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Larysa Bernhardt ha una visione artistica unica, come evidente nelle falene tessili splendidamente ricamate che crea.

“Creo bellissimi compagni silenziosi per la tua casa, attenti ma per nulla giudicanti… la loro presenza silenziosa è la magia di cui ogni casa ha bisogno. Ho sempre lavorato con tessuti bellissimi e dopo anni ho accumulato tanti pezzi avanzi di diversi progetti, pezzi di bulloni e scarti di moda. Biancheria e ricchi velluti, arazzi e ikat… sembrava che ci fosse ancora un po’ di vita in loro… potenziale non riconosciuto. Faccio cose usando questi pezzi disadattati, cose magiche, cose con le ali… o, per lo meno, pinne”, dice.

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“A crazy project” like this James Bradburne, director of the Brera Art Galleryhe describes Peregrin and the Giant Fishthe film of which he is the author and which will be presented to the Milanese public on 26, 27, 28 December in the cinemas of the Anteo circuit (ANTEO Palazzo del Cinema and CITYLIFE Anteo spazioCinema), while from 30 December it will be available to the general public on BreraPlusthe streaming platform of the Brera Art Gallery.

It is certainly an unconventional and visionary film, which fully bears the stamp of its author. One immediately thinks that it will be difficult to accept the day when James Bradburne will have to leave his office at Brera. Within seven years, he conquered the public and his collaborators with the power of his overview and insight.

Peregrin and the Giant Fish is a tale set to music that has the Peregrin puppet as its protagonist traveling towards a better world on the back of a goldfish, and is inspired by the illustrated fable that Tom Siedmann-Freud published in 1923.

The work reads on several levels, revealing the complexity of Bradburne’s gaze on the museum’s mission: it is a declaration of love for children’s creativity, but at the same time a tribute to his predecessors. The plot of the work unites through a common thread the visionary inspirations of the famous directors who guided the Pinacoteca throughout the twentieth century, amid happy discoveries and cultured references.

Peregrin and the Giant Fish follows the collaboration between the director Frank Russoli and the artist Bruno Munari to create workshops for children, wink at the will of Fernanda Wittgens to make Brera a “living museum”, pays homage to the passion of Conrad Ricci (director at Brera from 1898 to 1903) for puppets as an expression of innovation and creativity.

An unhappy Peregrin leaves his black and white world and awakens in a utopian and colorful island where money is unknown, where everyone gets what they need and works together for the common good. A message of hope suitable for instilling new lifeblood into souls dejected by the recent pandemic and war.

Written at a complex moment in German history, at the time of the Weimar Republic, when inflation was skyrocketing, the flu pandemic just ended and the Great War just ended. Peregrin and the Giant Fish reflects the dream of a better world.

The illustrated book bears the signature of Martha Siedmann-Freud, the granddaughter of the father of psychoanalysis who as a teenager boldly made the decision to call herself Tom, aware that being a woman represented a disadvantage for her career. Passionate Zionist: Tom Siedmann-Freud had a vision of dreams and utopias, fueled by a great tenderness that he poured into his stories for children.

“In general, if a book is just for children, it’s not a good book,” says James Bradburne. And in fact Peregrin’s adventure is not a childish work nor a reduction of complexity as Disney usually does. “It is the celebration of a new renaissance for puppets. Great writers and directors in the 1920s made use of puppets to give an abstract form to emotions and to create a theater of ideas and symbols. They are not just a vehicle for children, puppets are a symbol of the theatre”.

The production, the result of an intense collaboration with Andrea Melis for the music, Francesco Fei for the direction and the company Carlo Colla & Figli – Grupporiani association for puppets, should also be understood as a new way of making a museum. “Since September 2020, the business model of the Pinacoteca di Brera has moved from tickets to subscriptions” adds Bradburne. “Today the Brera Plus online platform is much more than Netflix and has to feed itself with new projects. Brera Plus is our museum when the building is closed. It is the Pinacoteca outside the museum and the works in its collection”.

“It’s a journey that has crossed many things” says Andrea Melis who worked alongside Clive Britton, artistic director of the music project. The idea of ​​creating a film from the story of Freud’s niece that was an opera and at the same time a fairy tale for adults and children arose in conjunction with the performance of Schubert’s Winterreise in April 2022 in the Sala Maria Teresa of the Braidense Library in Brera. “The war in Ukraine had just begun and there were many suggestions. There were various writes and rewrites, because we didn’t want to make a play for children. It is a little opera which is also a journey into the music of the 1900s. The music is confronted with shaped images, the puppets are in fact angular creatures. An attempt has been made to give a sound configuration to colour. Peregrin’s is a journey contrary to that of Orpheus who had descended from the light into hell. Peregrin is a reassuring character.”

“It was an unmissable opportunity” adds Franco Colla. “We worked by subtraction. The fixity of the faces of the puppets had to bring the sculpture and the light back to the graphic sign of Tom Siedmann-Freud’s illustration.”

An ambitious adventure that represents a new way of thinking about the museum in a different and uncommon way.

“Fairy’s Dress” utilizza fiori e foglie che sbocciano nel giardino, come viole del pensiero, gloria mattutina, rose, garofani, doppi fiori di ciliegio e altro ancora per realizzare abiti da fata.

L’artista giapponese ventenne Momotsuki ha condiviso con Panda annoiato come la sua passione per la natura e l’interesse per il fantastico l’hanno ispirata a creare qualcosa di unico: “Faccio giardinaggio da circa 14 anni da quando ero bambina, e nel tempo ho gradualmente aumentato il numero di piante. Ho sempre ammirato il mondo fantastico e quando ho visto l’esistenza delle fate, ho pensato: “questo, per qualche motivo, mi emoziona”.

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From the gracious grace of Paola Agosti, queen of the shot, to the visions of Umberto Boccioni, the Art Night journey dedicated to art in all its forms returns to entertain the Rai 5 audience with many new features.
The program by Silvia De Felice, and Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, Alessandro Rossi, directed by Andrea Montemaggiori, returns to channel 23 with a new day of programming and a schedule that will range from photography to painting until June architecture to street art.
The new season, which began on 14 December with the first episode dedicated to Achille Castiglioni, architect and designer, twenty years after his death, has many new features in store, starting from the broadcast day which will be on Wednesday at 21.15 and no longer on Friday.

Endless Titian | Courtesy Art Night

Each week, under the guidance of Neri Marcorè, Art Night will move between Titian’s brushes and Banksy’s graffiti, Boccioni’s visionary power and the timeless beauty of the Venus de Milo, weaving an exceptional story along the common thread of colours, to discover that art is a lens that allows you to look at the world from many different perspectives: light and profound, ironic and dramatic, passing through everything that feeds our imagination.
“A journey into art which is also a journey into our soul. After all, since prehistoric times man has felt the need to represent himself and his life in an image that would leave a sign of his passage. Today, after thousands of years, art is the highest expression of this need: and art is essential for us to understand who we are”.

Wednesday 28 December at 9.15pm premiered on Rai 5, Art Night invites you on a journey into the universe of the Turin photographer Paola Agosti. Neri Marcorè presents Paola Agosti the world in one clicka documentary written and directed by Claudia Pampinella in collaboration with Daniele Cini for Talpa Produzioni, in co-production with Rai Cultura and in collaboration with Rai Teche, and with Zadig Productions, made with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte – Piemonte Doc Film Fund and Piemonte region.

Paola Agosti, Argentina, 1981 | Courtesy Art Night

The public is invited to browse the professional and biographical path of one of the most significant and appreciated Italian photographers of the twentieth century, who, like few others, was able to grasp and bear witness to the wave of the Italian feminist movement of the seventies and the irruption of women into the political scene as social subjects. Through Agosti’s lens we will follow major political events and movements such as the election of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1970, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974, the Beat Generation in America, the struggles of workers and students, the end of peasant civilization in Piedmont in the footsteps of Nuto Revelli, Piedmontese emigration to Argentina. In her iconic shots we find Andy Warhol and Orson Welles, but also the Italians Pietro Consagra, Giorgio De Chirico, Leonardo Sciascia.

Neri Marcorè | Courtesy Art Night

From film to brush. Another date to mark on the small screen art agenda is January 4 when Art Night will broadcast Endless Titian, a documentary by Luca and Nino Criscenti, produced by Land Produzioni. We will follow Vecellio’s artistic journey, from the Cadore mountains to Venice where he arrives with brushes imbued with the colors and landscapes of his land and where he manages to collect the legacy of a great pictorial tradition, absorbing Giovanni Bellini’s innovations and working alongside next to Giorgione on the frescoes of the Fondaco dei Tedesco.

Spectators will follow the extraordinary epic of the Cadore artist up to his last marks on the canvas, throughout the Renaissance, up to his legacy which will be collected by the greatest masters of European painting, from Rubens to Caravaggio, from Rembrandt to Velazquez, from Delacroix to the French Impressionists.
To tell the artistic itinerary of the master of Pieve di Cadore will be the three leading experts of Venetian painting present in Italy: Enrico Dal Pozzolo, Augusto Gentili, Stefania Mason, accompanied by the music of Matteo D’Amico who made the relationship between music, poetry and art, his very personal stylistic code.
Myths, loves, sorrows, which illuminate the altarpieces like the portraits, will come to life in a chronological journey that turns the spotlight on many of his masterpieces, to follow an itinerary made up of sudden turns and surprising transformations, from the brilliance of the early years to the disintegration of the pictorial material in the works of old age.

Frame from Formidabile Boccioni | © ARTE.it

Subsequently, on dates to be defined, Art Night will pay homage to Umberto Boccioni, 140 years after his birth, with Formidable Boccioni, the unpublished documentary written by Eleonora Zamparutti and Piero Muscarà and directed by Franco Rado, a work produced by ARTE.it Originals in collaboration with ITsART and Rai Cultura. From the story on the life and works of the futurist artist through exclusive interviews with the leading experts, collectors and directors of the major museums that house Boccioni’s masterpieces, accompanied by a variety of documents, films and original period materials, the Art Night agenda will lead us into the universe of Luigi Ghirri and again in the bright paths of beauty through an original series entitled The colors of art. Stay tuned!