August 2011
13 posts
UNDERCOVER
BY GIANPAOLO ARENA
The editorial Undercover opens to contaminations between music, photography and contemporary art in its broadest sense. Photography as a tool for a complex communication which takes in the womb multiple metaphorical meanings. The interdisciplinary nature of these discussions intimates depth, suggests paths, reveals links, and indicates relations between languages that...
“Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust” (With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly) is the splendid title of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós’ fifth studio album, produced by Flood and recorded in New York, London and Havana. This album merges the stylistic features that make this band unique, in light of a new awareness and maturity. Symphonic and choral outbursts; acoustic glimpses embellished...
The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities is a compilation by Sonic Youth containing 11 tracks from the period 1994 to 2003, the band’s transition years to a more accessible and less sharp sound. The album is also the farewell to Geffen, but it is neither a greatest hits collection nor a live album or remixes. In fact, there were bonus tracks released for the Japanese market that belonged to...
Rick Moody is one of the most known and appreciated contemporary American writers, author of The Ice Storm (1994) and Purple America (1996). In the first of his two albums released under the band Wingdale Community Singers, he is the author of beautiful lyrics, also playing and interpreting the songs of the album. With him are Hanna Marcus on piano and vocals and David Grubbs on guitar, piano...
«Alex Chilton, described by some as the fragile incarnation of the beautiful loser, left us over a year ago at the age of 59 after a heart attack, just days after the death of Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse. In 1967, at the age of seventeen as the lead singer of Box Tops, Chilton reached the top of the U.S. singles chart with the single The Letter. His full artistic maturity as a singer,...
«The daring sonic adventures of John Zorn, accompanied by excellent musicians like Frisell, Horvitz, Frith, Baron, Eye and his chameleonic musical transformism, create the conditions for one of the most amazing frescoes of contemporary music: the Naked City. In the background, the New York atmosphere, the energy, the speed, the neurosis. The noir, B-movies, Carl Stalling, the free jazz of...
This is UNDERCOVER, our new special issue dedicated to photographers and musical covers. Another way to investigate, through photography, cultural landscapes. Enjoy it!
«The echo of the wall of sound, full of crashing distortions and feedbacks from the earlier beautiful You are Living All Over Me (SST 1987) and Bug (SST 1988), still vibrates in the ears when Dinosaur Jr, together with Hüsker...
July 2011
2 posts
Lucian Freud dies at 88 →
Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.
January 2011
18 posts
WatchAlec Soth “Sleeping by the Mississipi”
Alec Soth "Sleeping by the Mississippi" →
Nadav Kander "Yangtze, The Long River" →
LANDSCAPE Stories →
Snow Blind 02/2010
Landscape Stories number 02, Snow Blind, has as a theme the void. A path walk from zero to the infinite along with different interpretations and shades. A short-lived narration that starting from the edges lingers in the dark searching for evanescent and unstable horizons. The void as expectation, suspension, amnesia. Absence, silence, renunciation. An absolute concept, feeble...
December 2010
9 posts
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!
NATURAE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP EXHIBITION →
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones”.
Robert Adams “Beauty in Photography”. 1996
L’esigenza etica di misurare il proprio rapporto con il mondo esterno e nello stesso tempo di misurare se stessi, è uno dei parametri di avvicinamento della fotografia contemporanea alla comprensione del...
NATURAE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP EXHIBITION
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones”.
Robert Adams “Beauty in Photography”. 1996
The moral requirement need to value one’s own relation with the outside world and at the same time to value ourselves, is one of the approach parameters of the...
November 2010
5 posts
October 2010
16 posts
Ezio D'Agostino on Landscape Stories 01 "The Lure... →
Ispirati alle rappresentazioni dei fregi della Grecia classica e di alcune opere di epoca romana, lo spazio e il vuoto riconquistano il loro valore scenico e metaforico.
Lo sfondo neutro è quasi privo di cambiamenti, se non quelli dettati dall’incessante movimento dell’acqua e dagli individui che riempiono il paesaggio, ritmando la scena, mentre una luce immutabile rischiara il vuoto che li...
