Gina Lollobrigida Fotografa – Damiani Editore

GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA

Foto di Gina Lollobrigida
Testi di Philippe Daverio Paolo Limiti
Uscita in Italia Giugno 2009
Pagine 320
Formato 24,5×30,5cm
Illustrazioni 280
Rilegatura Brossura con bandelle
ISBN978-88-6208-113-9

The book >>> Gina Lollobrigida, known for his artistic career as an actress international film, grows from year love for painting, sculpture and photography that make him complete.

Since 1959, in fact, the diva film combines the profession, who gave her a celebrity absolutely universal, even intense research in the field of photography, which is also much appreciated by audiences around the world.

In 1973, his first volume, my Italy, received the award “Nadar” as best picture book of the year, with more than 300 thousand copies sold worldwide.

Photographer Gina Lollobrigida presents over 300 images selected from the most representative of their businesses – and extraordinary journeys through countless meetings – witness the talent of this artist to represent places, human affairs, historical and anthropological disparate.

Moving from South of the World West rich, from the most remote peoples of Asia to the powerful of the earth, Gina Lollobrigida reveals a fondness affectionate and has no ideology to mankind of the simple, weak and afflicted.

In 1999, for the effort performed in various humanitarian organizations, was appointed Pirma Ambassador of FAO.

It was also close to UNICEF, UNESCO, to Doctors without Borders, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the children of Romania. Iron personality, tireless traveler, a real femme strength of our age, Gina Lollobrgida in this book presents an overview of pictures made in over twenty countries: India, Philippines, Gina Lollobrigida Visual Art Photographer · Damiani Editore China, Japan, Kenya, Cuba, United States, and of course – with special emphasis and participation – Italy.

In parallel to the depiction of places and people, Gina Lollobrigida also portrays famous personalities from Photographerthe entertainment world, politics, art and customs, including Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Liza Minnelli, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn and many others. The exhibition is complemented by some of the most famous photographic compositions dedicated to children and animals, collected in the volume Inncocenza Magica (1993).

Gina Lollobrigida has published six books on photography, sculpture and shot three of three documentaries: one dedicated to Fidel Castro (1974), one of Indira Gandhi (1976) and one on the Philippines in 35 mm for a period of two hours (1976). In 1980 his photographs have been exhibited in an exhibition at the Musee Carnavalet which has won the “Gold Medal of the City of Paris.” The respected Le Monde wrote, “Gina Lollobrigida is the eye of a Cartier-Bresson, has talent, is full of energy and the photos have a devastating force. It is truly a great artist. “ In 2007, the first in Italy and around the world to be a leader of four stamps of stamps of the Republic of San Marino for his roles as an artist and legend, photographer, sculptor and ambassador FAO.

After the prestigious international awards (the “Legion d’Honneur” received in 1992 by French President François Mitterrand for his work as an artist and actress), after the great exhibitions that celebrated his work as a sculptress (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow, 2003, Musée de la Monnaie in Paris, 2004), after the Open in 2003 in Venice, and the recent exhibition of sculpture in Pietrasanta (2008), October 18, 2008 in Washington received a unanimous decision of the Italian-American Foundation NIAF the “Lifetime Achievement Award” in recognition of his artistic life.

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Giacomo Costa – Damiani Editore

GIACOMO COSTA

The Chronicles of Time, opere di Giacomo Costa

testi di Luca Beatrice, Norman Foster

lingua, italiano-inglese-tedesco

pagine 256/ illustrazioni 140

dimensioni 28 x 24 cm

rilegatura, cartonato diritti, worldwide

prezzo € 35, £29,99, $45,00 ISBN978-88-6208-079-8

uscita, 15 aprile 2009.

THE BOOK>>> The Chronicles of Time is the first book to document Giacomo Costa’ artistic search, follow a route started in the 1996, when the artist start tore-edit his city pictures, landscapes and architectures using digital technics. The result is a series of apocalyptic urban stages, where the apparent realism breeds a strange effect.

In the series of the Buildt-up areas, of the Landscapes, of the Megalopolies, the city bacame rappresentation of the man and of him existential condition. The time is variable and it determines the trasformation and the change, expresses in perticulary in the more recent series, Water and Secret Gardens, where the waterand the greenery take the upper hard on the man’s building ruins. The volume include a Luca Beatrice’s essay and a architector Norman Foster’s preface, it’has got some artist’s works.

THE ARTIST>>> Giacomo Costa was born in Firenze in 1970. He studied violin since he had 14 years old, subsequently he attended the classic high school but he droped it to follow his passions: motorbike, montaineer and mechanic. Come back in his city, in the ‘90 he approched to photograpy and he dicided to open a photograpy studio dedicated himself toportraiture.

In ‘96 his artistic search led him to tail the traditional photograpy with digital technics. Since 1997 he showed in several exihbitions in Italy and aboad. In 2009 he is one of selection artists to exihbit in the “Collaudi” Exihbition, edited by Beatrice Buscaroli and Luca Beatrice,set up in the new Padiglione Italia in the 53th Biennale of Venice.

Nothing studio

Office cardboard

Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that has just opened its doors in Amsterdam. While the city houses the KesselsKramer agency in a fairly unconventional building – a nineteenth-century church – the Nothing office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard.

They sent us some great pictures of the space, which was created by designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg…

The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.

But Nothing aren’t going to be prissy about the clean lines of designer cardboard that surrounds them. Apparently, the walls will double as a blank canvas with visitors encouraged to leave their mark on the surfaces. Indeed, illustrator Fiodor Sumkin was the first to liven up Nothing’s predominantly brown colour scheme with some well-crafted penmanship.

And when they get bored by the accumulated daubings, the studio can presumably replace individual sections of their workspace for, well, nothing much at all.

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Open minded ‘60’s – Fashion photographers e graphic designers

A close-up shot of a female hand, with perfectly painted nails, that holds a cigarette between red full lips.
..It’s quite an allusive image and it’s a symbol of late ‘60’s open-mindedness. This climate has now been celebrated in the first monograph about Harry Peccinotti, a fashion photographer, graphic designer, and artist who has deeply influenced fashion and imagination of that period.

It doesn’t matter if they are objects for men’s glance or if they’re protagonists of sexual revolution: women are without dispute the main characters of this book. They’re sexy, sporty, independent, portraited on paradise beaches or on original fashion sets… women always represented the main subjects for Peccinotti’s works.

From the famous picture of the sunflower for Pirelli calendar for year 1968 to the nude in a bath full of green water, H.P. presents a wide selection of photos published on fashion magazines , together with pages and cover for books and disks created by Peccinotti in about 40 years. Apart from Nova, one of the most influencing magazine in the ‘60’s as concerns graphhic, formats and photo editing, Harri Peccinotti (1938) has been Flair, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Vogue’s art director. He has first introduced coloured women in fashion photos. He has become famous as a photographer thanks to Pirelli calendars (for years 1968 and 1969) and, as a designer, thanks to restyling of French newspaper Le Matin, in the ‘70’s.

Silvia Bragagnolo

My name is Silvia Bragagnolo. I was born in  Castelfranco Veneto in 1971, I graduated  in architecture in I.U.A.V. in Venezia between a project and other I always took care to pry into rubbish bins…

Today I live and work in Castelfranco  where,for passion, in my laboratory-storage of  “neat”  rubbishes,  I create more and crazy objects gathering everythink I can do relive, so creating new shapes with a own live.

…I don’t know exactly where this my desire toempty the rubbish bins was born  to relive that it was eliminate.

Object that can be beautiful, useful and live a long timewithuot became a part of the montain of rubbish choke uor plane, materials jet existent, resistante and indistructible, they can be  any shapes.

…This is only a little drop, but the hope is that my work, like more other disigners, artists, architects and crazy creators, could service to understeand as our rubbish of every day can continues to live with other  meaning, other function, other look…

…A  little bit as Pinocchio, from a plastic bottle can born a little animal, or a ashtray, or a solid stool, or a flowers vaser, or a simple papertay. At this mode  miciovinicio was born, un pussycat born from the end of a plastic bottle, and now it’s the name of all my work.

…This passion arrives from far, when I was a child I builded lille trains withmatch boxes, and big sponges i trasformed in little soft dolls… or I used my stockingto do little mice. I always attracted to all trasform objects… and is it that I continue to do today.

At University, in my days in library to watch architecture and design magazines, I started to find this strange passion had a name, more names:  re-use, art of recycle, design of recycle,creative recycle, re-design…some designers used “rubbish” and poor materialsfor their crations…from the cardboard armchair to the container houses.

I tried to do my thesis abuot the re-use,but I can’t find interesting teachers about this theme too. So desided to continue my work and I don’t stop me…  I want to follow this passion and so I started to do complety of fornitures with cardboard , I passed to plastic bottles,and to their particular shapes, easy to trasform.

I started to madesome candlesticks, some flowers, mirror frames, then I interested the plastic bottle,their trasparency and their particolar shapes, because you can trasform them easly with a catter or a pair of scissors, a hard glue and color; tables with tubes of cardboard, lamps of bin of coffee or plastic botlles, mirrors from old  record, bags of  PVC..etc.

…A day I asked me why not involve the smaller (children) and the bigger (adults), with my passion and so,from more  years,  I go in the schools, cultural centres, squeres, the exhibitions with full sacks with rubbish to trasform and start again to live…

www.miciovinicio.it

ArtificialOwl

Forgotten creations

The time that passes on abandoned objects man, makes them a kind of contemporary wrecks covered with moss, rust and dust. Places mysterious to explore such as factories, cemeteries cars, trucks and airplanes. Site Artificial Owl collects images of the places most fascinating ˘ world. Here are a few.

Loredana Mantello

“Photography is like a therapy for me, it’s food for my soul. It’s my homeland, my friend, my paradise, my harmony, my peace, my happiness. My thoughts look for a refugee in it. I’m so curious that I can’t wait my black and white photos to be printed, just like I couldn’t wait when I was in the dark room. I examine them, I caress them just like a child’s face, I can feel them under my nails, it’s a wonderful sensation. I observe them from afar, and then watch them closely to catch their essence, their feeling, their spirit: and I find them there. I admire them for some minutes, then put them in a drawer, to watch it again later; and I feel it’s still alive, and I fall in love with it once more.” Loredana Martello is an Italian free lancer photographer who has decided to concentrate on Middle Eastern countries. Her works have been exhibited both in Italy and abroad. To fulfil her wish to catch moments her eyes and mind record, but that are difficult to be painted, or told, she uses her photo camera has her mean of expression. All her images express how she felt, her perceptions, her emotions, her world. Loredana is an explorer of souls and of Middle Eastern people. In her collection “Ballet in Monochrome”, she has tried to fix the appeal and elegance of human body, sensuality of veiled women’s black eyes and delicate details of henna draws painted on their skin, that all evoke something mysterious. Loredana’s exploration goes on the collection “Water, wind, waves”, where she explores the dramatic visual and physical interaction among cloth, wind and water and whatever surrounds them. “Look in depth and you’ll find hidden answers, but here they are…for those who know how to see them.”

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Riciclarte: The art of the recycle

Remarkable and stimulating meeting point for those italian artists’ communities that consider recycle as a basis for their own art, Riciclarte is a virtual space that allows to exhibit one’s artistic creation, where one can meet other creatives for exchanging ideas and information. Moreover there’salso a sapce where it’s possible to promote the personal and collective exhibition.

 

 

 

Adeart is a laboratory in Bolzano that realizes ecological bags and accessories, full-blown unique pieces created using recuperated material, as for example truck’s inner tubes.Heart and soul of this project is Heidi Ritsch, born in 1973, that units her extraordinary creative gifts with a deep consciousness of the bnecessity of informing and make more aware the world of recycle market.

www.adeart.it

 

 

Elisabetta Pescucci

a myriad of “lost identity” objects : that’s the raw material of Elisabetta’s creations, very odder trash jewelry, a mix between microsculptures and contemporary cheap trinkets. The unique instruments are pliers and wire cutters, for giving new life to tinfoil, chewing gum, lego, stained glass, plugs..

BASQUIAT – and the ghost to fight-off

In Rome it starts in these days the retrospective that pays tribute, with works and inedited photos, to this famous american artist.

Jean-Michel had a lot of ghosts to fight against. The title of the exhibition set up in Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome) retrieving that of one Basquiat pictures’series, immediately frames this character, that has been man nothing much but who will remain artist forever.

He grew up in NYC, he dead at 27 years old for heroin’s overdose; at the age of 7 he was invested by a car and, in the corse of convalescente he became excited by the most popular anatomy manual in the world, Gray’s Anatomy.

Fondazione Memmo presents more than 50 works (also some inedited), centred on Basquiat’s fragmented vision of human body and the complexity of the man himself. This perspective involves many basic themes widely revealing about the artist’s soul, as for example, the urban space so intensely experienced, his modus operandi, the graffiti art, his afro-caribbean origins, his fears and insecurities olf young musicien and painter. There is not any ties in his obsessive object’s repetition: skeletons, limbs’ fragments, cars, skyscrapers, toys, black heroes, writings, a crown, a clear self-assertion symbol. We can read a worls shattered by his own draw, incoherent but, at the same time, evident proofs of a lost innocente, a primitive and ritual representation of his world, made of delirium and marginalization.

Michael Halsband, the author of the 5 unpublished photos exhibited and Basquiat’s trusted friend, maintains that drug and alchool have been palliative for the frustration of “a black in this world”, using Basquiat’s words. Therefore, also his art appears as a sort of catharsis, for fightin off ghosts of a life lived between drugs and racism.

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