mercoledì 3 dicembre 2008

Exhibition! AS199/1and2


John Cabot University Student Art Show at Largo dei Fiorentini
Students of Painting, Drawing, Photography, and Fresco Painting will be displaying their work at the traditional end-of-semester Art Show.
The Opening Reception will be on Thursday, December 4th 2008 from 5 to 7 pm.
Please join us!
JCU Art Studio at Largo dei Fiorentini, Roma


I'll wait you there to sign the pictures!

domenica 30 novembre 2008

Please, now search your pictures on the negatives and send me the numbers...

AS199/2/vittoriano/fall08_010.jpg

AS199/2/vittoriano/35bn/fall08_004.jpg

AS199/1/vittoriano/35mm/fall08_009.jpg

AS199/1/vittoriano/35bn/fall08_007.jpg

AS199/orto/6x6bn/fall08_013.jpg

AS199/2/orto/35bn/fall/08_002.jpg

AS199/2/orto/6x6colore/fall/08/012.jpg

AS199/1/orto35bn/fall/08_006.jpg

AS199/1/orto/6x6color/fall/08_011.jpg

AS199/1/orto/6x6 bn/fall/08_015.jpg

AS199/2/Sciarra/35mm/fall/08_005.jpg

AS199/2/Sciarra/6x6/fall/08_016.jpg

AS199/1/sciarra/6x6bn/fall/08_014.jpg

AS199/2/gianicolo/fall/08_008.jpg

AS199/1/2/first/fall08_001.jpg

AS199/1/2/first/fall/08_003.jpg

Please, now search your pictures on the negatives and send me the numbers...

domenica 23 novembre 2008

Are you interested to go to the theatre?




Porcile, written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
directed by Massimo Castri

Teatro Argentina - Roma
I took the pictures...
If you are interested ask me for tickets /I've some free tickets)

venerdì 21 novembre 2008

Ani




"...first picture I took on my way home, the ministero dell'istruzione is next to my street so i pass that building everyday...on that day of big manifestations of studnets, the front entrance of the building was full of young protestors spread along the stairs, and listening to each other as several students were adressing the group, giving the long speeches. their sound was not heard clearly as it is busy and noisy street (viale trastevere). I loved the tiny car parked in the middle of the group, it created cosy and very " italian" atmosphere around that boring building.

the second picture was taken near largo Argentina. I was passing with my camera through the crowd of students arrenged in groups and orginized in lines. These guys on the picture saw that I was with my camera and indirectly, by staring at my camera and smiling, made me approach them and offer a photo. they even asked me to send it in mesagero and turned back, rejoining the protest.

venerdì 14 novembre 2008

Have a look...we are talking about a missing negative!!!!


this picture is only to attract your attention
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:16 AM,
Dear Daniela, I think that a student took your negative with his negatives. Can you describe what was there. I try to insert in the blog the request. I'm really sorry, but during the print session there is always a lot of disorder...
Have a good day
S.

Dear Professor,
Most of the pictures are from the orto botanico and the last are pictures you took with my camera. I don't remember if there are any other types of pictures.
Daniela Piccetti

mercoledì 12 novembre 2008

AS/199/1and2_search on the web pictures and informations


I really would like you would search some pictures taken by:
walker evans
robert frank
diane arbus
dorothea lange
henry cartier bresson
robert capa
garry winogrand
andré kertész

Please! AS 199/2 lesson 11/13/2008

Please, for the next lesson read the text "The ongoing moment" by Geoff Dyer
from page 1 to page 13.
Thank you!

Please! AS 199/2 lesson 11/13/2008

This is the work I've exposed in Turin

click on this image to see a selection of "fogli dei giorni"



The galleries will be active in 24hours

AS199/2/Museo del Risorgimento


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AS199/1/Museo del Risorgimento BW


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AS199/2/second portrait session


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AS199/1/second portrait session


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venerdì 31 ottobre 2008

AS199/1and"/Museo del Risorgimento. A good work!




Click on the image to see the gallery...but not before sunday!

giovedì 30 ottobre 2008

"Fogli dei giorni" 150 pieces/2002-2008

See you on Thuersday Nov the 6th. I'm going to Turin.


If someone of AS199/1 wants to make up the lesson of Nov the 3th, can reach the AS1998/2 gclass on thuersday nov the 6th in Via del Mattonato.
We are developing and printing...


ARTIFACTS 4 - 30 novembre 2008
La Galerie - Mirafiori Motor Village
Piazza Cattaneo 9, Torino
Dal 4 al 30 novembre 2008 il Mirafiori Motor Village ospita la mostra Artifacts, curata da Daniela Trunfio ed inserita nel calendario delle manifestazioni di Contemporary. L’esposizione fa parte del Progetto di Ricerca AlbumdiFamiglia, sostenuto dalla Fondazione CRT e coordinato da Mario Renosio per l’ISRAT e Luisella d’Alessandro, direttrice della Galerie, e prende in considerazione gli sviluppi e le evoluzioni che l’oggetto “Album di Famiglia” ha subito nella più recente contemporaneità artistica.
Fin dal suo nascere, l’album era un work in progress per fermare la memoria e destinarla alla stretta cerchia dei parenti/eredi; oggi viene invece ricostruito a posteriori, secondo una lettura operata nell’assemblaggio dei reperti, e il prodotto artistico che ne deriva diventa patrimonio di tutti coloro che fruiscono l’opera.
L’album così “ricostruito” viene vissuto, a seconda degli artisti, come mezzo per ripercorrere la propria storia individuale; o per evidenziare il paradigma di lettura di una generazione, di uno spaccato sociale, e a volte anche razziale; o, infine, per sviscerare problematiche riconducibili agli archetipi della famiglia: la complessità dei rapporti e delle relazioni, il sottaciuto o meglio quanto di complicato, e inconscio gioca nella banalità di certi riti e dinamiche familiari.
L’oggetto album muta nei suoi contenuti, nella sua fruizione: da privato si fa collettivo; muta nelle sue rappresentazioni spaziando dalla performance, al cinema, video, scultura, web, pittura e ovviamente fotografia.
Il risultato sono installazioni, dipinti, fotografie e performance che interpretano l’album di famiglia attraverso reperti, ricordi o anche solo la memoria dei racconti.
L’azione è mirata alcune volte a preservare e ricostruire le testimonianze, altre ad interpretare e perfino a inventare la storia del passato, ma la finalità resta la medesima: definire un’identità nella quale riconoscersi. In un periodo in cui l’identità è un fragile vessillo che aiuta a distinguersi e ritrovarsi, il recupero delle proprie radici è il primo passo verso la definizione di una specificità che può essere individuale e collettiva come sociale e territoriale. Studiare il passato per capire il presente: questo è dunque l’intento degli artisti in mostra.

Gli artisti in mostra
Serafino Amato, Delphine Balley, Maggie Cardelús, Giuliano Cocco, Cristiano De Gaetano, Uwe Dressler, Giuliano Galletta, Guerrieri/Dallavalle, Huang Yan, Francesco Lauretta, Salvatore Licitra, Glenn Ligon, Ugo Locatelli, Fulvio Magurno, Sally Mann, Alina Marazzi, Kristine McCarroll, Malekeh Nayiny, Sylvie Romieu, Ferdinando Scianna, Gabriele Trabia.

Serafino Amato, Italia - installazione
I suoi Fogli dei giorni. Istogrammi di vita quotidiana, sono una biblioteca/libreria (e come tale si presenta) da cui sfilare immagini: luoghi, oggetti o persone che evocano parole e segni.
“Questo lavoro è cominciato in realtà assai prima che iniziassi a fotografare con la piccola macchina tascabile comprata per l’occasione. Ho ripreso “cose così”: voglio dire, cose che non necessariamente avessero per me valore particolare da un punto di vista visivo”.

ARTIFACTS
4 - 30 novembre 2008
La Galerie - Mirafiori Motor Village
Piazza Cattaneo 9, Torino
Dal lunedi al sabato: 9.00-19.30 orario continuato
Domenica 9.00-12.30 / 15.00-19.30
Ingresso libero tel. 011.0042000
8 novembre: Apertura straordinaria serale in occasione dell’appuntamento di “Saturday Art Fever”.

martedì 28 ottobre 2008

AS199/1 "Museo del Risorgimento"

AS199/1
If you missed the appointment at the "Museo del risorgimento" oct the 27th,
you can reach us AS199/2 Thuersday the 30th at 10:30
see instructions below.

giovedì 23 ottobre 2008

AS199/1and2 Museo del Risorgimento, Piazza Venezia



On monday October 27th AS199/1
and on thuersday 30th AS199/2
we are going to visit the: "Museo del Risorgimento" in Piazza Venezia. The entrance is free. The Museum is rather interesting, but the most important thing is that the light is really low.
We will have a good opportunity to solve some technical problems...
Our appointment is at 10:30 in front of the Altare della Patria, Vittoriano - The big white building in Piazza Venezia. I'm waiting there untill 10:45, then, if someone delay can reach us in the Museum. We will work with two cameras of mine, but, please, bring your camera too.
Here some information about the museum. Please read it.

The Central Museum of the Risorgimento at the Vittoriano

In 1878, at the death of Victor Emmanuel II, who had assumed the title of King of Italy in 1861 with the creation of the Italian State, the parliament decided to build, in Rome, a monument dedicated to the first king of unified Italy, thus called Vittoriano (from “Victor”).
This monument – which was inaugurated in 1911 would have housed the Central Museum of the Risorgimento, destined to gather the testimonies of the political, economical and social transformation of Italy during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
These testimonies consist of papers (letters, journals, and work manuscripts), paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, prints, arms, which recall the events and chief protagonists of this important period of the history the Country, thus forming a vast memorial archive of the Risorgimento.
The walls of the Museum, within the Vittoriano’s complex, carry engraved in the marble, extracts of significant texts by the major witnesses of the history of Italy, so rendering the Victor Emmanuel Monument itself an integral part of the Museum.
The expositive route currently proposed follows the fundamental stages in the history of Italy, from the reforms of the various peninsular States occurred during the second half of the 18th century to the end of the First World War, through testimonies of different kinds, which lay themselves open to various interpretations.
All along the walls of the staircase leading to the museum there are numerous engravings that illustrate the events which prepared the Risorgimento, from the diffusion of the ideals of the French Revolution to the evoking of the exploits of Napoleon: in general, these are symbolic depictions which sometimes take up themes from the classical antiquity and turn them into allegories of modern history.
The first section of the Museum is dedicated to the chief protagonists of the Risorgimento. Big caskets expose relics, paintings and documents concerning Garibaldi, Mazzini and Cavour, while parallel sections illustrate other figures associated with the history of the 19th century.
The gallery is divided into single sections pivoting on the major stages of the Risorgimento struggles: from the Restoration which followed the fall of Napoleon, to 1848; from the Roman Republic set up in 1849 to the exploits of the Thousand (1860), to the rejoining of Rome to Italy (1870).
At the same time, along the gallery, a parallel and complementary route aims at illustrating particular historical “themes”: the Civic Guard, the brigandage, the political satire, the historical depiction techniques during the 19th century (from drawings to photography), the relics, the Italian Flag, the coins and the medals.
The whole route is scanned by a selection of the arms that belonged to the Risorgimento “heroes”.
The final section of the Museum is entirely dedicated to the First World War. In the middle of the section there is the gun carriage used in 1921 for transporting the remains of the Unknown Warrior, while the walls bear large paintings illustrating the exploits of the Gold Medals and a series of drawings and paintings realised by painter-soldiers Anselmo Bucci, Aldo Carpi and Italico Brass, together with other relics from the First World War.
As ideal conclusion of this route appropriate video-installations realised by the Istituto Luce offer a reworking of images taken from the film Gloria, made in 1934 with original materials shot by the cine-operator party of the Italian Army, suitably linked to photos, paintings and relics of the Museum in such a way as to evoke the exploits of the Italian Army during the war, in the most complete and correct way possible.

Thank you. I'll wait you there!
Serafino Amato

martedì 21 ottobre 2008

I suggest you to go. Oct. 22, 18:30

The Department of Art History and Studio Art is hosting a lecture night on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 18:30 in classroom 1.1 of the Tiber Campus

Laurie Kalb (Museum Studies) ,"The Capitoline Hill and the First Modern Museum in Rome."

Augusto Pieroni (Modern/Contemporary art), "The Evolution of Artistic Languages in the Avant-Gardes"

Crispin Corrado
(Ancient art), "Wishes for Eternity: Deity Assimilation Statues of Boys in the Roman Imperial Period".

Refreshments will be served after the lectures.

giovedì 16 ottobre 2008

AS199/2 Orto botanico 6x6 cm


Click on the image to see the gallery (but wait untill saturday...My assistant in Venice...with her girl friend)

martedì 14 ottobre 2008

AS199/1 Orto botanico 6x6 cm


Click on the image to see the gallery (from Thuersday)

AS199/1 Orto botanico 35 mm


Click on the image to see the gallery (from Thuersday)

lunedì 13 ottobre 2008

For your prints...

You can buy photographic paper to:

Fotoforniture Sabatini
Via Germanico,166/168 a - 00192 Roma
tel. +39-063207278 r.a.- fax +39-063212304
http://www.sabatini.ws/chisiamo/chisiamo.htm

or to
E. De Bernardis Fotoforniture Srl
Piazza Della Cancelleria,63
00186 Roma
http://www.prontoimprese.it/lazio/roma/roma/fotografia-apparecchi-e-materiali-produzione-e-commercio|577446.html

you can share (2 or 3 of you) the same paper if you want, to save money.
I suggest you to buy an envelope of 24x30.5 cm (10 sheets)
and an evelope of 18x24 cm (25 sheets)
Multigrade RC Ilford or Tetenal

Thank you, I'm receiving yours mid term tests
For AS199/2 remind to bring your camera on Thersday at the orto botanico.