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Enjoying Guido in Pollenzo

Entering in the small village of Pollenzo, near Asti in the Cuneese land, if you keep behind you San Vittore’s church, you’ll find the entrance gate for Guido Restaurant. Piero Alciati e Marcella Mongelli (the owners) will welcome you in a warmy, fine and extremely elegance atmosphere. Red bricks, white table cloths, Sambonet cultlery, suspension [...]

Cultural Market

We bring up a very good example for the DaringToDo methodology. Maybe through this blog we can find suggestions and good advices for the developement of the project. G.V is a 35 years old man from Milan who works in the cultural events sector. After working for a society in Turin, he acquired the right knoledge [...]

Hilarotragedia

Hilarotragedia is a curatorial project related to artistic ceramics. Superego, a ceramic laboratory in Asti, decided few months ago to open a series of ceramics created by contemporary artists chromatically and ideologically related with corporate production. Edoardo Scagliola, chatting with friends, had the idea to start with important artists on our Italian national contest. So, he [...]

What’s up?!

And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday: Artistic ceramics Tuesday: Culture and Management Wednesday: Walking on eggs. Aldo Mondino solo exhibition. Thursday:Eataly Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

Safarà

Safarà, sweet and sour citation from Dylan Dog ( it was a fabulous shop of bizar objects with the power of disappearing, putting in contact parallel dimensions), became a perfoming project executed Thursday 13th November in Via Ventura, Milan. Corrado Bonomi, the dreams’ artist, will take a stab at the Duck Game. This game in [...]

What’s up?!

And this is the schedule for next week appointments: Monday: Safarà Tuesday: Culture and Management Wednesday: Giuseppe Penone at MAMbo Thursday: Locanda I Girasoli Friday: MG Art Have a nice weekend!

Art on the Elections’ Day

The Elections’ Day is not exclusively a political fact. Even Art addresses its attention to this contemporary fundamental moment. A good examgle is the interestic collective exhibition curated by Alessandro Trabucco at Villa Carpiglio in Turin. A big crowd of young artists -it’s unuseful to cite just few of them- that will elaborate the Elections’ [...]

Excellent palaces

Who sad the best architects, those famous and awarded, are always the most suitable for keeping up important projects? Is the Sole24Ore’s reality. It costed more than two hundreds millions of euros in the centre of Milan (Via Monterosa) and distressed by a series of problems. Renzo Piano realized offices without barries, where you can [...]

Sustainable Museum at Borgo Valsugana

Borgo Valsugana opens the depth of his gorges and the majestic nature to an artistic experiment that counts already 20 years, focused on art in contact with nature. The foundamental nub is proposing art works (45 are currently part of the permanent collection) along a natural path consisting of an attempt of taking the man [...]

Little riddle!!

Look at this sequence below: 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 1113213211 …………….. Are you able to write the next line?

Dangerous TV

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Premio Cairo 2008

The Cairo Award will finally declare the 2008 best artist. Starting from painture and embracing varoius artistic techniques from scuplture to videoart, to photographic and digital art, the Cairo Award worths a mention for its attempt of promoting and sustaining the new italian up-coming artists. Thanks to a frist selection of 20 final partecipants, the jury [...]

Italian Factory Award

At the Fabbrica del vapore in Milan, it opened the 2nd of October, the final section of the Italian Factory Award for  young painture, curated by Chiara Canali. Another time, the assembly of various artists doesn’t seem the best way to realizing worthy reviews. The arrived and exposed material, even if it was already [...]

Andrei Molodkin

At the Pack Gallery, during the weekend of the 19th of September untile the middle of November, Andrei Molodkin opened his persolan exhibition. During the same weekend of Start, the important autumn art contest in Milan,  this is the only positive exposition during the event. None of the location of Start neither Via Ventura - [...]

Red&Black: two colours for contemporary art

This month the Galleria Lodi in Milan hosts a special historical and literary exhibition called: Red and Black. Inspired by Stendhal books and by his love for the city of Milan, the two well known curators Paolo Manazza and Alessandro Visca have realized an unusual combination of artists. Davide Nido, Dani Vescovi, Rosalinda Celentano, Luca Pignatelli: a [...]

What’s up?

For those who won’t have the possiblity to visit London during the weekend of the 23rd-27th October, you should know that at the same time there’s Art Verona going on. One of the most important appointment for Italian contemporary art. During this art fair all the best Italian galleries will be present for presenting their [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

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Update Teramo Warehouse

We’d talked about the Teramo Warehouse few weeks ago. This new concept gallery is willing to work hard, to organize events and realize projects. Here there are some of the latest news about it. Keep reading! On the 27th of September Matteo Fato will open his personal exhibition. A really huge work for let the public [...]

Long neck women

The “long neck women” belong to a Khmer(Myanmar) tribe that today lives in the northern area of Thailand. The explanation of their name stays in the several golden rings they start wearing at the age of 5. The legend tells that centuries ago, wicked spirits set on the womed ferocious tigers as a punishment for unknown [...]

What’s up?

Technology is making huge progresses and keep up with everything is extremely hard. The latest realization of a video camera not just eye shaped but with eye characteristics and dimensions, seems to me incredible. New frontiers for the eye surgery and ophthalmology, a better control of the cerebral activity and several uses in the security controls [...]

Menelaw Sete: underwater exhibition

The madness’ praise

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Apple spectator while Microsoft staggers

For those fanatics of computers and electronics the final challenge between the two colossal Microsoft and Apple finally has come. Microsoft after the issue of its latest Windows version – Vista- is going through a period of strong instability for the company. Meanwhile Apple is profiting by Microsoft’s difficulties so hardly that in the last [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

We didn’t have many information about Finale Ligure Festival beacuse everything is changing and evolving.So, our promise was to keep you updated and here we are!! Andrej Mussa will make a 30 minutes video for the work “Maine” by Riccardo Deni. Cosimo Terlizzi will bring on the project “Apartment Video” that will be joined by the [...]

What’s up?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: Part from the various art galleries that start to be very numerous in the Thai capital city, there’s a fantastic initiative the nation provided in phe past years known as : Thailand New Media Art Festival. This festival lasted three years, [...]

Art in Bangkok city

Bangkok. Thailand. Chaotic and extremely smoggy, the capital of this Asian state can be defined as a pulsing hart for fashion, design and art of course. Its central location in the region gives artists the possibility to use the capital city as a base for their work, especially for its connections with the international market. Therefore, [...]

Contemporaneamente (a new space for art)

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Quiberon

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Melted Art

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What’s up?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: If you liked the ideas and the creations made by Corrado Bonomi, you should check another funny character that worked with him during his life and still remains alive in Bonomi’s thoughts. Aldo Mondino. You should find [...]

Finale Ligure Festival

The city of Finale Ligure, close to Savona, in Liguria, is organizing for the month of September ( but maybe it’s going to be May 2009) a festival of visual arts and various shows. The project consists of different theatre performances, ballets, concerts that will be joined and followed by art works like video [...]

The Corrado’s conceptual ironic

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What’s up ?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: As for the evolution of psichyc and corporal development should be interesting reading the works of Georg Groddeck or The Corrections of Jonathan Franzen or even The Truman show with Jim Carrey. If Lucio [...]

Teramo Warehouse

This ex-factor adapted to be an innovative art centre in the city of Teramo, close to the Adriatic sea, will present an interesting cultural and artistic production. In the Warehouse created by Alfredo Marcozzi, artists from all parts of the world will put in the favourite situation where they’ll be able to work, live [...]

The strange instance of Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana is a great master of the Italian Spatialism art. Born in 1899, this artist is the protagonist of a typical Italian instance related to the growth of his success during the past decay. It’s been a while that the artistic production of Fontana represents an economic and financial investment with a bigger rating than [...]

What’s up?

In addition to what we told you this week we suggest you few more things: You could find particulars practices, in order to found the conscoiusness, to mix togheter a tribe, in tha Papua New Guinea To get some new information about italian’s architectural mood you should have a [...]

Extra Edition Caroline Dechamby

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Caroline Dechamby’s Billionaire Night

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Food&Drink in Liguria 2

Last week we talked you about the regional recipes and restaurants you can find in the western Liguria’s coast. Actually we didn’t suggest you anything for the remaining part of the evening. Especially if you are a teen or you like to party, there should be something more! Althought lots of people complain about this area [...]

Italian roundbounds

Food&Drink in Liguria

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Daniel’s Arts Garden

Daniel Spoerri it’s an artist of the new French (hyper)realism. Visionary, picaresque but still, realistic. A person that has been able to develop a melancholic and dreamer vein, an attempt to escape, into the post-naturalistic realism. In his tableaux he takes us into an effective and daily reality, leaving on the street few elements from another [...]

Carnival in Spain

Ituren and Zubieta, two small city in the Basque Navarre, few kilometres one from each others. In this part of Spain, tha last Mondays and Tuesdays of January, the inhabitants of the two villages visit eachothers wearing big cowbells (polunpak) or being crowned by coloured bow and cock feathers (ttuntturroak), in order not to be recognized [...]

What’s up?

Next week we will talk about: Monday: a very special Carnival.. Wednesday: The Garden of Daniel Spoerri Thursday: a small guide of the japanise restaurants in Milan Friday: Caroline Dechamby in Santa Margherita Ligure Saturday: What’s up? In addiction [...]

Navigli by night

A nice evening tour in the area of Navigli, right in the center of Milan’s city. What we’re presenting you it’s a small itinerary starting with an aperitif and finishing with a long drink, stopping for a special dinner. For the aperitif one of the best places in the area can be El Brellin, [...]

Discovering Turin

Per coloro che amano del nostro paese non solo le meraviglie gastronomiche ma anche le sue origini storiche, non potevamo mancare con un appuntamento nella prima capitale d’Italia: Torino. Attraversata dal verdognolo Po’, con i suoi palazzi e la Mole che svetta imponente e controlla i suoi cittadini, una pianta a scacchiera che definisce tuttora il [...]

Educating through art

In uno dei quartieri più remoti della città di Milano ma allo stesso tempo più vivo e pulsante, trae alimentazione la linfa giovane e tenace di un nuovo progetto didattico e artistico. A partire dalle scuole medie generalmente si insegna Storia dell’Arte, uno studio teorico, spesso sterile. Perché, allora, non partire dall’arte stessa per arrivare a [...]

Balloons in the sky

Ogni due anni nella cittadina di Chambley (Francia) migliaia di palloni colorati si alzano nel cielo. Si tratta del raduno mondiale delle mongolfiere in cui equipaggi provenienti da 67 paesi del mondo spiccano il volo. Era il 1783 quando venne effettuato il primo viaggio a bordo di un pallone aerostatico. L’invenzione risale ai fratelli Montgolfier [...]

What’s up ?

What follows is a small preview of what we’re going to post next week in order to satisfy your curiosity, stimulating your future readings. However, you have to remind the rules: everything is changing, everything is moving ‘cause Daring is this: multimedia and communication. Monday: Curiosity will talk about “Chambley and its [...]

At Borgia del Casale

At Borgia del Casale in Ortigia è un luogo fantastico. La piazza limitrofa si apre, tra le sinuosità dei palazzi, saluta timida il Duomo, entra molle nelle vie circostanti. Spira, con le sue esalazioni rococò nelle stanze di Palazzo Borgia. E’ la Sicilia secca degli agrumi, dalla pelle ruvida e turgida. photo credit: Ai@ce Questo [...]