Milano: Furla Autumn Winter 2011/2012

Accessories: Furla Autumn Winter 2011/2012.    The Furla bags are inspired by the feminine rigour of the 1950s, with an ultra-contemporary twist. Very small or medium in size they have double handles of refined design, they are also embellished with zips and studs that highlight their character and clean lines.

Above:  A detail of Amazzone, a spacious bag with distinctive zippers, which conceal inserts and details in contrasting materials and colors.

Furla’s CEO, Giovanna Furlanetto.

NEW TALENT:  Francesca Colussi for Furla Talent Hub Autumn Winter 2011/2012 Collection.  Textile design is the starting point for the collection designed by Francesca Colussi for Furla Talent Hub.   The capsule collection “Le Mille e una Notte” (One Thousand and One Night) comes from intense research conducted by Francesca Colussi.   The young designer’s aim was to create ornamental motifs that could translate the emotions evoked by the famous book of oriental tales into “signs”. Francesca designed, cut, erased and simplified until the incredible stories, which have reached us intact through centuries and across a cultural divide, were transformed into images.

Above: Francesca Colussi and her shopper, Colussi TH23 in padded nylon; it is completely reversible and features a different print on the inside.

 

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Milano: Tom Ford Womenswear Collection

Milano: Tom Ford Womenswear Collection. From today the Tom Ford Spring Summer Womenswear collection is also available in the Milan flagship store.  The first Tom Ford Womenswear Collection is a capsule collection, which includes day and evening suiting, tailored separates, cocktail wear, and dramatic eveningwear all made from exquisite materials.

The Designer.  Tom Ford seen here in Venice at the premier of his film A Single Man with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, explains his first womenwear collection “These are clothes made for the woman who truly values being “dressed.” It is a return to elegance, and a return to the true roots of womenswear. The collection is anchored in the art of tailleur, the tradition of beautifully constructed women’s suiting that has been missing from fashion for years. This brings a formality and integrity to everything we make.” He adds, “As with Tom Ford Menswear, this is not a fashion collection that changes direction seasonally. Tom Ford Womenswear is a wardrobe of timeless, eternally chic clothing. It gives a woman gorgeous pieces to wear in her own distinct way—not simply for a season but forever.” 

A detail.  A detail of a black and white leopard print trouser suit in the window of the Tom Ford boutique.

 

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MILAN: Pizza Magazine launch

 Milano: Le Case D’Arte - Pizza magazine launch. Pizza magazine teamed up with Le Case D’Arte art gallery for the launch of their second issue.  The indie magazine is self produced and published by Andrea Batilla and Sabrina Ciofi and there is no advertising. The magazine aims to scout young Italian talents from all creative fields, under the age of thirty, who “tell” contemporary Italian stories. Ironically the magazine is written in English as it is mostly sold abroad,  the purpose of this is to spread the word about all things Italian as seen through the eyes of young Italian men and women. The live happenings in the art gallery revolved around artist and musicians using the magazine and its pages as inspiration.

In the photograph. Le Case D’Arte’s Pasquale Leccese and a model wearing a monkey mask, a tribute to the editorial in Pizza magazine on the important Italian artist, Paola Piva and Andrea Batilla co editor in chief and creative director of the magazine with Sabrina Ciofi.

NEW TALENT: Le Case D’Arte - Pizza magazine launch. Giuliana Curra’ was sewing pages of Pizza magazine into William Burroughs inspired cut up.

A detail. A detail of Giuliana Curra’s William Burroughs inspired cut up. The cut-up technique is a literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

NEW TALENT:  Le Case D’Arte - Pizza magazine launch. The musical performance by Lorenzo Morri on his homemade mandolin was inspired by Pizza magazine’s play list.   Lorenzo chose a mandolin because it’s origins are Neapolitan like pizza. He built the instrument himself from an old wooden box of oil paints, an anchovy tin and a piece of wood.

Le Case D’Arte - Pizza magazine launch.  Soprano, Akiko Kozato performed and sang a page from Pizza magazine.

Le Case D’Arte - Pizza magazine launch.   The ‘real’ thing was served with Nastro Azzurro Italian beer.

 

 
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HAPPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY OTTAVIO MISSONI

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Today is Ottavio Missoni's 90th Birthday.

Ottavio Missoni, creator with his wife Rosita, of the world brand fashion label Missoni and a great man of sports, finalist at the Olympic Games in London in 1948, is 90 today.  Tai, as he is known by his friends, tells in his first book (published by Rizzoli) entitled, One Life on the Woolen Yarn: the sports life, the creation of the fashion empire and many episodes and meetings with famous personalities of art, of culture and of journalism.  The book also pays homage and commemorates Italian, Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and the Foibe Massacres after the Second World War.

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Bologna: People and Art - Arte Fiera weekend

Basilica di Santo Stefano – Shozo Shimamoto.  For the first time in Bologna the works of Shozo Shimamoto are exhibited in the impressive Basilica di Santo Stefano, until February 17th.

Basilica di Santo Stefano – Shozo Shimamoto.  The explosion of color by Shozo Shimamoto, co-founder with JiroYoshihara of the Gutai, a group of Concrete Art, which has proposed the banning of the brush, betraying centuries of artistic tradition. 
In the Basilica of Santo Stefano, which gives its name to one of the most beautiful squares of the city, there are exhibited sculptures and large paintings realized during the latest performance Shozo Shimamoto made in Italy in 2007 and 2008.

Basilica di Santo Stefano – Shozo Shimamoto.  The Gutai movement investigates the relationship between the spirit and the material, the meeting/collision of Zen philosophy and western culture.  It represents the synthesis between the reclamation of values, which have been forgotten, destroyed and wiped out by devastating events such as the Second World War and the contamination of Japanese culture by external forces; primarily those of America.   Painting, calligraphy, sculpture (but above all performance), events, theatrical works improvisation (always with a strong emphasis on audience participation) are the stylistic code of this movement, which has always sought to challenge the concept of traditional art. 

Basilica di Santo Stefano – Shozo Shimamoto.   The curator of the Shozo Shimamoto exhibition, Achille Bonito Oliva.

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Bologna: People and Art - Arte Fiera weekend

 

Palazzo Pepoli – Premio Furla. The eighth awards ceremony of the Furla Prize and the exhibition of the five finalist of the prize was held at Palazzo Pepoli. The Goal of the Furla Prize is of promoting and supporting emerging artists who live and work in Italy. This year’s title “Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut” takes its name from the motto by Christian Boltanski patron artist of this edition.  The prize was created and curated by Chiara Bertola.

Above: Fabbio Roversi-Monaco, Chiara Bertola, Christian Boltanski and Giovanna Furlanetto.

Premio Furla.  One of the  members of the international jury, Christian Boltanski whose motto “Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut”  (“Cry if you can, laugh if you want to”) was adapted as the title of the 2011 edition of the Furla Prize.

Premio Furla.    Marina Abramovic was in Bologna for a conference called, Lady Performance – Meeting with Marina Abramovic at the Alma Mater Studiorum.  The artist personally commented on the Italian preview of the film, Seven Easy Pieces, which was one of the principal events of her solo exhibition held at MoMa in New York last year. 

Premio Furla – the winner.   The winner of the 2011 Furla Prize went to Matteo Rubbi who was praised for “his ability to interact with the viewers and to create new feedbacks between exhibition space and public space in a spirit of generous engagement. His work engages with different cultural domains in both conceptual and material terms, and reveals a keen sense for experimental adventure.”

Premio Furla.  The Pool NYC gallery’s Viola Romoli and sculpture, Andrea Salvatori.

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Bologna: People and Art - Arte Fiera weekend

Bologna Fiera: Arte Fiera Art First. One of the first international modern and contemporary art fairs organized in Italy in the 1970s, Arte Fiera has gradually become Italy’s largest and most important art fair.   Every year, this must-see event is the first exhibition devoted to modern and contemporary art, and attracts gallery owners, collectors, curators, artists, and art lovers from Italy and around the world. 
Above: Patrick Mimran, Don’t Feel Stupid…, 2011, textpainting on canvas with certificate in acrylic. Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen.

Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen. Collector, Davide Blei and gallery owner, Dorothea Van Der Koelen.

Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen. Artist, Lore Bert stands in front of her Fleur-de-lys, 2010 work made with hand folded and “crumpled” Japanese and Nepal paper.

Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen.  Lore Bert’s Pyramide, 2010, relief object with Japanese and Nepal paper. The blue design on the ball was inspired by gothic shapes found in glass in church windows.

Galleria Antonia Jannone. Gallery owner, Antonia Jannone stands in front of Velasco Vitali’s Pripjat painting.

Galleria Antonia Jannone. Velasco Vitali, Maunsell Army Sea Forts 1954, oil on canvas. One of twelve paintings by the artist that depicts phantom cities which have been built and then abandoned or never lived in.

 Valeriano Raspollini and Maria Cristina de Bragança Berrocal.

 

 Watercolor artist, Fiona Corsini, artist, Patrizia Medail and Giorgiana Corsini.

 Ben Brown Fine Arts. New York based, collector and private art dealer, Marcello Bardi stands in front of a Candida Hoefer C-print photograph, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisboa, 2005.

LipanjePuntin Arte Contemporanea. Gallery owner, Marco Puntin of the Trieste based, LipanjePuntin Arte Contemporanea gallery stands in front of Antonio Riello’s Today’s Special no. 4, 2004, Lambda print on aluminum.

photograph by manfredi bellati

LipanjePuntin Arte Contemporanea.  Albano Guatti, Fredderf, 1980-1992, embalmed animals, drawing on paper, stainless steel, iron and wood sculpture.

Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti. Gallery owner, Giangaleazzo Visconti di Modrone.

Collector, Francesco Carraro.

Galerie Patrice Trigano.  Halim Al-Karim, Hidden Love 1, 2009, Lambda print.

 

Photo & Contemporary. A photograph by Patrizia Guerresi Maimouna, better known as Maimouna only, the Italian born photographer, sculptress, and video-maker showed three gigantic photos at the Photo & Contemporary booth.

 Milan based gallery owner, Paola Colombari and photographer, Patrizia Guerresi Maimouna (see above).  Colombari wears a hat embellished with Swarovski crystals, a designer line of hats, called Art Thoughts, which she will be launching during Milan fashion week.

A Detail.  A detail of Paola Colombari’s rings made in gold, silver and marble by Fiammetta Viannelli.

Galeria Ferran Cano. Ferran Cano and sculpture, Jose Cobo. 

Galeria Ferran Cano.  Sculptures by Jose Cobo.

Ben Brown Fine Arts.   Nobuyoshi Araki, Bondages, 2008, Digital C-print on Fuji Crystal archive paper.

Galeria Ferran Cano.  Minnie Mouse sculpture by Samuel Salcedo.

Sperone Westwater. David Leiber director of Sperone Westwater gallery in New York.

Sperone Westwater.   Not Vital’s Audrey Hepburn, 2007, Bruce Nauman, 2007 and Arnold Schoenberg, 2007, silver boxes.  The heights and configuration of the boxes is determined by the date of birth of the subject.

Sperone Westwater. Evan Penny, Panagiota: Conversation #1, Variation 2, 2008, Silicone, pigment, hair, aluminium.

Sperone Westwater. Collector and jewelry designer, Sandra Blei and Sperone Westwater’s Tania Pistone.

 photograph by manfredi bellati
 
Bologna Fiera – Art Restaurant. The Art Restaurant in the Fiera was catered by the Cantina Bentivoglio, which offered a menu in the great Bolognese tradition.

Tortellini and Tortelloni.  Bologna is the city of Tortellini and Tortelloni. The tortelloni, tortellini and tagliatelli are made daily with a rolling pin by professional pasta makers of the Cantina Bentivoglio, who each year are awarded prizes in civic contests.

Marina Prada.

Wanda Galtrucco and Floriana Mentasti.

Lia Rumma.  In the Lia Rumma booth on the wall Joseph Kosuth’s Text for Nothing #21’, 2010, blacked out warm with neon sign and the carpet on the floor is by Marzia Migliora, Quando La Strada Guarda Il Cielo, 2010.

Lia Rumma.   Gallery owner, Lia Rumma juggles two galleries, one in Naples and the other in Milan.

Lia Rumma. Work of art by Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, I want to cleanse my eyelids from history’s tragic glitter, 2005-2010.

Lia Rumma.  Artist, Nicola Pellegrini whose work is featured above.

Lia Rumma.  Milan gallery owner, Carla Pellegrini.

Galerie Jerome de Noirmont.  Jerome de Noirmont is photographed in front of a unique hand-painted photograph by Pierre & Gilles, Une Histoire de Plage, 2009, the model is Marie-France.

Galerie Jerome de Noirmont.  A series of works by McDermott & McGough, inkjet on paper.

Artists, Marco Mazzoni and New York based, Nicola Verlato.

Photology.  Photo gallery owner, Davide Faccioli stands in front of a Gianfranco Gorgoni, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, 1969, Lambda print on Dbond.

Photology. Photographer, Andrea Jemolo is photographed in front of one of his photos of the Maxxi Museum in Rome.

Galleria Fumagalli.   An installation in the Galleria Fumagalli booth by Chiara Lecca called Misses (Irene, Patrizia, Carlotta, Roberta, Fiorenza), 2010, metal, taxidermy, extensions and elastic.

 

Galleria Fumagalli.  A detail of the Chiara Lecca, Misses horses hair installation in the Galleria Fumagalli booth called Roberta.

Galleria Fumagalli.  “Fashionista shovels” to brace New York snow storms by Maurizio Bertinetti called, L’Empire des Lumieres, 2010, paint on metal, wood – detail.

Galleria Continua. Two of the three directors of the Galleria Continua of San Gimignano, Mario Cristiani and Maurizio Rigillo.  In the background a work by Pascale Marthine Tayou.

Galleria Continua. A collage by Pascale Marthine Tayou, Human Being @ Work, 2010, collage, metal frame.

Galleria Continua. Collectors, Paola and Marino Golinelli.

Galleria Continua. Phillips de Pury’s Laura Garbarino who is a specialist in contemporary art. Behind Laura a work made with 5666 wooden matches by Moataz Nasr called Oxymoron (green lion), 2011.

Galleria Continua. Sotheby’s director of modern and contemporary art, Stefano Moreni and art blogger and critic, Michela Moro.  You can follow Michela’s blog on Io Donna’s Leiweb.  They are standing in front of a work by Pascale Marthine Tayou, Tete de Billes 1, 2010.

Luigi Maramotti, Elena Radici, Ludovica Maramotti and Michela Maramotti.

 Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi. Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi directors of the Milanese Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi. 

Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi.   Archi-designer, Alessandro Mendini’s  Magico 3 cabinet.

Gaia Catelli Toninelli and Christie's Venice bureau chief, Bianca Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga.

ProjectB Contemporary Art.  Milan based gallery, Project B Contemporary Art had on show three pieces by Jake and Dinos Chapmans, above, The Old Black Eye no 4., 2010, fiberglass, steel and glass eyes.
 

Michael Hoppen.   London based gallery owner, Michael Hoppen in front of two C type prints by Simon Norfolk.

Michael Hoppen.   C type print called, Large Hadron Collider 1 by Simon Norfolk.

“Streamline” designer, Massimo Iosa Ghini and his wife Milena.

Otto Zoo. Otto Zoo’s Francesca Guerrizio and Maurizio Azzali.

Otto Zoo.  Maria Morganti’s Diaries, Diari 2005-2009, oil on board, 10  x 100 cm each. The artist applies the color used on her own canvases to strips of wood measuring 10 x 100 cm, in a desire to keep an account of everything that happens in her studio. The result is a diary of colors rather than words, starting point of the whole project.

Art expert and historian, Peter Glidewell and entrepreneur, Marina Desserti.

Jewelry designer, Giancarlo Montebello.

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Ca’ di Fra’.   At the Milanese gallery Ca’ di Fra’ Luigi Serafini’s Apollo vincitore sul serpente Pitone Cerasuolo, 2000, Lambda print on Cibachrome.

Guidi & MG Art.  In the Rome based Guidi & MG Art booth artist, Diego Esposito is photographed with his sculpture Dualitudine, 1989-93 in stainless steel, plexiglas and corten steel.

Guidi & MG Art.   Belgium artist, Jan van Oost who says ““Irony is the strategic finesse inherent in my works, the complex ambiguity between horror and seduction...”

Guidi & MG Art.  Salome, 1990 by Jan Van Oost.

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