itself.

 

Francesco Clemente at the Galleria degli Uffizi

What follows is the press release of Francesco Clemente which will be open until November 6, 2011.

curated by Max Seidel

Friday, September 9, 2011 opens in Florence the exhibition Francesco Clemente Tarot curated by Max Seidel at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi (Edoardo Detti) and the Uffizi Gallery (Sala del Camino). The exhibition of 90 works born from the collaboration of the famous Italian artist with the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi and the active participation in the project of the Uffizi Gallery and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut.

For this occasion Francesco Clemente has created a series of 78 works, leaving inspired by Tarot cards. Through his particular artistic sensibility and a subtle ironic vein, Clement failed to renew the symbolic universe that characterizes these cards, making a nucleus of works of great artistic value. The artist has always been interested in languages of contemplative traditions, has woven between their traditional iconography, esoteric allusions and references entirely personal, making spring pictures deeply symbolic.

Alongside Tarot cards, Clemente will be exhibiting a series of 12 paintings, which depict in the guise of the twelve apostles, made specifically for the Uffizi Gallery. A self-portrait, also will be donated to the Gallery and will enrich the collection of self-portraits by contemporary artists in the Museum.

The catalogue, published by Hirmer Verlag, German Publisher is accompanied by texts by Marzia Faietti, Antonio Natali, Francesco Pellizzi and Max Seidel and a presentation by Cristina Acidini.

Contemporary interest in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi is born with its beginnings, i.e. Since the seventeenth century. Cardinal Leopold with their desired collector and Filippo Baldinucci as first curator and authorising the collection, alongside the works of the Renaissance, appreciated mainly for their historical value, they had to ' modern ', who were the artists of the Baroque era, a curious, systematic and constant attention. And the same can be said in later times; which explains the chronological continuity of graphic works in the collection.

Without aspire to an accomplished contemporary acquisitions, planning, entrusted to qualified generosity of donations, even today the GDSU is open to artists living or lived in the century just ended, and hosts in their modern spaces, yet already archived, a sequence of initiatives exhibition that alternate with the so-called Old Masters appearances and stories that have the value of the full news.

In this framework of institutional vocation fits the exhibition Francesco Clemente (born 1952), perhaps in the awareness of layered and complex artistic tradition of these places, he chose to express in the Uffizi his unmistakable creative vein facing an ancient theme as Tarot.

The drawings made in different parts of the world between Naples, New York, New Mexico and India, are a reference to private places but also to Clement a collective and global geography that each of us is living, at least virtually. And portraits of the protagonists of a cosmopolitan cultural community, in the allegorical representations of the stars, the virtues and triumphs, bind the new and the old continent in a game of glances carried out by the artist who autoritrae in the Beyonder's crazy.

Next to the Tarot, twelve canvases in the fireplace Room with so many close-ups of Clement as Apostle, the network of cross-references between the figurative space storms of the past and the present one of many possible.

The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Uffizi Gallery and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut.