Milano – Art: La Triennale – Forty Years of contemporary Art Massimo Minini 1973-2013

 

Milano – Art:  La Triennale – Forty Years of contemporary Art Massimo Minini 1973-2013. At La Triennale, until February 2, Forty Years of Contemporary Art. Massimo Minini 1973-2013, a sweeping exhibition to celebrate forty years of Galleria Minini.  The exhibition consists of works that have passed through Galleria Minini in Brescia, offering an authentic cross-section of contemporary art as told by the lead actor, who adopts a personal point of view, at times ironic and desecrating. Amid countless flashbacks, Massimo Minini pieces together, explains and tells the story of the various moments and passages in his characteristic manner, which has found a particular literary form in his Pizzini. These “scraps” have become a successful book with short stories, brilliant ideas and tales about the artists he has met over the years.

Above: Hans-Peter Feldmann.

La Triennale – Forty Years of contemporary Art Massimo Minini 1973-2013.  The display design of this exhibition reflects the gallerist’s own particular perspective, historic works are shown alongside site-specific installations, and a section is devoted to the collection of Italian photography.

Above: Paul Thorel.

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Antonio Marras Men's Fall/Winter 2014 2015 Full Fashion Show.

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Milano: Antonio Marras Men’s F/W 2014/15 Collection

Milano: Antonio Marras Men’s F/W 2014/15 Collection. Antonio Marras Menswear 2014/15 collection was a tribute to his father and entitled, I had a father, I am a father.  “My father, like me, was Sardinian from Alghero, an outpost of Sardinia right in front of Spain.  He used to have a fabric store, fabrics meant for every occasion. I’ve always poked around in my father’s shop, played with combinations of colors and materials, observed attentively the skirts and shawls of those silent and determined women who came to Alghero from the country to buy good clothes for special occasions and for work, stuff that would last for decades, wear-resistant and weatherproof.”

 

 Backstage: Antonio Marras. “In the long and deep workshop, the fabrics were carefully rolled on wooden shelves. For every person there was a fabric, just waiting for the right time to be chosen, to be sewn and take shape and life.” …wool combined with melange jersey, necktie printed micro-canvas wool, canvas micro cashmere print wool, liberty printed poplin…

 

 

Patrizia Marras with her goddaughter Francesca

Backstage: Antonio Marras – Make-up. The make-up was designed by Michele Magnani for M.A.C. “Translucent with important eyebrows, and strong, like the Marras collection.”

Backstage: Antonio Marras – Hair.  The hair was designed by Cesare Rigo using L’Oreal Professional products. “1970s inspired, by Antonio’s father, a bit rockabilly a bit Elvis, I used gel and lacquer to achieve the look.”

 

Backstage Marras. A well-deserved nap.  

 

Backstage: Antonio Marras – T shits. Designed by Antonio Marras together with Stefano Bartezaghi the T-shirts will benefit the floods in Sardinia. 

 

Daniela Sardo and Pierivo

 

Antonio Marras Men’s F/W 2014/15 Collection. The old and next generation of tailors perform to 13_6OO_HZ_concert for sewing machines a project by Sara Conforti.

Antonio Marras Men’s F/W 2014/15 Collection.  Jo Squillo transmits her TV Moda program sitting next to the "next generation” of tailors, who performed 13_6OO_HZ_concert for sewing machines.

 

 Director of fashion movies Silvia Morani

 

 

Antonio Marras 2014/15 Menswear collection

 

Seen at Marras. Rolling Stone magazine’s editor in chief Michele Lupi.

 

Seen at Marras. Filippa Lagerback and Manos Samartzis.

Seen at Marras.  Eleonora Carisi, Candela Novembre and Giuseppe Damato.

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Milano – Art: Fondazione Mudima – Daniel Spoerri exhibition

Milano – Art:  Fondazione Mudima – Daniel Spoerri exhibition. The Daniel Spoerri exhibition at the Fondazione Mudima, until February 9, is entitled Il Bistrot di Santa Marta, the patron saint of housewives, cooks, hoteliers and restaurateurs. Twenty-one tableaux present assemblies of kitchen utensils, all objects found by the artist at flea markets across Europe, preserved and fixed in ideal collections;  a reference to the act of collecting, to the memory of lived situations,  traditions and customs that define a kind of archaeological reconstruction of our times, relived through the age-old practice and archetypal as the preparation and consumption of food.

 

Fondazione Mudima: Daniel Spoerri exhibition.  A series of real dinners will also take place during the exhibition in the gallery themed under the supervision of Daniel Spoerri himself. A catalog will later gather the documentation of the banquets and will be published by the Fondazione Mudima.

Fondazione Mudima: Daniel Spoerri exhibition.  An etching of Santa Marta from which the exhbition takes its name, she is the patron saint of housewives, cooks, hoteliers and restaurateurs.

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Milano: Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015 collection

Milano: Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015 collection. Marni’s loft showroom was the venue for the Men’s Fall/Winter 2014-2105 presentation.   A video of the collection was shown on giant screens, whilst press and buyers could view the collection up close in a separate room.  The collection which runs from sport to classic, workwear to tailoring, utility to luxury, army to office is taken apart, dissected and re-arranged in a mix that is quintessentially Marni: dry yet soulful, precise with a certain carelessness, graphic. The result is a comprehensive wardrobe that covers the needs and demands of daily life using what is known and familiar in an off-kilter kind of way. Cohesion comes through a loose sense of volume, deceptive textures, fur used as an accent.

  

Marni’s Consuelo and Gianni Castiglioni

                                                                         photograph courtesy Marni                                                    

 

Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015.  The bomber and the parka are occasionally morphed into one.

Karla Otto

 

Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015.  The fur collar recurs throughout, in and out of context, replacing the scarf to provide warmth in a graphic way.

buyers and press

 photograph courtesy Marni

Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015.  The pillars of the masculine repertoire are distilled to their essence in a quest for soft classicism that keeps a slightly subcultural tingle: the tailored suit, slim and crisp, halfway between an urban staple and  a work uniform; the Crombie coat is seen in a textural vein; the trench coat is reduced to a blueprint; the bomber and the parka are occasionally morphed into one.

 

Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015.  Belgian stylist and blogger Thomas Vanden Bogaerde and interior designer Keon Eeckhout view the printed T-shirts by French artist Francois-Xavier Tavy-Sacley. One of the three artists from the Outsider Art group to which Marni pays homage.

 

 

Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015. Celebrity food designer and consultant Corrado Calza’s petit Tarte Tatins and Cheesecakes, just two of the delicious amuse bouches, along with mini the Gnocchi alla Romana con Erbe we tasted.

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Milano: Taglio restaurant

 

Milano: Taglio restaurant.  Situated in the Naviglio area of Milan, Taglio is a deli, a food store, a cafe, a bar and a restaurant.  It is open from seven a.m. right up until late at night and attracts and accommodates the Internet crowd. 

 

Taglio.  Created by Gianluca Biscalchin, journalist, author and illustrator (see his place mats above) together with Andrea De Michelis, Raffaele Sangiovanni and Mark Tamaro. At Taglio you can buy the great variety of products stored on the shelves, each one, sampled and selected by the owners themselves.

 

Chef Domenico della Salandra’s Salad of Puntarelle

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