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Charles Brooks è specializzato in fotografie di musicisti classici e strumenti musicali. Le sue foto hanno vinto numerosi premi e sono utilizzate da alcuni dei musicisti più famosi del mondo in sale da concerto e teatri d’opera a livello internazionale.

“Foto sorprendenti rivelano i dettagli nascosti all’interno degli strumenti musicali. Sono un fotografo che svela la bellezza e la complessità di questi spazi invisibili utilizzando lenti speciali per sonde e complesse tecniche di imaging. Ogni foto è una miscela di centinaia di fotogrammi. La nitidezza e il dettaglio senza precedenti rendono questi spazi come vaste stanze, esponendo i segni degli strumenti dei creatori, le riparazioni effettuate nel corso dei secoli e l’architettura nascosta all’interno.

Scelgo strumenti rari con storie affascinanti: un violoncello colpito da un treno, un didgeridoo scavato dalle termiti, uno squisito pianoforte a coda Fazioli realizzato a mano da 11.000 singole parti. Ogni strumento viene fotografato centinaia di volte con lunghezze focali sempre crescenti. Questi fotogrammi vengono poi accuratamente fusi insieme per formare un’unica immagine. La chiarezza e le prospettive scelte con cura inducono la mente a credere che lo spazio sia molto più grande della realtà. Un violoncello di 240 anni sembra l’interno di un’antica nave, un sassofono secolare diventa un tunnel spalancato di verde e oro, i tasti di un pianoforte diventano un tempio monolitico. – Carlo Brooks

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Finalmente c’è un prodotto per chi ama dire “Il mio lavoro mi sta uccidendo!” o per coloro che vogliono mostrare come ci si sente a partecipare all’ennesimo incontro inutile di 2 ore che avrebbe potuto essere una semplice e-mail.

Seriamente, anche se queste sedie sono probabilmente realizzate come un commento sociale su come ci stiamo uccidendo al lavoro, quindi sono state progettate per assomigliare alle bare. Non sembrano comodi, probabilmente non vorresti passare l’eternità con loro. Tuttavia, essere a disagio è un piccolo prezzo da pagare per avere un bell’aspetto quando si partecipa alla conferenza annuale sui vampiri.

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Queste sedie sono una giustapposizione interessante perché morti nella terra o vivi in ​​ufficio sono gli ultimi due posti in cui una persona normale vorrebbe essere. Queste sedie da bara stanno urlando: “Esci da questa orribile illuminazione fluorescente, esci, sii libero!”

La nostra unica vera lamentela è quanto poco bracciolo ci sia. I braccioli spessi e imbottiti sono molto meglio! Bene, queste sedie non servono ad attutire i gomiti, però. Stanno per ricordarti la fugacità della vita. Ogni momento è prezioso; accarezza spesso i tuoi cani, vai a prendere un gelato, viaggia, gioca ai videogiochi, goditi la vita finché puoi.

Fabrizio Plessi, Todi Today, 2022, drawing

It starts on August 26 with the inauguration, in Piazza del Popolo, of the monumental work Todi Today, a 12 meter high digital fountain with its continuous cycle of rise and fall. This sort of double-sided electronic monolith that will light up every evening to stay off during the day, standing out in the square like an enigmatic presence, winks with its mighty silhouette at the verticality of the towers of Todi, interacting with the Columns of Beverly Pepper and with the Steli by Arnaldo Pomodoro, installed in past years on the occasion of the Arts Festival.

From 27 August to 25 Septemberthe Sala delle Pietre of Palazzo del Popolo will instead be the seat of the personal of Plessi, Projects of the world. Presented simultaneously with the opening of the Todi Festival, the exhibition will include large-scale paintings made in 2013 and never exhibited in Italy. These works, inspired by cities such as Rome, Bombay, Nagoya, Kyoto, Mallorca, give life to a collage of sketches, projects, evocative notes of video installations that are actually realized or only imagined. Very close to the suggestions of the Prisons by Piranesi, in black and white, these works embody the projection of dreams and fantasies of an artist who has always linked the practice of drawing to the mood of places, lights, history.

Fabrizio Plessi, Projects of the world, 2014, Mixed technique on canvas

Finally, the Roman cisterns will be the frame of Secret Water, a sculpture composed of four columns of electronic water, created specifically for the underground space and which will remain permanently, becoming part of the cultural heritage of the city. In these large vertical ledwalls, the theme of water returns with the aim of historically reconstructing the ancient route for supplying the city. In this way, contemporary art is a bridge between past and future, strongly rooted in everything that is archaic and ancestral.

Secret Water, Todi Today And Projects of the world they will be conceived as a single large exhibition by Fabrizio Plessi divided into three different places in the city, in a “futuristic and visionary dialogue between history and contemporaneity, electronic flows and stones, scenarios from the world and cultural identities”.

Fabrizio Plessi, Projects of the world, 2014, mixed media on canvas

“For Plessi – explains Marco Tonelli – the crossing of genres, the hybridization of materials, the exaltation of the graphic sign as a seismograph of the times are elements that characterize his idea of ​​art, thought and creativity, in a continuous exchange of energy that from the seventies to today he has been a protagonist on the international scene as a video artist and video sculptor who has been able to update the technological equipment without changing the poetic conception of the world “.

During the festival, the public will be able to participate in a series of guided tours and free workshops for families. During the’Urban Art Tour (Saturday 27 August and Saturday 3 September) expert guides will accompany the participants from the Beverly Pepper Park to the center of Todi to admire the installations by Fabrizio Plessi, on an urban journey to discover contemporary art.
Sunday 28 August and Sunday 4 September the Kids Art Dayin the Beverly Pepper Park, will offer a journey through history and nature, inviting children and families to participate in a series of workshops in the presence of professional educators.

Fabrizio Plessi, Secret Water2022, drawing

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On World Photography Day, which occurs today, 19 August, the same day when the daguerreotype, his ancestor, was born 184 years ago, the mind is racing to the next autumn events that celebrate the great names of the eighth art.
Here are four appointments for goal enthusiasts to mark on the agenda.

Ron Galella, superstar paparazzo, arriving in Conegliano
“A good photo has to portray a famous person who is doing something not famous. That’s why my favorite photographer is Ron Galella ”.
Andy Warhol thought so about one of the most famous paparazzi in the history of photography, who passed away on April 30 at the age of 91. From 7 October to 29 January over 120 photographs will be at the center of the exhibition entitled Ron Galella, superstar paparazzo. The photographer of the starswaiting in Conegliano, in the halls of Palazzo Sarcinelli.
From the lens of Galella, born in New York in the Bronx neighborhood in 1931 to an Italian father originally from Muro Lucano, in Basilicata, and an Italian-American mother, passed, from 1965 onwards, the great characters of his time, almost always immortalized by surprise, unbeknownst to them and often against their will. Stolen images taken in bursts, the result of stalking, misdirection, camouflage, see protagonists Jackie Kennedy – who brought him two lawsuits – and again Marlon Brando, who with a fist broke his jaw and five teeth, also paying a very salty compensation through the his lawyers, and then Lady Diana, Aristotle Onassis, Sophia Loren, Gianni Agnelli, Gianni and Donatella Versace.
The best of its archive, which houses over three million shots, is preparing to reach Palazzo Sarcinelli in view of the exhibition organized by the SIME BOOKS publishing house. The highlight of the exhibition will be the room entirely dedicated to Jackie Kennedy Onassis, whom Galella called “my obsession” and in which a copy of the famous “Windblown Jackie” will be exhibited.

Ron Galella, Michael Jackson and Madonna, March 25, 1991, West Hollywood, California 63rd Academy Awards Party

Autumn in Rovigo is marked by Robert Capa
A journey through the representations of the war that forged the legend of Capa, but also among what Raymond Depardon calls “weak times” – moments focused on human beings, their nature and their personality – is about to welcome guests of Palazzo Roverella. From 8 October to 25 February Rovigo welcomes the exhibition Simply Robert Capathe new appointment with international photography, curated by Gabriel Bauret, proposed by the Cassa di Risparmio di Padova and Rovigo Foundation.
About 130 photographs selected from the archives of the Magnum Photos agency will scan a monographic whose secret is all contained in the adverb “simply”. “Simply” because this exhibition, far from wanting to be exhaustive, wants to tell, through images, some facets of a passionate and in any case elusive character, who does not hesitate to risk his life for his reportage. And the public is invited to grasp the role of Capa as a historical witness, inseparable from the commitment to a cause that is partly motivated by the photographer’s origins.
In addition to the photographs, mainly in black and white, it will be possible to admire the reproductions of contact sheets and pages of Robert Capa’s notebooks, the publications of his reportages in the French and American press, the extracts of his texts on photography, which touch on topics such as blur , distance, profession, political commitment, war.

Mario Cresci, Minimum # 7, 2020

An “In-Attesa” Italy is told in Reggio Emilia
A suspended, forbidden Italy, transformed by the first lockdown caused by Covid is about to tell its story, in the rooms of Palazzo da Mosto, in Reggio Emilia, through 12 photographic stories where space, environment and architecture show to become “other “When man does not live there. Masters of the lens such as Olivo Barbieri, Antonio Biasiucci, Silvia Camporesi, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Ilaria Ferretti, Guido Guidi, Andrea Jemolo, Francesco Jodice, Allegra Martin, Walter Niedermayr and George Tatge will be, from 15 October to 8 January, at the center of the “Italy in-waiting” path, where squares, landscapes, horizons and public spaces, but also works of art and everyday objects tell the sublime beauty with the perception of a profound crisis. These partial, subjective stories introduce us to new points of view, modifying the usual narrative poetics of physical space. Called by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, through the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity, to reflect with a project on the exceptional condition of Italy in the months of March-May 2020, the artists have given life to a story choral and polyphonic.
If Francesco Jodice makes a reportage through four architectures that are symbolic of historical and contemporary Italian culture through images captured by the satellite, Mario Cresci turns his gaze now to the micro-world of his home in Bergamo, now to the external one, represented by a deserted city, while the surreal images of the mountain landscapes dear to Walter Niedermayr, usually worn out by mass tourism, become ghostly in the absence of human presence.

Robert Doisneau, Le baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris 1950 © Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau on display in Turin
Starting from 11 October, and until 14 February, Camera – Italian Center for Photography in Turin will re-launch the great retrospective dedicated to Robert Doisneau, with over 130 images coming from the collection of the Atelier Robert Doisneau. The famous kiss of a young couple, indifferent to the crowd of passers-by and the traffic of the place de l’Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the iconic work of the French photographer, will be the fulcrum of a journey that enhances Doisneau’s empathic and ironic gaze. By capturing the daily life of the men, women, children of Paris and its banlieue, the master returned emotions and gestures. The images received in the path curated by Gabriel Bauret testify to his style capable of mixing curiosity and imagination.

Palazzo Reale celebrates Richard Avedon
A model wrapped in an overcoat with a fur collar and wide sleeves sits in the seat of a convertible next to a hatbox, a bouquet of roses and a rolled-up dog. The courteous expression and the distracted air suggest an idea of ​​innocence.
This is just one of the intense shots by Richard Avedon, one of the masters of twentieth century photography, protagonist of the exhibition in Milan Richard Avedon: Relationships that retraces it, from 22 September to 29 Januaryat Palazzo Reale, over sixty years of career through 106 images from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson (USA) and the Richard Avedon Foundation (USA).
The path, curated by Rebecca Senf, also features a section dedicated to the collaboration between Richard Avedon and Gianni Versace, which began with the campaign for the 1980 spring / summer collection and ended with the 1998 spring / summer collection, the first designed by Donatella Versace.
Thanks to his gaze, Avedon was one of the few photographers to interpret the Versace avant-garde, illustrating the style and elegance of the Italian designer, as well as his radical fashion. The itinerary, divided into ten sections, is built around the two most significant figures of his research: fashion photographs and portraits.
Avedon creates highly descriptive portraits that bring the observer closer to the subjects represented, allowing the observer to scrutinize the details of the face, placing it at a distance generally reserved for spouses, lovers, children, parents.

Richard Avedon, Nastassja Kinski, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1981 © The Richard Avedon Foundation

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