Wonderful fragment:
About the film at http://scalisto.blogspot.com
30 mar 2011
29 mar 2011
24 mar 2011
23 mar 2011
Un país - poema de Zbigniew Herbert
En la misma esquina de este viejo mapa hay un país que añoro.
Es la patria de las manzanas, las colinas, los ríos perezosos,
del vino agrio y el amor.
Por desgracia una gran araña tejió sobre él su tela
y con su viscosa saliva cerró las puertas del sueño.
Y es siempre así: el ángel con la espada de fuego, la araña y la conciencia.
Zbigniew Herbert (1957)
(De "Informe sobre la ciudad sitiada", Trad. Xaverio Ballester Madrid, Ediciones Hiperión, 2º ed. 2008)
Cloud Walk - araña de luz hecha con papel por Yu Jordy Fu
Es la patria de las manzanas, las colinas, los ríos perezosos,
del vino agrio y el amor.
Por desgracia una gran araña tejió sobre él su tela
y con su viscosa saliva cerró las puertas del sueño.
Y es siempre así: el ángel con la espada de fuego, la araña y la conciencia.
Zbigniew Herbert (1957)
(De "Informe sobre la ciudad sitiada", Trad. Xaverio Ballester Madrid, Ediciones Hiperión, 2º ed. 2008)
Cloud Walk - araña de luz hecha con papel por Yu Jordy Fu22 mar 2011
Javier Rodríguez - collages
"Portrait of a young man" Collage on paper. 2007. 50cm x 40cm
"The great confinement" Collage on paper. 2007. 50cm x 40cm
"Creation of man" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 25cm
"Splendid Torment" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 24cm
"Blind Love of Self" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 28cm
"On Rupture of the Heart from Mental Emotion"Collage on board. 2007. 50cm x 38cm
"Malinconia" Collage on paper. 2006. 34cm x 22cm
"Unknowable, Unmentionable, Non-beings" 2Collage on paper. 2007. 34cm x 25cm (each)
"Javier Rodriguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1975 and studied at the Federico Brandt Art School, Caracas. He has lived in New York and Tel Aviv, and currently alternates between London and Berlin.
He has exhibited internationally at galleries and fairs including Galeria Fernando Zubillaga, Galeria Minotauro, Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Caracas, Art Miami, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, The Mayfair Arts Club, 3 Fournier Street and 20 Hoxton Square, London.
He recently took 1st place in the City of Caracas Municipal Art Prize and was commissioned by Kings College, London, to create ‘Malinconia’, a one-off piece exploring the subject of depression.
He also has collaborated with Los Flamencos no Comen, an international Art review based in Berlin."
Javier Rodríguez at the Web
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Capricho-coincidencia
Mientras otro Javier Rodríguez, pero Marcos de segundo apellido, entrevistó a Wislawa Szymborska en 2009 para El País. Leer en:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Pequenos/detalles/Szymborska
21 mar 2011
20 mar 2011
Cançó de l'alba - BEDROOM
Cançó de l'alba - BEDROOM from Compañía Volcánica on Vimeo.
Directed by Ramón Ayala, assistant director Joana Colomar.
Cançó de l'alba is included in El fum blanc Bedroom album.
BEDROOM en la Web
Magritte en la Web
18 mar 2011
Oksana Yushko - Documentary Photos
Maria's Children
The number of orphans in Russia is currently approaching one million. Lacking life experience in a normal family, and faced with modern demands of education and psychological stability, the majority of these children are unable to fully integrate themselves into society. Their own children end up in baby houses, and the cycle continues. The NGO Maria's children is trying to change this situation.
In addition to serving as an arts studio, Maria's children is the basis for a number of special programs, including a social adaptation program for orphanage-school graduates, the goal of which is to assist them in their integration into society. So orphans come through the studio doors not only for classes of various types, but also to learn sympathy, responsibility, and other necessary qualities of life. They learn how to help somebody else who maybe is in an even worse state than they are. In the course of just one year, children volunteer at a baby house, a number of hospitals in Moscow, such as the Children's Division of the Oncological Centre, nursing homes.
The most important thing Maria's children has here is an atmosphere of creativity, friendship, and mutual trust between children and adults, which will help every person, big or small, to find their place in life.
Oksana Yushko in the Web
15 mar 2011
Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1929, Man Ray)
Les Mystères du Château de Dé (English: The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice) is a 1929 film directed by Man Ray. It depicts a pair of travellers setting off from Paris and travelling to the Villa Noailles in Hyères. At 27 minutes the film was the longest that Man Ray directed during his career.
Man Ray at the Web
Sinopsis:
To the Viscountess of Noailles. I dedicate these pictures which can never reveal the extent of her kindness and charm. How two travellers arrived in St. Bernard, what they saw in the ruins of an old castle on top of which a modern-time castle stands.
The travellers: MAN RAY, J.-A. Boiffard.
The film opens from a night scene to two masked individuals at a cafe. They decide their actions on the role of dice.
A throw of dice will never abolish chance.
The hands are that of mannequins, their faces devoid of detail. Before the throw, their destination appears on a hillside in the form of both modern and ancient castles.
Are we going?
We're not going
We're going!
And their journey begins. Departing from their cafe, they travel through the French countryside arriving a the town of Hyères and their destination to find the modern castle empty. Elements of the interior explore various spatial relationships and textures.
The film shows sculptures by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, as well as exploring the unique Cubist garden at Villa Noailles. After a while, we are introduced to four intruders who are in turn resigning their fate to that of the dice. Upon their throw, they depart for the indoor swimming pool at the villa and entertain the viewer with various diving and gymnastic movements, including a woman juggling underwater and exercising with medicine balls. Actors explore the villas confines, until they eventually retire, fading from the screen.
More moving shots of the villas external until two more travellers arrive at the location, again playing for chance within the garden. They proceed to stay overnight, bringing the film to an abrupt end.
Source of text: http://en.wikipedia.org
14 mar 2011
9 mar 2011
XIX Century Japanese Medical Prints
Women´s Health
"A number of the prints in the collection deal with women's health, including some vivid depictions of pregnancy. At the beginning of the Meiji era, the bunmei kaika, or "civilization and enlightenment" movement, introduced a more scientific outlook in many areas of Japanese life, including attitudes toward pregnancy and childbirth. Anatomical drawings from the West, available widely for the first time, provided models for the representation of such themes as the stages of fetal gestation."
(Text taken from: http://asian.library.ucsf.edu/women.html)
"A number of the prints in the collection deal with women's health, including some vivid depictions of pregnancy. At the beginning of the Meiji era, the bunmei kaika, or "civilization and enlightenment" movement, introduced a more scientific outlook in many areas of Japanese life, including attitudes toward pregnancy and childbirth. Anatomical drawings from the West, available widely for the first time, provided models for the representation of such themes as the stages of fetal gestation."
(Text taken from: http://asian.library.ucsf.edu/women.html)
Fujin-yō-yaku tsukimi-gan tsuki zare "Moon viewing"Monthly cleansing pill for females
A drug advertisement - Utagawa, Toyotsugu, Artist(n/d)
Kainin no kokoroe Information on pregnancy (1880 )Hamano, Teisuke, Artist
Mimochi on’na natsu no tawamure – Gotō juttai no zuPregnant women playing in summer heat -
5 heads with 10 bodies (1881 )
Utagawa, Kunitoshi, 1847-1899, Artist
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5 heads with 10 bodies (1881 )
Utagawa, Kunitoshi, 1847-1899, Artist
Click here to see more prints
8 mar 2011
5 mar 2011
fotografías de Charles Negre
Dioramas, Models, Deauville, and ABC:
The Hypothesis of a Continent:"The Hypothesis of a Continent is a corpus of pictures that were a part of three different projects over a period of two years. They are similar in that they express a certain idea of contemporary still-life. The Models series is my diploma work for the ECAL and the series Dioramas and Abc were also made during my studies. Deauville is part of a recent commission. The idea of Terra Incognita and scientific exploration is at the heart of these projects.It is a constant search consisting in attempting to give depth and scale to landscape-objects made exclusively in studio. How by artificial reproduction might one get closer to nature's perfection? Every photograph begins as an object, ahand-crafted construction before the photographic production. It is important to notice the stages in which the object takes shape and acquires all of its value through the final photograph. The artificial reproduction allows one to express an idea in its exactness. Whether inspired by real things or not, these pictures are hypotheses of a certain reality.Landscapes (their représentations) have always been mere interpretations of real space, and thus situated somewhere between illusion and myth. These images are a personal, finite cosmos. A territory I have delimited. What is important is to create the seeming of an existing physical space. Hence perception can sway between the impression of reality, the illusion and its interpretation.My work aims to blur the boundaries between space and time through photographic medium."
(Fuente del texto: Web de Charles Negre)
Charles Negre en la Web
3 mar 2011
2 mar 2011
Everything Everything - Schoolin'
Everything Everything - Schoolin from Nicos Livesey on Vimeo.
Designed/Animated/Directed - Nicos Livesey
Everything Everything en la Web
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