COMING SOON - STREET ART

Any form of visual art created in public locations is usually defined as street art and street artists choose the street as their gallery as to communicate directly and without boundaries with their public.

The exhibition, hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, will bring the experience of 12 of these artists indoor while comparing their different use of street art language.
"Urban Legends" will open on June, 7 at La Pelanda, Macro Museum. Entrance will be free of charge.

For more info about the museum click here: Macro Museum

Sebastião Salgado at the Ara Pacis Museum

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images 

The exhibition, hosted at the Ara Pacis, in the heart of ancient Rome, clearly testimonies Salgado's deep involvement in the environmental protection of our planet. 
With hundreds of fascinating black and white images, "Genesis" portrays the magnificent beauty of regions that are still in a pristine condition despite the manifold destruction caused by irresponsible human activity. 






In an era, in which technology and progress seem to be essential targets for the 

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

preservation of human beings, there still are communities that live happily, according to their ancient culture and traditions.
Salgado's message is poignant. It makes us feel that it's not too late to undertake strong actions to save and protect our marvellous planet, that we're still in time to preserve its beauty and our lives, and that instead of rushing to move continuously forward, we should slow down and wonder whether the progress at which we aim is worth such a high price.

© Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

A memorable lunch at La Terrazza dell'Eden

There are different ways to celebrate a special event. Particularly if you live in Rome and if the weather forecast announces pouring rain despite the approach of summer.
The graduation ceremony is an emotional stress both for grads and their parents. The first ones are partially sad because a long period of their lives comes to an end, but they're incredibly excited since a new one is going to start pretty soon. The second ones are very proud of their children's achievements but terribly sad about having soon to wave them goodbye, since in most cases their university is located thousands of miles away from home.
It's a matter of age, I guess, that draws a clear line in the feelings of those, who still have an amount of choices ahead, and those, who have already made them and to whom little is spared.
La Terrazza of the Eden Hotel in Rome has been the perfect spot to seal the end of an era and the beginning of a new, still unknown, one.
Its atmosphere is cosy like the one at home, the service accurate like the care a parent has for his child, and the view stunning and breathtaking just like the one that both of them -children and parents-have when they look at the future to come.
Yes, we did have a MEMORABLE time at La Terrazza. And as I said, much more than that...

For culinary curious, I had a delicate amuse-gueule

Free entrance ticket!

This coming Saturday, May 18, is "La Notte dei Musei".

From 8 p.m. until 2 a.m., the entrance to 30 different exhibitions hold in the major museums of the capital -including Macro and Musei Capitolini- will be free of charge!  

For more info, check the site: http://en.museiincomuneroma.it/

COMING SOON - World Press Photo 2013

This year, the international jury of the 56th annual World Press Photo contest has awarded 54 photographers coming from 32 different countries.  The hard work of these professionals in visual journalism has been divided into nine categories: Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, General News, Nature, Observed Portraits, Sports Action, Sports Feature, Spot news, Staged Portraits.

Photo of the Year 2012 is a picture taken in Gaza City on November, 20th by Paul Hansen of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere, will feature the awarded photographs from May, 4th until May, 26th.

Opening time: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday. The museum is closed on Mondays and entrance is allowed until one hour before closing time.

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Tiziano. A must see in Rome.

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

When we come to speak about art, nothing is more true than this quote.
Lately I have been visiting "Tiziano", a fabulous exhibition hosted at "Le Scuderie del Quirinale".
Forty paintings testimony the incredible rise and success of this amazingly gifted venetian renaissance artist and unparalleled promoter of the renewal of culture in Italy and Europe during the sixteenth century. His artworks, loaned from many leading museums, both in Europe and overseas, allow the visitor to grasp the exceptional nature of this talented artist. 
My favourite painting? All of them! But especially the portraits, such as the one of Pope Paul III

Rendez-vous with Helmut Newton

How I missed the opening of one of my favorite photo exhibitions is still a mystery.
But as I came to know that a Helmut Newton's photo exhibition was being hosted at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, I couldn't avoid to plan a visit. Immediately!
My stubbornness did not care whether the day I chose was the ideal one. And it wasn't, of course. The new Pope was going to hold his first Mass; thousand of people were participating to the annual roman marathon; most part of the city was closed to car traffic!
I had to park quite far away, but I made it. I left my car in the area around Circo Massimo,

Sunday's walk through art

As I said, I spent a week lying in bed. I rested, no doubt, but as soon as I recovered, I needed some fresh air.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), on Sunday no car was allowed within the green area, which practically coincides with the entire city. So I wore a comfortable pair of sneakers and...went out.
My Sunday walk included:

Ten blocks of art

If it wasn't because I wanted to have breakfast at the newly opened Bakery House, I would have probably missed the chance to (re)take a walk in the beautiful "quartiere Coppedé".

Entrance to the "Spider Building"

In the area between Piazza Buenos Aires and Via Tagliamento are numerous buildings, fountains, arches and sculptures, that mix different art styles. 
The project to create a new residential district was entrusted to Gino Coppedé in 1913.
Coppedé was an expert in wood carving, and he perfectly mastered the styles, which were most popular in the early twentieth century, such as Art Nouveau and Liberty, as well as the Italian repertoire of past centuries, in particular the Middle Ages, Mannerism and Baroque.
The result is definitely unique. 

I would suggest to start the visit from the main entrance, in Via Tagliamento, where an arch, connecting two buildings, leads to the heart of the district, Piazza Mincio, where the "Fontana delle rane" (The Frogs Fountain) is located.

COMING SOON

TIZIANO 5 March-16 June 2013 
The upcoming exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome is conceived as to ideally think of the major role of the venetian painting in the renewal of Italian and European cultures.
A path, which is carried out through the analysis of the works of the major protagonists of modern pictorial revolution, such as Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto, Tintoretto and, of course, Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576), highly known and admired in the period between the fourteenth and fifteenth century.
His activity took primarily  place in Venice and in Urbino, and he became so famous that Ariosto mentioned him in his poem, "Orlando Furioso", published in 1532.



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A Saturday with the Brueghels at Chiostro del Bramante

There is nothing that fascinates me more than a painting. The capability of reproducing an image on a canvas can be a matter of technique, but some paintings, transcending the mere subject of the picture, communicate an atmosphere or a feeling, or capture a special moment. These last testimony that the artist's mastery of the brush is so thorough as to dominate it, subjecting it to the service of his own inspiration. 

The Brueghel family was indeed a dynasty of talented artists, active between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

COMING SOON

"Il cammino di Pietro" is the title of the exhibition hosted at Castel Sant'Angelo from tomorrow until May, 1st.
Its intent is to retrace Saint Peter's life through the paintings and the sculptures, that, from the Middle Age to the nineteenth century, were dedicated to him. The purpose is to eliminate the distance that separates us from the events documented in the Gospels.
The choice of Saint Peter is obviously not accidental. The first Pope of the Christianity was indeed  a restless man, prey of doubt and uncertainty, and for this reason he embodies, more than anyone else, the idea of Faith in all its aspects. It will be therefore easy for both believers and non-believers, to identify with him and with his "journey" towards faith.
The visitors might take the chance to admire two other important paintings such as " Consegna delle chiavi" by Il Perugino and "Crocifissione di Pietro" by Il Caravaggio, kept respectively in The Sistine Chapel and in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, located in the homonymous square.
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COMING SOON

Fashion winks at culture. If on one side, Fendi is going to sponsor the restoration of the Trevi fountain in Rome, on the other, Tod's (Diego Della Valle) is going to finance the one of the Colosseum with 25 million euros. 

But while waiting for the works to begin, all major Italian stylists are very busy in finalizing the latest details of their coming catwalk. 
On February, 20th the Milan Fashion Week will indeed officially open its doors to buyers, fashion addicts and a few, very selected Special Guests.

Here's the calendar of the major events:
Feb., 20: Gucci (2.00 p.m.) -  Alberta ferretti (5.00 p.m.)
Feb., 21: Fendi (12.30 a.m.) - Antonio Marras (3.00 p.m.) - Prada (6 p.m.)
Feb., 22: Etro (11.30 a.m.) - Blumarine (3 p.m.) - Versace (7.00 p.m.)
Feb., 23: Bottega Veneta (9.30 a.m.) -Ermanno Scervino (11.30 a.m.) -Emilio Pucci (7 p.m.)
Feb., 24: Dolce e Gabbana (4.00 p.m.) - Missoni (4.00 p.m) - Ferragamo (6 p.m.)
Feb., 25: Giorgio Armani (11 a.m.) - Gianfranco Ferre' (1.00 p.m.)
Feb., 26: New Designers

Have fun!!! :)

Rome Fashion Week is in full swing

The bi-annual Rome Fashion Week (also known as Alta Moda Roma) is one of the major fashion events in Rome in January and July. The event creates innumerable opportunities for the meeting between historic Italian fashion houses

COMING SOON

Beato Angelico
The first Renaissance artist to be on display at Galleria Borghese during the year of the Faith, that started on October, 11th and will end on November, 24th 2013, is Beato Angelico. 
His "Annunciation of Cortona" (1430 A.D.) will be exhibited for a period of two months, and followed by four other masterpieces of different artists, all testifying the influence of faith on art, literature and music.
Beato Angelico's altarpiece will be presented in preview tonight next to the tomb of the painter, who rests in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, and moved from tomorrow until February, 10 to Galleria Borghese. 

Art and food: nourishment for the body and soul

Despite the awful weather conditions which prevail in these days in Rome, and make me want to stay locked at home, I couldn't miss the exhibition of Serena Dini's paintings. My dearest friend's aunt, who I unfortunately do not know, is surely an interesting person. About ten years ago, she opened a resort in the Sahara desert,

COMING SOON

Brueghel. Wonders of the Flemish art.
An unprecedented exhibition of masterpieces of the Brueghel dinasty will be hosted at Chiostro del Bramante from the 18th of December until the 3rd of June 2013.

The exhibition traces the history and the exceptional talent of the most important race of Flemish artists active between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through paintings, drawings and graphics of its greatest exponents.
Opening hours: Monday/Friday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.    Saturday/Sunday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
http://www.romeguide.it/mostre/bruegel/bruegelchiostrobramanteeng.html

(Christmas) ace in the hole. N.2

Close to the church of St. Louis of the French, that boasts three world renowned canvases of Caravaggio (The Calling of St Matthew, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew), is located a shop, that carries an incredibly wide range of design objects, ExArte.

Among others, I loved these wall clocks, depicting the most famous Rolex watches

and these coffee cups with a tray similar to those for pastries

as well as this set of magnetized knives, having an unbelievable sharp blade.

But the choice is much wider: bottles, glasses, vases...

...and also Christmas decorations, pieces of furniture, table cloths, radios, technological telephones, trendy bags, bookends in the shape of a capital letter and much much more.

This was my favorite: a silver crouched man looking like a bird.

And having space at home, why not this table football to have fun during winter afternoons?

COMING SOON

Jacovitti 1939-1997

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Contemporary art.
"Among the leading figures in Italian illustration, Jacovitti crossed sixty years of Italian history with brilliant irony, representing a significant and emblematic landmark. The exhibition represents an opportunity to explore the many facets of the artist's work."

Museum of Ara Pacis from November, 30 until January 27, 2013. Closed on Mondays.

COMING SOON

Momix at Teatro Olimpico
The renowned company of dancers-illusionists, famous for its extraordinary capacity to evoke surrealistic images through costumes and suggestive plays of light and shade, will be back in Rome from the 13th to the 20th of November. 

Directed by American choreographer Moses Pendleton, Momix celebrates its 30th anniversary performing "Momix ReMix". This last show is a collection of the company's most beautiful dance pieces, and it embraces the whole of its activity, from "Momix Classics" to "Bothanica". It will also include "Baths of Caracalla", a tribute to the city of Rome.

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