Muntaka Chasant, Burning sheathed cables to recover copper at the Agbogbloshie e-waste landfill near the center of Accra, Ghana’s capital city (detail) After this long summer break I would like to resume from the central theme of this blog. That is, from that discourse already undertaken around the images and the impact they have on the constitution of our imagery and, therefore, of our experience, determining many of our points of view and the “form” of our thinking itself. […]
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic (particolare), 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin In 1916, in Zurich, Dadaism was born, a current that belongs to the group of the so-called historical avant-gardes that marked and revolutionized the artistic scene of the first thirty years of the twentieth century. Certainly Dada, as the name already testifies, with its strong playful component and dubious origin, is […]
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic (particolare), 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin Nel 1916, a Zurigo, nasce il dadaismo, corrente che appartiene al gruppo delle cosiddette avanguardie storiche che segnarono e rivoluzionario il panorama artistico dei primi trent’anni del Novecento. Certamente il Dada, come già testimonia il nome dalla forte componente ludica e dalla dubbia origine, è tra le avanguardie artistiche del Novecento […]
Philips PM5544 Monoscope Let me first explain the title. Think of our generational formation, of how our memory and our way of imagining are bound by what we have seen and stored mnemonically, indelibly marking our identity: cinema, in particular American cinema, or rather Hollywood cinema, with its frenetic sequential narration, profoundly different from European productions, there is also national cinema, but if we think of its cultural impact on a large scale, we must necessarily refer to the […]
Monoscopio Philips PM5544 Vorrei anzitutto spiegare il titolo. Si pensi alla nostra formazione generazionale, a come la nostra memoria e il nostro modo d’immaginare siano vincolati da quanto abbiamo fruito e immagazzinato segnando indelebilmente la nostra identità: il cinema, in particolare quello americano, anzi holliwoodiano, con la sua frenetica narrazione sequenziale, profondamente diverso dalle produzioni europee, vi è poi il cinema nazionale, ma, se pensiamo a un suo impatto culturale su larga scala, dobbiamo necessariamente riferirci alla cosiddetta “commedia […]
