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C’è così tanto potere nell’oscurità: è misterioso, allettante, terrificante. L’immaginazione si scatena quando gli occhi hanno poco a cui aggrapparsi. E l’artista londinese Zulfi Alarakhia ha deciso di usare quel potere nella sua arte.

Zulfi è un artista contemporaneo con uno stile distinto. Usa matite pastello e carboncino per disegnare immagini sorprendenti. Lo sfondo scuro consente al capriccio di creare l’illusione dell’oscurità e delle ombre, e i pastelli luminosi creano la sensazione di una luce brillante. La maggior parte dei suoi disegni sono di donne in parte nascoste nell’oscurità, con una fonte di luce nascosta che proietta una luce brillante su parti del loro corpo o del loro viso. Queste sagome misteriose stimolano l’immaginazione: chi è questa donna? Perché è seminascosta nell’ombra?

“Creo i miei ritratti in maniera semplice ma realistica ma anche con un elemento astratto, quasi come se li decostruissi. Mi piace ritrarre le donne che dipingo come guerriere, per mostrare che sono più forti di quanto credano. Vi mostro potenza e grazia con i segni e le trame del viso. Voglio che le donne sentano l’empowerment e questo si manifesti nel mio lavoro”.

Sfortunatamente, l’artista non ha un sito Web e in precedenza ha cancellato il suo instagram. Questi sono tutti i lavori che ho potuto trovare.

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In 1922, after a sleep that lasted three millennia, Tutankhamun’s tomb emerged intact from the subsoil of the Valley of the Kings with its immense treasure, delivering the charm of the Golden Boy to the world.
There is not only archeology, with a docufilm retracing this extraordinary discovery, on the television schedule from 31 October to 6 November. From the silent revolution of the Carracci brothers to the first time on TV by Guido Reni, here are the appointments with art on the small screen.

Art Rider in Friuli | Courtesy Rai 5

On Rai 5 Andrea Angelucci on the trail of Attila
This week the journey of Rai 5 among the wonders of the beautiful country begins in the company of the young archaeologist Andrea Angelucci. Wednesday 2 November at 9.15 pm the second episode of the new series of Art Rider, the format in search of the lesser-known art places in Italy, accompanies the public from Torcello, one of the oldest and most prosperous settlements in the northern Venetian lagoon, to Monte San Michele, a relief of the Karst between the municipalities of Sagrado and Savogna d’Isonzo, in the province of Gorizia.
Always fascinated by the character of Attila, Andrea sets out on the trail of the limestone seat called “Attila’s throne”, to remember the turbulent events linked to the “Scourge of God” that upset the north-east of Italy. Together with him, the spectator will set off towards a somewhat special “door” that has allowed the Nordic populations to enter Italy. The episode, directed by Francesco Principini and texts by Paolo Fazzini and Chiara Vannoni and by Andrea Angelucci himself, will touch various locations, going through little known and less traveled paths.

The mysteries of Tutankhamun premiered on Su Sky Arte
Thursday 3 November at 5.10 pm a journey made up of special encounters and discoveries in the company of art advisor Marco Riccomini leads face to face with the revolutionary art of the Carracci brothers. Carracci – the silent revolution it tells the essence of what we could consider the first artistic collective in history. Much more than simple painters, we find them in Bologna where they founded the Accademia degli Incamminati, a school in which students learned to focus on the reproduction of the real rather than the plausible. In his journey conceived as a road-mentary, Marco Riccòmini reveals the places where the Carraccis or their works have landed, in a succession of meetings in cafes, bookshops, museums, streets and palaces.
Starting from the four corners of the western world we will arrive in Bologna, where the three Carraccis worked together in the second half of the sixteenth century, in particular at Palazzo Magnani and Palazzo Fava.
Just stay tuned to Sky to not get lost, on Thursday 3 November at 9.15 pm, a first vision signed by Sky Original that leads among the brushes of Guido Reni. For the series Great Masters – a fascinating journey that tells the life of the masters of Italian art through their masterpieces – we meet the Bolognese painter. The perfection of the forms and the otherworldly vision are the dominant motifs of his art that tends towards a metaphysical, abstract world, leading the most rigorous and classicist painter of all the Italian seventeenth century to surprising results. To present it to the public accompanying it among grandiose masterpieces such as theAurorathe Glory of St. Dominicfresco of the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, or the Massacre of the Innocentsexhibited in the National Art Gallery of Bologna, will be the writer Daniele Benati and Barbara Ghelfi, doctor in art history.

Tutankhamun. The last exhibition, inlaid canopic casket dedicated to Imseti and Isis | © Laboratoriorosso Productions

From painting to archeology. Exactly one century after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, on Friday 4 November in the first vision at 9.15 pm, the voice of Manuel Agnelli takes us on a journey to Egypt in the backstage of the last exhibition dedicated to the pharaoh. Directed by Ernesto Pagano Tutankhamun. The last exhibition brings to life on the small screen the magic of a discovery that changed the history of archeology. The starting point of the cinematographic story is the exhibition King Tut. Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which in 2019 saw the wonders discovered around the child king leave for the last time on an international tour. The spectacular images of the photographer Sandro Vannini, the only one in recent years to have had access to the treasure exceptionally exhibited outside the windows, testify how the objects damaged during the 2011 revolution have regained their former glory thanks to the restorations. From the rooms of the Egyptian Museum in Piazza Tarhir, in Cairo, and from the laboratories of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, you can fly to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Griffith Institute in Oxford, on the trail of the archaeological research that, over time, have tried to do light on a figure with uncertain outlines.

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889, Oil on canvas, 95 x 73 cm, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum / Vincent van Gogh Foundation | Courtesy Van Gogh Museum

The week of art on Sky ends among the villages. Sunday 6 November at 9.15 pm in first viewing A mouthful of art accompanies the public in 20 villages of twenty Italian regions in the company of 20 artists, protagonists of the widespread contemporary art project that enhances the encounter between the artistic, historical and landscape heritage of the beautiful country.

On Arte tv Van Gogh superstar
Van Gogh did not paint straight away, but he was very methodical and was inspired above all by Japanese prints, of which he was a great collector, and by the “crust” on canvas by Adolphe Monticelli. It is not true that he never sold paintings while he was alive. As for the gun found in a meadow in Auvers-sur-Oise and bought at auction for 130,000 euros, there is no scientific evidence that he used it to kill himself. These are some of the goodies revealed by the documentary Vincent Van Gogh superstar. The true story of the Dutch painter, which takes its cue from the exhibition at the Het Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Holland) to dispel various myths that do not always do justice to the painter’s work. The real life of the master Van Gogh tells of a person from a bourgeois family, pragmatic, capable of adapting to changes in the art market, but also of a merchant who created with his brother Theo an authentic “corporation” capable of generating income from now 130 years.

With his restless existence, the loose brushstroke, the spirit of adventure akin to that of the impetuous Caravaggio, Parmigianino conceived monumental figures imbued with psychological implications, at the center of a dazzling painting.
The eccentric painter obsessed with drawing, a transversal artist who managed to give the faces the intensity of Goya’s feminine gazes and the photographic pose of the later painting will be the great protagonist of the week on the small screen.
From Goya and Degas to the mysteries of Daunia, a land far from the most touristic routes, beaten with passion by the archaeologist Andrea Angelucci, here are some appointments not to be missed on TV in the week that has just begun.

Edgar Degas, Self-portrait with Evariste de Valernes1864, Paris, Musée d’Orsay

On Sky Arte Parmigianino and Goya
Described by friends as a brilliant man capable of arousing joy, but also terror, in those around him, Edgar Degas was known for the obsessive reworking of his works. A mania that, on many occasions, even led him to ask clients to get his paintings back in order to be able to further retouch them even after having delivered them. Let’s rediscover this artist thanks to the docufilm Degas-Passion and perfection, broadcast on Wednesday 9 November at 12.50 on Sky Arte, an artistic gallop between horses and jockeys, dancers, nudes of women caught in daily activities, and even wax works “from the terrible reality”. Above all, the search for movement and the obsessive intent to grasp the instantaneousness of the present.
On Thursday 10 November at 9.15 pm a first vision instead guides us in the second season of Sky dedicated to Great masters of painting. We thus enter the fascinating universe of Parmigianino, one of the most interesting and disruptive personalities of the Italian sixteenth century. Anticlassic by definition, Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, a point of reference for all those artists who, in the sixteenth century, were looking for new codes and an alternative way of painting, is told on the small screen through Paolo Cova, professor of Art History, and Marcella Culatti , art historian. Get ready for a journey among the frescoes of the first and second left chapel of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma, among those in Rocca Sanvitale (Fontanellato) and among the various portraits and self-portraits of the artist.
On Friday 11 November we ideally reach the halls of the National Gallery in London to rediscover the acclaimed exhibition Goya: the Portraits, led by the first curator Xavier Bray. David Bickerstaff’s film, Goya – Visions of flesh and blood unveils the dramatic life and extraordinary art of the Spanish master by returning to the public a compelling portrait of the painter through opinions of international experts, masterpieces drawn from world-renowned collections and visits to the places where the artist lived and worked. The film also opens the doors of the Prado National Museum in Madrid, the casket of a series of important works such as The family of Charles IVproviding rare access to Goya’s “Italian Notebook”, a sketchbook made in Italy between 1769-1771, which puts viewers face to face with the Spanish artist’s most intimate reflections.

Francisco Goya, The Duke of Wellington, 1812-14, Oil on mahogany, 64.3 x 52.4 cm, London, National Gallery

On Rai 5 among the mysteries of the Daunia
Rai 5’s Wednesday rhymes with Art Rider. On 9 November at 9.15 pm the third episode of the format in search of the lesser known art places in Italy, conducted by the young and dynamic archaeologist Andrea Angelucci, a GA&A Productions production, in collaboration with Rai Cultura, takes us from Manfredonia to Venosa. Andrea will open to the spectators the doors of the Daunia, an area that extends from Puglia to the border with Basilicata and Campania, a mysterious land, far from the most touristic routes.

On Arte tv Albrecht Dürer and the mystery of self-portraits
A precociously talented painter, Albrecht Dürer was born in 1471 in Nuremberg, the “heart” of the Holy Roman Empire. At the age of 13, with the help of a convex mirror, he painted his first self-portrait, at 15 he left his father’s goldsmith’s workshop to enter the studio of the painter Michael Wolgemut. With the passion for engraving in his pocket, a technique developed fifty years earlier and which will favor the diffusion of his works, the artist spent long stays in Basel and Venice, occasions that allowed him to study perspective and the masters of the fifteenth century. Albrecht Dürer: the mystery of self-portraitsbroadcast on Arte tv is a journey through 12 self-portraits that retrace the career of the German painter, celebrating his genius.

Albrecht Dürer Half-length portrait of a young Venetian, 1505, oil on panel, cm. 32.5×24.2. Lender: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum