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Risalto
RisAlto is an international exposition of contemporary art that was organized annually in the medieval castle of Camino, Piedmont, between 2001 and 2010. The project is an idea of the artists Marco Porta and Mari Brignolo. Risalto was the first modern art exhibition in the world that presented mosaics reproduced exclusively in coloured rice. International artists were invited to design the mosaics, that were then produced by the creators of the event in collaboration with the artists. Technique The production of the mosaic is a long and complicated process that requires precision and patience. Every year the project starts with the invitation of some selected artists, whose task is to create a stub: usually a drawing or a painting or just criteria for the production of the mosaic. The artist's work is then enlarged and copied on the support 2 metres square. The next step is the colouring of the rice, in the various colours and tones needed, dipping it into a bath of aniline, Acry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private fortified house, fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a mansion, palace, and villa, whose main purpose was exclusively for ''pleasance'' and are not primarily fortresses but may be fortified. Use of the term has varied over time and, sometimes, has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain wall (fortification), curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace. European-style castles originated in the 9th and 10th centuries after the fall of the Carolingian Empire, which resulted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Omar Galliani
Omar Galliani (born 1954) is an Italian painter and a retired professor from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Brera Academy) in Milan. Life and career Omar Galliani graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in Bologna. He taught as full professor of painting at the Brera Academy until he retired. In 1979, invited by Luciano Francalanci for the Italy section, he received the "Faber Castell Prize" at the first International Drawing Triennial at the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg. His works were shown at the Biennale of Venice in 1982, 1984 and 1986, in the São Paulo Biennials in Brazil and in Paris, in contemporary art museums in Japan and at the Bradford Biennial 7th British International Print (1982). His works are included in the permanent collections of museums, including the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin, and the Museum national exhibition of China NAMOC in Beijing. In 2018, Galliani donated one of his self-portraits to the Uffizi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emilio Tadini
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Emilio may refer to: * Emilio Navaira, a Mexican-American singer often called "Emilio" * Emilio (given name) * ''Emilio'' (film), a 2008 film by Kim Jorgensen See also * Emílio (other) * Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a variant of the given names Emil (other), Emil, Emilio (other), Emilio and Emílio (other), Emílio, and may refer to: *Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor *Aimilios Papathanas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alex Pinna
Alex is a given name. Similar names are Alexander, Alexandra, Alexey or Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people * Alex Cook (other), multiple people * Alex Forsyth (other), multiple people *Alexander Gardner (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multiple people *Alex Harris (other), multiple people *Alex Jones (other), multiple people *Alexander Johnson (other), multiple people * Alex Lee (other), multiple people *Alex Taylor (other), multiple people Politicians *Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat *Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician *Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician *Alex Salmond (1954–2024), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland Baseball players *Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player *Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Freeland (born 2001), American baseball player *Alex Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ugo Nespolo
Ugo Nespolo (born 29 August 1941 in Mosso, Biella) is an Italian artist, painter, sculptor, filmmaker and writer. He lives and works in Turin. Life and works Nespolo graduated at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin with Enrico Paulucci and obtained a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Turin, with a thesis on Semiology. His career as an artist started in the 1960s. His work was influenced by Pop Art, which was becoming popular in Italy in those years, conceptual art, Arte Povera and Fluxus. He had a chance to see and appreciate closely these movements during a trip to the United States in 1967. He would then continue to regularly visit the States, where he would spend long periods of time, especially during the 1980s. Irony and transgression became key element in Nespolo's art and characterised his work for many years to come. Since 2010 he has been member of the Honour Committee of "Immagine & Poesia", an artistic literary movement founded in Turin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Giorgio Griffa
Giorgio Griffa (born in Turin, 29 March 1936) is an Italian abstract painter living and working in Turin. Biography Giorgio Griffa never received a formal art education. He began painting as a child, taking lessons from local painters at the Circolo degli Artisti in Turin. After completing a degree in law in 1958, Griffa became a practicing lawyer. In the sixties, Griffa began working as an assistant to the Italian painter Filippo Scroppo, a member of the MAC (Art Concreta) movement and a teacher at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. Work In 1968, Giorgio Griffa abandoned figurative painting in favor of a format of abstract painting that still characterizes his work to this day. Painting with acrylic on raw un-stretched canvas, burlap and linen, Griffa's works are nailed directly to the wall along their top edge. When not exhibited, the works are folded and stacked, resulting creases that create an underlying grid for his compositions. In keeping with his idea that paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lucio Del Pezzo
Lucio Del Pezzo (13 December 1933 - 12 April 2020) was an Italian artist, painter and sculptor. Biography Del Pezzo was born on December 13, 1933, in Naples. In 1960, he moved to Paris, then to Milan, where he held several solo exhibitions. In 1964, he held an exhibition, ''Labirinto del tempo libero,'' at the Triennale di Milano and the Venice Biennale. In 1967, he participated in an exhibition in the Kruger Gallery in Geneva, where he exhibited together with Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( ; ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His ..., and other Italian artist. In 1988, he participated in a group exhibited at the Palace of Arts in Moscow, together with other Italian artists. In 2001 he designed some ceramic reliefs and a bronze for two stations on the new Naples underground. Lucio De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Enzo Cucchi
Enzo Cucchi (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian painter. A native of Morro d'Alba, province of Ancona, he was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, along with his countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Sandro Chia. The movement was at its peak during the 1980s and was part of the worldwide movement of Neo-Expressionist painters. Cucchi's first major Retrospective was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1986 and his works are held in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tate London and the Art Institute of Chicago. Cucchi lives and works in Rome and Ancona. Biography Enzo Cucchi was born in 1949 in Morro d‘Alba, a farming village in the province of Ancona in central Italy. As an autodidacticism, autodidactic painter Cucchi was lauded in his early years even though he was more interested in poetry. He frequently visited poet Mino De Angelis, who was in charge of the magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gianni Cella
Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003), industrialist * Gianni Alemanno (born 1958), politician * Gianni Amelio (born 1945), film director * Gianni Baget Bozzo (1925–2009), Roman Catholic priest and political expert * Gianni Bellocchi (born 1969), scientist * Gianni Benvenuti (1926–2005), Italian artist * Gianni Brera (1919–1992), journalist * Gianni Bugno (born 1964), cyclist * Gianni Danzi (1940–2007), Roman Catholic bishop * Gianni Davito (born 1957), high jumper * Gianni De Biasi (born 1956), Italian football coach * Gianni De Fraja (born 1960), economics professor * Gianni De Michelis (1940–2019), politician * Gianni Garko (born 1935, Giovanni Garcovich), actor * Gianni Ghidini (1930–1995), cyclist * Gianni Infantino (born 1970), President of FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jessica Carroll
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll; 23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013) was a Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of black and Asian literature, and a women's and community rights activist. She is notable as the founder in 1969 of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in London. Early life She was born in Bagotstown, British Guiana (now Guyana) on 23 February (the date on which day the 18th-century Berbice slave uprising is commemorated) 1927, the only daughter and the youngest of four children of James Carroll and his wife, Hectorine ( Esbrand) Carroll. Jessica was three years old when her father died, and her mother struggled financially to raise her children, nevertheless instilling the values of independence, discipline, justice and loyalty that informed Jessica's life. Unable to finish high school on the family's meagre finances, Jessica attended evening classes in shorthand and typing. With the hope of a cleric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vittorio Valente
Vittorio is an Italian male given name which has roots from the Latin name Victor. People with the given name Vittorio include: * Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, pretender to the former Kingdom of Italy * Vittorio Adorni, professional road racing cyclist * Vittorio Alfieri, dramatist and poet * Vittorio Amandola (1952–2010), Italian actor and voice actor * Vittorio De Angelis (1962–2015), Italian voice actor * Vittorio Brambilla (1937–2001) Italian Formula One racing driver * Vittorio Caprioli, actor, director and screenwriter * Vittorio Cecchi Gori (born 1942), Italian film producer and politician * Vittorio Cini (1885–1977), Italian industrialist and politician * Vittorio Cottafavi, director and screenwriter * Vittorio Gallinari, basketball player * Vittorio Gassman (1922–2000), Italian actor and director * Vittorio Giannini, neoromantic composer of operas * Vittorio Guerrieri, Italian voice actor * Vittorio Giardino, comic artist * Vittorio Goretti, astro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mauro Staccioli
Mauro Staccioli (11 February 1937 – 1 January 2018) was an Italian sculptor. Career After studying at the Art Institute in Volterra, Staccioli started teaching and in 1968 joined the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. At the end of the 1960s, Staccioli decided to dedicate himself to sculpture. His idea is to meet people where they live which leads him to create sculptures for urban places. His sculptures are “marks”, traces of a passage; he wants to affect the people who are usually found in a place and prompt them to experience that place in a different way. His sculptures always have a strong relationship with the place where he works. Since the beginning of the 1970s, he has chosen urban environment and, with sculpture, tries to give answers to social questions. His linguistic choice is characterized by the coherence, the essential shapes and by the perfect adherence to the setting where he realize his “sculpture-intervention”. He proceeds in a very rigorous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
