FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER: ALBERT WATSON

Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Albert Watson studied graphic design and he began his career in 1970 in Los Angeles, Albert’s distinctive style eventually caught the attention of American and European fashion magazines such as Mademoiselle, GQ, and Harper’s Bazaar, which booked him for a shoot with Alfred Hitchcock. In 1976, Albert landed his first job for Vogue, and with his move to New York that same year, his career took off . Watson blending art, fashion and commercial photography into some of the most iconic images ever seen. The photographs create an aura that takes the viewer into the image but simultaneously demands a reverent distance. His striking photographs and stunning hand-made prints are featured in galleries and museums around the world. Over the years, Albert’s photographs have appeared on more than 100 covers of Vogue worldwide and been featured in countless other publications, from Rolling Stone to Time to Harper’s Bazaar many of the photos iconic fashion shots or portraits of rock stars, rappers, actors and other celebrities. Albert also has created the photography for hundreds of ad campaigns for major companies, such as Prada, the Gap, Levi’s, Revlon and Chanel. He has shot dozens of Hollywood movie posters, such as “Kill Bill” and “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and has also directed more than 100 television commercials. All the while, Albert has spent much of his time working on art projects for museum and gallery exhibitions.

POIS S/S 2020

Balmain - Carolina Herrera

Ermanno Scervino - Courrèges 

Maison Margiela - Rodarte

Carolina Herrera - Erdem

Luisa Spagnoli - Marc Jacobs

Richard Quinn - Rodarte

GREEN AND BLUE TOGETHER FOR THIS SPRING

We do not often see green and blue together, in clothing we mean, and yet for this spring some designer has ventured to put them together. Vibrant like those of Marni and Rochas (who uses the skin), or more dark and dull like those by Ferragamo. In any case the unusual chromatic combinations are always interesting, and maybe we will draw inspiration from this proposal.

Marni

House of Holland

Rochas

Salvatore Ferragamo

Versace

THE LIGHT COTTON BY KAREN JOHANSSON

Walking through Paris, under the arches of the galleries of the Palais Royal, I discover this showroom of light cotton clothes, cotton muslin and canvas that bring me back to the linen of the early 900's lingeries. I do a search on the web, but there is almost nothing, I just find that it is an Italian label and the clothes are entirely Italy handmade.
I think back to some typically Positano clothes and wonder if they didn't produce them there

PER LA RECENTE SCOMPARSA DELL'ARTISTA NANDA VIGO

A seguito della recente scomparsa dell'artista Nanda Vigo avvenuta sabato 16 maggio, l’Archivio, fondato per volere della stessa artista nel 2013, continua nell’opera di promozione e di protezione del suo sessantennale lavoro, con mostre importanti quali - solo per citarne alcune recenti - ITALIAN ZERO & avantgarde 60's al MAMM Museum di Mosca nel 2011. Nel 2014/2015 espone al Guggenheim Museum di New York, al Martin-Gropius-Bau di Berlino e allo Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam nelle retrospettive dedicate a ZERO. Tra il 2013 e l'inizio del 2016 realizza diverse personali: Nanda Vigo Lights Forever, Galleria Allegra Ravizza, Lugano, Affinità elette al Centro San Fedele di Milano e in seguito alla Fondazione Lercaro di Bologna, Zero in the mirror alla Galleria Volker Dhiel di Berlino, Nanda Vigo alla galleria Sperone Westwater di New York. Ha partecipato alla XXI Triennale. 21st Century. Design After Design e nel 2016 ha presentato la sua prima opera monumentale, Exoteric Gate, esposta nel cortile Ca' Granda dell'Università degli Studi di Milano. Nel 2017 partecipa alla mostra Fantasy access code a Palazzo Reale di Milano e al K11 Museum di Shanghai in collaborazione con Alcantara, a Socle du Monde. Biennale 2017 all'Heart Museum di Herning in Danimarca e alla mostra Lucio Fontana. Ambienti/Environment a Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milano. Nel 2018 realizza per il MAXXI di Roma in collaborazione con Alcantara la mostra Arch/arcology e inaugura la mostra personale presso la Galleria San Fedele di Milano dal titolo Sky Tracks e Global Chronotopic Experience nello Spazio San Celso di Milano e le mostre collettive Welt ohne Außen. Immersive Spaces since the 1960s al Martin-Gropius-Bau di Berlino, Zero MONA Museum di Hobart in Tasmania, Multiforms a Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù di Venezia, Opere aperte 1955-1975 alla Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera di Barcellona e 100% Italia al Museo Ettore Fico di Torino. Nel 2019 inaugura la mostra personale Nanda Vigo. Light Project a Palazzo Reale, Milano, e le collettive Object of desire. Surrealism and Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein e Mondo Mendini. The World of Alessandro Mendini, Groninger Museum, Groninger. È attualmente in corso la mostra Light project 2020 al museo MACTE di Termoli.
Era lo specchio di convinzioni radicali sull’arte, il design, l’architettura, che Nanda ha contribuito a creare e a consolidare con le sue opere, e con la coerenza a volte scomoda delle sue idee, manifestate senza paura e senza ipocrisia sia negli anni di festosa rivoluzione dell’arte, che nei periodi di riflusso. Spirito intransigente, artista indipendente, ha sempre scelto la sua vita.

FUTURDOME A-I-R | SUMMER IN

FuturDome A-I-R, Artist In Residence, presents Summer In, a residency program that from May 18 to July 31, 2020 allows access to its spaces to four Italian artists.
Four artists who will work in four different rooms of the building, selected according to different compositional and technical needs. The exhibition and work spaces do not provide admission to the public, but allow the artists to reside and, also, to stay, in complete safety and autonomy, within the 2000 square meters of the building in Via Giovanni Paisiello 6. The residence will allow, by appointment, curators, collectors, journalists but also external visitors to attend, both live and through conversations via Instagram and Facebook, the process of elaboration of four new projects.
 Silvia Hell (1983, Bolzano), Domenico Antonio Mancini (1980, Naples), Fabrizio Perghem (1981, Rovereto) and Sara Ravelli (1993, Crema) will have the opportunity to develop new works that will be part of an initial approach and familiarisation with the spaces of FuturDome. In view of future monographic exhibition projects. During the residency, the four artists will have the opportunity to use every element of the building and every material they will be able to appropriate, also relying on the different companies that have interacted with FuturDome in recent years for their productions. At the end of the residency, the final works will be presented, which will be marked and enriched by six meetings, scheduled every ten days, with different professionals, among them: Diego Bergamaschi (collector, art manager), Elena Bordignon (ATP Diary director), Barbara Casavecchia (critic, curator), Annette Hofmann (art dealer, researcher), Claudia Santeroni (curator, coordinator of The Blank), Mauro Mattei (collector, founder of MMAT), Maria Chiara Valacchi (critic, curator). The dates of the meetings between artists and professionals are: Friday, 29 May; Wednesday, 10 June; Thursday, 18 June; Tuesday, 30 June; Thursday, 9 July; Tuesday, 21 July; Thursday, 30 July. Summer In, in the domestic spaces of FuturDome, develops as a dedicated isolation program. Today, through a research on light by Silvia Hell, a delocalization project of Domenico Antonio Mancini’s studio, a sound installation by Fabrizio Perghem and the new sculptures by Sara Ravelli, how could we go back to perceiving space and how will we remember the experience of approaching a work of art? What new message, what new perceptive artwork should the media convey to a small group of people? If virtual reality will be, month after month, superim- posed on the projects dedicated to reality itself, what will be its final result, its final matter? When will a work of art be finished, ready to be exhibited and when will it be considered unfin- ished? And how can one keep up with the expectations of the public, when the mere fact of visiting an exhibition will be considered a considerable effort?

Silvia Hell - Scored Air

Silvia Hell - Air

Silvia Hell - Day Portraits

 Domenico Antonio Mancini - Alterer

 Domenico Antonio Mancini - La periferia vi guarda con odio

 Domenico Antonio Mancini - Landscape

Fabrizio Perghem - Stromboli

Fabrizio Perghem - Le cose da lontano sembrano migliori

Fabrizio Perghem - Marghera

Sara Ravelli

Sara Ravelli

Sara Ravelli