Spring is shyly coming, especially in north Italy where the snow has reappeared, and tell us this not only the warmer temperature or trees in bloom, but also taste events that happen along streets, alleys and squares of the wonderful Italian villages.
Among the upcoming Italy events, in May, in Brisighella (Ravenna, Italy) will be the Artichoke Moretto Festival.
For this occasion, the streets of the charming village in the province of Ravenna were populated by wine and food stand, where local products are the absolute protagonists of Faenza.
Artichoke Moretto is a typical vegetable of this area and it can also be consumed raw view the tenderness of its foliage, or, classically, boiled and sprinkled with a little oil.
The properties of the artichoke are renowned since past, the high presence of iron makes it a valuable food in the diets which need of an increased intake of this mineral.
This festival is also an great opportunity to visit not only Brisighella but also the surrounding area, rich flavors, art and nature: let’s visit Italy!
Long-standing rock band Aerosmith have added a show at London’s 02 Arena on 15 June 2010 to their ‘Cocked, Locked and Ready to Rock’ tour.
The string of 2010 summer dates will be the first that notorious American rockers Steve, Joe, Tom, Brad and Joey have played in Europe for three years. Tickets to the 02 gig are expected to sell fast, as the oft-feuding band unite to deliver bucketloads of rock nostalgia with anthems like ‘Love in an Elevator’ and ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’.
The ‘Cocked, Locked and Ready to Rock’ tour will be uncorked in Sweden in June and include appearances in the UK, Romania, Greece, Holland, Belgium, Spain, France, Czech Republic and finally, Italy.
Putting recent quarrels, injuries and stints in rehab behind them, the old time rockers will show a united front as they perform the best of their classic hits.
Lead singer and big-mouthed front-man Steve Tyler said of the tour;
“Back by popular demand with more spit and fire than ever before, we’re coming across the pond and parting the waters as we go.”
Aerosmith tickets will be available on website Viagogo.co.uk
As one of the best-loved bands in rock history, these ‘Bad Boys from Boston’ have an impressive array of awards on the mantelpiece – including four Grammys and 12 MTV Video Awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are the best-selling American rock band of all time, having gyrated and jammed their way through more than four decades and sold more than 150 million albums worldwide.
If your business were a colour what would it be? and what would it be if it were a photograph or a flavour? and what would it be – and this is the most interesting – if it were a song?
These are just a few questions to help you understand how to produce and how to make effective a corporate video. As everybody should have noticed these days, corporate videos are usually dull, boring and generally tedious. In our opinion instead they should capture the attention and the emotions of your target, either it is your staff, your clients and other public.
First of all corporate videos are not about big copies like brochures are. When we work on video production we work on the emotional level. Speaking of your corporate video if if you overload your target with too much information you will just cause boredom.
So here are some simple suggestions to create an effective corporate video:
1) Write down the words or better the keywords that best describe your business and his unique style.
2) Pick up the music. Not something repetitive but something that is able to suggest images and movement in your head.
3) Those images are your storyboard. Photos, footage, animation… just take care that they aren’t too repetitive. Also… they should be able to tell a story by theirself.
4) And now you, just now, you can put the information you need to include. Now that you have the emotional core of your video, you can deliver more effectively your message!
5) Edit your video and watch it, show it to other people and see what they say: they probably won’t be able to tell you what’s wrong but they will help you understand if something is wrong.
Go back to that list until you are not happy with your corporate video and ready to show it to the world!
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Rome celebrated with a grand exhibition, perhaps the finest of this 2010, an Italian artist’s most prolific and best known of all times, or Michelangelo Merisi, known by the name but the most famous Caravaggio.
In Rome it was an exhibition to honor the anniversary of the death quattrocentesimo genius artist and Lombard.
The headquarters of the exhibition are the stables of the Quirinal Palace, a perfect place for those who use a hotel in rome city centre, which has a magnificent structure and while you leave you can enjoy a panoramic terrace on Rome.
The exhibition is under the patronage of the President of the Republic and was created with the approval of the Town Museum of Rome and the Superintendence for the Historic, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological.
The exhibition consists of paintings only officially recognized in Caravaggio, Italy and restores paintings exhibited in all major galleries around the world, among them we have:
I Musici, from the Metropolitan Museum, one of the most important museums in the city of New York, or even the Amor vincit omnia originating from the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, one last example of the Lute Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
The exhibition drew in its opening day, more than four thousand visitors, almost double those expected, with a row that have arrived in Via Nazionale.
The exhibition started on 20 February and will end June 13, so there are still many days to visit.
Until March 6, who loves fashion photography, a truly art of fashion photography, will visit the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London, the exhibition dedicated to Fernand Fonssagrives known in the fashion sector for being one of the first and the most beautiful models.
The art of photography applied to fashion, in this case the photographs where the subjects are not only a person but her/his forms that are given off by bodies to be captured by the objectives of the photographers, become “pictures” where the human body creates unique sensations in the eyes of who not only see but lives what he sees.
Fashion photography is a field of study with a specific courses to the fashion photographer has become the expert of the style. Job opportunities for this professional range can be research consultant, activity freelance for fashion shows, advertising campaigns, editorial and fashion-related events.
About the Fernand Fonssagrives ( Michael Hoppen Gallery 3 Jubilee Place) , you can read: “The Michael Hoppen gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by one of America’s foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives. Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. ..“
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It is many years since the world has seen a performer so startlingly creative, so adept at shock tactics and accomplished in the art of controversy as Lady Gaga.
Since she catapulted to fame with her single Just Dance in 2008, the theatrical singer has sold-out show tickets in minutes and rarely been out of the newspapers. And unlike many of her contemporaries, her excessive press coverage is not related to having a disastrous private life, drug addiction or series of relationships, but for her showmanship and eccentricity.
We have seen the singer giving away a lock of her hair with the deluxe limited edition of her album The Fame Monster. She has enacted a suicide on stage, performed in a giant bathroom on the X Factor and sung to the Queen of England in an Elizabethan ruff and 20 foot long rubber cape.
Real name Stefani Germanotta, Gaga has rolled about in a ‘Chanel wheelchair’, posed naked with Kanye West in pictures by David Lachapelle and bought 80 pizzas for waiting fans queuing at her album signing in Los Angeles. She seemed to revel in speculation that she is a hermaphrodite and broke chart records in America by becoming the first artist in the 17-year history of the Billboard Pop Songs countdown to score four number ones from the same debut album. Paparazzi, Just Dance, Poker Face and LoveGame all hit the top spot in record sales.
As if that was not enough to cram into a few short years, the American singer has collaborated with superstar Beyonce Knowles in her remix of Video Phone, appeared onstage with the Bolshoi Ballet dancers and worn outlandish creations including ‘firework boobs’, gyroscope headgear and a jeweled neck brace and studded crutches.
If you want to go and see for yourself what the phenomena of Gaga is all about, get your Lady Gaga tickets from www.viagogo.co.uk
That’s a new case of incredible luck or perhaps of constancy and perseverance, who knows.
The lucky one is Scottish, David Booth, using a simple metal detector is able to find it 4 gold necklaces with also a particular historic value.
But not only!
The findings of the Scotsman involved of an inspection of the site and a sanctuary it was discovered that near Stirling, the place where the gold was found, there might be even.
Also November there was who has found only with the help of metal detectors a true treasure, gold, worth more than one million euros!
This is just the latest case of discovery of gold, because in the last two months seems there was an epidemic of gold diggers armed with metal detector, especially among the English who seem to be the luckiest.
September, an unemployed British, after found bangles and necklaces he have found gold, the most important archaeological treasures discovered in British territory.
October: another Englishman, Anthony Pilson, there are a lot of gold on the banks of the Thames and then, incredibly, all donate to the Museum of London.
The seventh edition of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence will take place from 5th – 13th December 2009.
The seventh edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from 5th – 13th December 2009. 650 artists coming from 78 countries will be exhibiting more than 2.000 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles. The Florence Biennale supports the United Nations program “Dialogue between civilizations”, to which the Biennale has officially adhered since 2001.
The Biennale will also see the presence of important artists. In the 2007 edition, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. The 2009 Life Achievement award will be given to Marina Abramovic and Shu Yong for their contribution to the International Contemporary Art Scene.
The International Scientific Committee (I.S.C.), composed of 20 qualified members, categorizes the works in the categories of painting, sculpture, graphic, mixed media, installation, photography and digital art. The selection is done with no prejudice of style. Artists are selected based on the quality of their artwork and the cultural values their work represents.
The International Jury that assigns recognitions and awards to the invited artists is composed of distinguished figures such Elza Ajzenberg, exhibition curator of the MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Dominique Edouard Bacheler, art history professor and art critic, Paris; Pang Bang Ben, artist and professor, China; R.B. Bhaskaran, past President of Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Francesco Buranelli, General Manager of the Pontifical Commission for the Church’s Cultural Beings; Pasquale Celona, President of the Biennale, Florence; Piero Celona, General Manager of the Biennale, Florence; Gregorio Luke, past Director of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) Long Beach, California; Bianca Laura Petretto, Curator, journalist, expert on modern and Asian arts, Italy; Matty Roca member of AICA and President of the Arts Corporation in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico; Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center of Linz – Austria; Rosa Tejada, educator at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and Stefano Francolini, Artistic Director of the Biennale, former Director of the C3 Super of the Ministry of the Cultural Activities, Florence, Italy.
The Florence Biennale is organized by Arte Studio.
Fortezza da Basso Florence – 5-13 Decembre 2009 – hours: 10-20 – info: + 39 0553249173
tickets 10 euro
for further information: www.florencebiennale.org
Lorenzo il Magnifico award to Marina Abramovic
The Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence dedicated, as is customary, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award an international recognition of contemporary artistic culture to those particularly outstanding and that still continue to stand by their work.
The VII Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence awards the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award to Marina Abramovic, one of the most important and interesting contemporary performers.
Of Yugoslav origin, active from the 1970s with a series of memorable performances, in which the artist’s body is the matter and central part of the work of her research on the limits of human physicality, Marina Abramovic, the experiences through violence to the point of putting her own body at risk with the presence and use of dangerous items including “On the table there are seventy-two objects that can be used at will on me. I am the object “(Studio Morra, Naples, 1974), truly involving her public, for example, in the famous performance weightlessness (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1977), made with the German artist Ulay ( Uwe Laysiepen), with whom she has an artistic partnership since 1976 and from which it split in 1989 upon completion of their performance ‘Great Wall Walk’: their meeting in the middle of the Great Wall of China, 2000 kilometers long, after a journey that lasted ninety days.
Through the testing of physical and psychological limits of her existence, Marina Abramovic withstands pain, exhaustion, fear and danger in seeking conversion of their emotional and spiritual sphere.
Marina Abramovic has presented and presents her work with images, sounds and video in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Since 1991 she has taught in Germany at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In 1997 the XLVII Venice Biennale has received the Golden Lion for ‘Balkan Baroque’, eight hour performance, during which Marina Abramovic cleans one hundred cow femurs, an action that becomes the symbol to cancel the atrocities that her countrymen have committed in ethnic conflicts, the Balkan in the 90s.
This work, together with the performances ‘The Hero’ (2001), ‘Count On’, ‘Nude with Skeleton’ (2003) and ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’ (2005), was part of her exhibition entitled “Balkan Epic” held Hangar Bicocca in Milan in 2006.
In 2003 Marina Abramovic received the New York Dance and Performance Award The Bessies for ‘The House with Ocean View’ a twelve-day performance at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
In 2005 she presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a series of performances entitled ‘Seven Easy Pieces’.
The works of Marina Abramovic are present in the most important contemporary art collections in the world.
Stefano Francolini
Artistic Director VII Biennale
Collateral events
5 December 11:00am
Opening
5 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe
6 December 11:00am
An Artist and a Scientist: a common way
Lecture by Francesco Saverio Pavone and Dony Mac Manus
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University
6 December 5:30pm
Living Arts of Contemporary India
Lecture by Sushma Bahl
7 December 11:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
When The Last Sword Is Drawn by Takita Yojiro
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe
7 December 5:30pm
Octavio Paz Art and thought
Lecture by Gregorio Luke
7 December 7:30pm
Saint James Church
Artists projects: Paul Lorenz, Barbro Eriksson, Danielle Lindsay
8 December 11:00am
Mathematics as an Art form
Lecture by Vanni Noferini
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University
8 December 5:30pm
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic meets Biennale’s artists
followed by the presentation of the award Lorenzo il Magnifico to Marina Abramovic
9 December 11:00am
Canvas, Paper, Plastic: Abstraction in 2-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz
9 December 5:30pm
Rufino Tamayo master of light and color
Lecture by Gregorio Luke
10 December 11.00am
Art and Chemistry as reciprocal sources of inspiration
Lecture by Cristiana Lofrumento
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University
10 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
Tokyo Sonata by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe
11 December 11:00am
Can Carbon-14 be a suitable dating tool even for contemporary art authentication?
Lecture by Mariaelena Fedi
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University
11 December 5:30pm
Stone, Bronze, Wood: Abstraction in 3-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz
12 December 11:00am
Art and symmetries
Lecture by Roberto Casalbuoni
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University
12 December 4:00pm
Development of Art in China
Lecture by Zhang Hongbin
followed by the Lorenzo il Magnifico prize ceremony awarded to
Shu Yong
12 December 9:00pm
Gala Dinner
13 December 3:00pm
Awards ceremony
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Experiences from the Meyer Hospital Florence, Marseilles and Manchester.
International conference
Saturday 28 November, 9am-6pm
at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence, Italy
On Saturday 28 November, the international conference “Interferences, Art and the Hospital” will take place at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital of Florence from 9am to 6pm.
The conference is entitled “Interferences” because art in a hospital setting stands out and stimulates both on a psychological and on a social level, of who breathes the anxiety and the fears of the environment of a paediatric hospital. The Meyer hospital of Florence bears testimony to this, having art integrated into the new hospital complex of Villa Ognissanti. Works that colour the areas and break up spaces and fill in time, in the wards, clinic waiting rooms, corridors, infiltrating into the garden, the stairwells, filling the voids of the large skylights, offering itself as a stimulus in the relationships between the workers, the young patients and their families. The experience of the Florentine hospital is not intended to be art therapy or a Disney scenario, but rather an art that “stimulates reactions and relations between those who share it.”
Amongst the speakers at this international conference, organized by the Regione Toscana (Department of Culture, Department for the Right to Health) and the Meyer Foundation, are the semiologist Omar Calabrese and Peter Scher, from the Arts of Health from the Faculty of Health Art and Design at the University of Manchester. The most important international experiences will be presented, such as a project for the Hospital of Marseilles by Michelangelo Pistoletto, creator of Cittadellarte, who will be present with a contribution. The conference, which will begin with opening remarks by Tommaso Langiano, President of the Meyer Foundation, aims to build a path so that the “Art at the Meyer laboratory” and what has been achieved elsewhere, can be replicated in other hospitals. Art at the Meyer is not mere decoration but is an interaction with the children, even in the many laboratories active in the Toy Library.
In particular, to outline the planning capacity with the declared intention of making it possible in other hospital contexts, the conference Interferences, will be divided in two: in the morning the theme will reflect what has been achieved to date. There will be a whole session dedicated to artistic experiences already activated reflecting both national and European realities, according to a holistic view of the Hospital, which in turn should reflect a multiplicity of visions and perceptions, to contain and to recall from elements of everyday life to the fantastic and to the imaginary. Paolo Cocchi Councillor of Culture for the Regione Toscana (Tuscan Region) will speak in the morning.
In the afternoon, importance will be given to “The practice of doing”, to define the possible strategies for development and for consolidation. A round table is planned, to analyse the tools and levers used to activate other art experiences in the hospital setting; in occasion of the project proposed by the Regione Toscana for the construction of four new hospitals, where humanization and environmental aspects will run parallel to the design of the hospitals.
At the end of the conference at 6pm, ten panels inspired by the first book of Pinocchio by Fabio De Poli and made by the children’s crèche, Noé in Florence, will be presented.
How to participate.
Registration is necessary and should be completed via the web at www.meyer.it/interferenze
There will be a coffee break at the opening (9am) and closing (6pm) of the conference, offered by the Meyer Foundation
The experience of the Meyer Hospital.
The Paediatric Hospital of Florence, within the context of Meyer Art, a project desired and supported by the Meyer Foundation, houses works of art by artists such as Esther Albardanè, Altan, Dario Bartolini, Carlo Cantini, Sara Carlini, Fabio De Poli, Francesco Fagnani, Gianni Fanello, Sophie Fatus, Paolo Favi, Simone Frasca, Paolo Guidotti, Janet Mullarney, Daniele Nannini, Giovanni Pecchioli, Peppe Perone, Andrea Rauch (Artistic Director), Guido Scarabattolo and Sergio Traquandi.
Interferences: Art and the Hospital, 28 November 2009, from 9am -6pm,
Main Hall of the Meyer Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence www.fondazione.meyer.it
www.regione.toscana.it
Press Office: Roberta Rezoalli, Meyer Paediatric Hospital Meyer Foundation, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139 – Florence (Italy) tel. + 39 055 566 2302 mob. + 39 335 6860 677 www.meyer.it
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