Brochure of the exhibition “Between Rodari and Munari” “Face and stripes” by Beatrice Brandini It was a long time since I wanted to dedicate a post to Bruno Munari, and, always for the same time, one to Gianni Rodari, a beautiful exhibition in Rome gives me the opportunity to talk about they transversely, combining these […]
Helena Christensen, Petra Lindbland and Kristen McMenamy photographed by Peter Lindbergh “Model on set” by Beatrice Brandini There are artists who will survive the centuries, whose work will continue to enchant entire generations, whose timbre will always be immediately recognizable. The great photographer Peter Lindbergh is one of them.
“La gattina” by Beatrice Brandini Hello Kitty piggy bank The Japanese company Sanrio certainly did not imagine that, that character born in 1974 from the pencil of the designer Yuko Shimizu, would become a real pop icon, a symbol adored in every part of the globe, indistinctly protagonist of a pen as of a wedding […]
“Landscape” by Fernando Farulli “Blonde atomic” by Beatrice Brandini I have always been fascinated by this great artist, it was a true love at first sight from the first time I saw his works. However, he is a talent that has not had, at least not always, the legitimate and deserved visibility, with this post […]
“Young Africa” by Beatrice Brandini Photo by Peter Beard From today we will be orphans of an artist who has never spared himself, to take a photo, to defend elephants and nature, to tell his Africa.
Giovanni’s virus-eating monster “Play and study” by Beatrice Brandini The “PROITUDINE” is a word invented by my son, it does not exist in the vocabulary of the Italian language, but in this period, of viral catastrophe, I think it is a real cure-all, the most suitable and the most beautiful word to be able to […]
Work by Hilma af Klint “Hilma” by Beatrice Brandini Hilma af Klint was a great artist, unfortunately little known until some time ago. Her was a courageous and honest choice, fearing that the world would not be ready (perhaps to a female artist ?!), in her will she decided that her abstract works would be […]
“Fior di Loto” by Beatrice Brandini Japanese kimono (1860 – 1880), on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London In 1872, the writer Philippe Burty wrote the essay: “Japanisme. La Renaissance Literaire et Artistique” ; since then, Japonism (an expression coined by Burty himself) has never experienced a crisis, recurring, cyclically, in art, […]
