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An event celebrating the young Italian star in the world of design, capable of emblematic, sensational and impressive gestures.
The exhibition, curated by Beppe Finessi, is a courageous tribute to an author at the height of his creativity and vitality, between industrial, interior and set design.
A brand new interpretation of the space, in which the relation with the existing structure has been conceived in a dialectical and complex way, between affinity and contrast.
At the entrance the exhibition set up totally denies the location, limits contracts and dissolves it, creating some kind of silent preamble in fragments, where - in a gathered and closed ambient, the smallest and more precious objects of Novembre's work are displayed.
Then you immediately find yourself under the skylight, completely plunged in the space of the Rotonda.
This second moment, blasting, fluent and impressive as in a movie, is dominated by the presence of a long ribbon that physically follows back the flight paths of the swallows, that the subtititle of the exhibition evokes - from a small sheet of paper that a street poet gave to Novembre some years ago - and takes the visitor along the same free paths of project of the author.
The interpretation of the work of this young author becomes the chance for a true original staging.
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Within the framework of its "live" event, Alcantara LAB showcases the results of its international Extraordinary, Every Day Movie Contest, addressed to all those who live their daily life through personal experiences based on the same values that make Alcantara unique: sensoriality, aesthetics, functionality and exclusivity.
And for all those who practice the art of making every day live truly extraordinary.
Applicants to the contest had to conceive and realize a video product on the theme "Extraordinary every day".
Each video could last a maximum of 3 minutes and could be realized using any video language (graphics, animation, filming etc).
One year after the 2007 Design Contest, Alcantara LAB has thus bravely decided to open itself again towards new communication languages, hence confirming its willingness to create a total dialogue with the creative universe and with the ever more visited virtual world.
The movie contest web site was visited by more than 20.000 people from 38 different countries.
The best projects will be shown during Milan Design Week, and the winners will be awarded at the Extraordinary, Every Day Movie Contest ceremony on April 17th at 6 p.m. in Milan, 54, via Tortona, That's Design, Hall1, Former Ansaldo.
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Scott Livesey Galleries presents "This Perfect Day", the latest series of work from Todd Hunter.
Painted at his studio in Pittwater on the NSW coast, the series is Hunter's response to the natural environment that surrounds him and the climactic extremes that occur there.
His luscious and atmospheric paintings involve the viewer in an experience of nature.
Set on the water and surrounded by untamed bushland, Hunter's environs see the extremes of the current climactic conditions and it is these dramatic shifts in weather and light that are in evidence in these paintings.
As Hunter says, the "interaction of flesh, landscape and light" have informed this series.
Whilst flesh and landscape provide a "subject" within the abstract, it is music that provides the backdrop.
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Todd Hunter: This Perfect Day
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Takashi Murakami's monumental, platinum-clad Oval Buddha, 2007, will be exhibited in the 590 Sculpture Garden in Manhattan.
This exhibition is in conjunction with the presentation of a major retrospective of his work, Murakami, at the Brooklyn Museum from April 5 through July 13, 2008.
Because of its enormous scale, it is not possible for the 6,613 pound, 18 1/2 foot-tall sculpture to be included in the Brooklyn exhibition, but arrangements were made for the 590 Sculpture Garden presentation to coincide with this largest survey to date of the work of the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist.
The towering work depicts a Janus-faced Oval, one of the artist's signature characters, seated in a meditative lotus position.
Combining traditional Japanese techniques and imagery with several of Murakami's motifs, Oval Buddha reflects the artist's evolving body, mind, and spirit and his continuing exploration of his cultural, national, religious, and artistic reality.
First conceived in 1999 when Murakami was asked to create an iconic figure for a line of Issey Miyake t-shirts, the Oval character was subsequently utilized in a variety of different works.
Like many of the artist's other creatures, it has metamorphosed in many applications, culminating in Oval Buddha, which combines the artist's distinct iconography with traditional Buddhist motifs.
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The first major retrospective of Lawrence Weiner's work organized in the United States, Lawrence Weiner: as Far as the Eye Can See opens at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on April 13, 2008, and remains on view through July 14, 2008.
A key figure associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in the 1960s, Weiner remains one of the most remarkably dynamic and relevant artists working today.
Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this landmark exhibition is co-curated by MOCA Senior Curator Ann Goldstein and Whitney Museum Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs Donna De Salvo.
Following its initial presentation at the Whitney Museum and subsequent presentation at MOCA, the exhibition will travel to K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany, where it will be on view from September 27, 2008 to January 4, 2009.
Lawrence Weiner: as Far as the Eye Can See is a comprehensive examination of Weiner's remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his career of more than 40 years.
The exhibition represents the full range of Weiner's art, from the early Propeller and Removal paintings of the 1960s, to the artist's "specific and general" works using language, which has characterized his art since 1968.
Also included are works on paper, films, videos, books, posters, multiples, and audio works.
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