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CRANACH
Royal Academy of Arts
London
March 8 to June 8

Lucas Cranach il Vecchio, insieme a Dürer, è stato una delle maggiori personalità del Rinascimento Tedesco. E io lo trovo assolutamente affascinante.

Saranno i suoi nudi femminili, dai corpi allungati, di una grazia scomoda, poco levigata, tedesca ma al contempo intrigante, come Venus con occhi quasi a mandorla e lo sguardo accattivante. Pericoloso potere seduttore della donna.

I contatti tra i due maestri tedeschi sono provati e i rimandi a Dürer sono evidenti sia nei lavori incisori di Cranach che nei dipinti. L’esempio più noto è la Melancholia a cui both have tried to give a face. Cranach gave this strange disturbance in the features of being a young woman entered and broke it in the emerging Protestant iconography, making it an independent work of the previous Dürer. The measure of the distance between the two works is given by the group of witches that break and going crazy on the left side of the painting irreparably breaking the pensive stillness of space and time. The inactivity dictated by the state was unacceptable for the melancholic soul of Germany Saxon Protestant who hovered in the first century and Cranach, a personal friend of Luther and follower of the new faith, expressed unequivocally the conviction.

Cranach fascinates me the loyalty shown to the Elector of Saxony, his patron, then in exile and at the same time the independence of his unconventional profession. His personal connection to Luther, also sealed any formal act, the painter was the best man and godfather of the German reformer of his first child-did not prevent him from accepting commissions from major antagonist of Luther, Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the most important man of the Church of the Holy Roman Empire, for which he made a series of portraits.

Lucas Cranach's work remains fortemente legata allo spirito della Riforma. Lavorando attivamente alla diffusione dei suoi temi e soggetti, diede una forte spinta alla creazione di una vera e propria iconografia per questa fede di rottura, il cui rapporto ambiguo con l’arte correva sul filo dell’iconoclastia. Alcuni dei suoi dipinti erano a sfondo moraleggiante, ma privi di pesantezza e anzi ricchi di quella ventata di rinnovamento che la Riforma aveva portato in tutta Europa. A sostegno del credo luterano Cranach dipinse il grottesco in una serie di quadri sui matrimoni male assortiti, e la duplicità della donna vista come esempio di fedeltà assoluta, come Lucrezia o come diavolo tentatore, come la Venus riccamente agghindata a cui accennavo prima.

The shape of this painter is rich and interesting landscape of the sixteenth century in German, of Wittenberg, the epicenter of the Reformation and beyond. The fame of his abilities as a portraitist crossed the threshold of the courtyard and quickly spread throughout Germany.

Absolutely beautiful landscapes as a backdrop to many of his paintings. Reminiscent of Dürer and Flemish for the wealth of detail, but do not be a mere sum of detail, while maintaining a vision overall balance and a teacher.

Not to miss: 1526, Adam and Eve , She lowers the branch with one hand and the other presents the forbidden fruit, looking at Adam with a seductive look, he with one hand on the apple, the other resting on his head, uncertain. We would like to trust his partner but at the same time, the smell of danger is strong. And we all know how it ended.

Trivia: The picture Cupid complains to Venus was part of Hitler's private collection. Now the National Gallery has launched an appeal for anyone with information to reconstruct the history and ownership of the work.

Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House

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CRAZY FOR Banksy
until March 29
The Andipa Gallery
London

Who knows what he looks, who knows who he is, everyone knows that it is called .. Banksy . He, which marks the streets of London, Bristol, New York and Sydney with graffiti traits purposes, made with large stencils. Banksy's works are sharp satire with a political background (it's anti-war and anti-capitalist), cultural and ethical.

often portrays cops (lost in a passionate kiss gay, while terrifying instead of a smiley face under the helmet, brandishing a club and come forward almost a foretaste of the taste of the assault) and soldiers in war. Photographed in front of them coming in an 'image of ordinary violenza, anche solo accennata dai tratti crudi ed essenziali di stencil e bomboletta, fa davvero balzare agli occhi l’inutilità di quelle morti e quel sangue. E’ curioso come siamo ormai completamente anestetizzati di fronte ad immagini di brutalità inaudita passate alla televisione, mentre ancora ci fanno venire i brividi le stesse scene, solo presentate in un altro modo e magari viste in una galleria piuttosto che al solito telegiornale.

Anche ratti e il mondo animale (un elefante che trasporta una bomba sulla schiena), trovano spazio nei suoi graffiti. E bambini che se a volte sembrano trionfare sulla morte e sulle armi, altre sembrano solo spaesati, troppo piccoli per agire e non subire i giochi dei grandi. Alcune immagini are accompanied by a sentence, but most express your message in the non-verbal language, crude and ironic collection of Banksy.

The success of his work and had 'been enormous, and contentions and are now sold in auctions millions. Indeed, in February 2007, having sold a house on the wall where Banksy had passed, and being aware of the intention of the new owners to remove the wall, a pair of Bristol has turned the bid to a tunnel art. The song 'was sold as a mural with a house attached.

The Andipa Gallery exhibits his work these days too, curiously, in its two branches, to 19 and 162 Walton Street, Chelsea (with miles of files and bouncer!). It appears that Banksy does not like very initiatives. In this respect, his words carry that over to his opinion about his personality give an idea of \u200b\u200bcriticism.
What's with all the gallery shows?
None of the print and painting exhibitions in proper art galleries are anything to do with me, it's all stuff They bought previously. I only ever mount shows in warehouses or war zones or places full of live animals (I'm aware the pictures do not stand up on Their Own).


Not to miss: McDonald and Mickey Mouse holding hands smiling monsters Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese child star of Nick Ut's Vietnam Napalm photo, which won the 1972 Pulitzer.

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SLEEPING & DREAMING WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD
November 29 to March 9
Wellcome Collection London

"We spend a third of our lives sleeping," and for me it is essential that third . Articulates the activities throughout the day, and even good humor.

the dark bursts creativity, but also the worst nightmares. One night in 1713, the violinist Giuseppe Tartini dreamed of a pact with the devil, just for fun, gave him his violin and the devil played the most exciting and complex melody that had ever heard. He woke up and got the violin tried to recreate it, then years passed and failed in an attempt to recapture the memory of a night. For Goya the darkness meant the sleep of reason and come to life by the human mind of fearsome monsters.

Before you slip into unconsciousness .. sang the Doors, but that strange state where you fall in the evening, you can really call unconsciousness? And yet, you can live without sleep? In the fifties the New York disc jockey Peter Tripp has defied every law of nature, and continuing to lead his radio program, broke all records of consecutive wakefulness: 201 hours. 8 days and a half. It seems that the state of hallucination caused by the prolonged lack of sleep had led to a growing paranoia and aggression, so that it is considered that the slope descending from the socket after his career is also due to side effects of that experiment.

As you can see the Wellcome Collection, this question has re-emerged in every moment of human history and has emerged as a fundamental question in the last hundred years. The myth of male who does not need as fellow human beings seems to comes up at different times during the twentieth century. A poster of the thirties, the Weimar Republic shows a sleeping man, tormented by a devil green, angry, the tip of the finger and the other vehemently indicates the mountain of work to do. Another advertising image output in the March 1923 "Science and Invention," less violent but still disturbing, it shows an editor sitting comfortably on an office chair, surrounded by a bundle of electric current and with a tube to hand that at first glance looked like a cigarette. A great clock strikes three in the morning. Rightly charged with electricity and proper oxygenation of the good editor can easily work all night.

I smiled as I looked at the cover of this journal were thinking how naive the men of the twenties. Then I went home and I opened the newspaper online: Berlusconi after a night dedicated to defining the listings says "I did not touch the bed and climbed on stage at the Pala Lido to tear, in a fit of omnipotence, the program of the Democratic Party. Remember too closely said "the captain never sleeps." This myth of the extraordinarily gifted, he can win the fight that all the other men lost every-day needs of the sleep-continues to be put back in his, now we can say, embarrassing naivete. Before acting recklessly would be better to sleep on it. The night brings counsel, it seems.

Not to miss: sleeping and dreaming of Londoners during the bombing of London during World War II sought refuge between the tracks of the subway, closed for the emergency, including Aldwich and Holborn.

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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
8 February to 6 April 2008
The Photographers' Gallery London

The Photographers' Gallery has a fantastic location and an unusual floor plan. The gallery 'at 5 Great Newport Street, but also to no.8. The two buildings are not communicating with their neighbors and they are hosting the same shows, half here and half there. These days there are the works of the four finalists Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is awarded annually to the professional who, during the previous year, has made a major contribution to photography. This year the finalists are John Davies (UK), Jacob Holdt (Denmark), Esko Männikkö (Finland) and Fazal Sheikh (USA).

If I had any ranking staff, crowned John Davies and Jacob Holdt, a dead heat.
Davis exhibits large format photographs, many in black and white, mostly taken between 1979 and 2005. The subjects on which returns are the views of British towns and open spaces, some other desert towns. Places seemingly forgotten, but which lead topography in their signs of recent history, industrial and post-industrial in framed photos of short texts on the side.

Jacob Holdt also tells a story, that large minorities of color in America, and does so through a choice among the thousand pictures ... he has done in five years, now projected onto a wall, all taken by hitchhiker on a trip in the early seventies. The shots of Holdt remain impressed by their intimacy '. It 'been able to reconstruct the heat and passion between a pair of African American boys in a house bare, blind reliance on the protection of the guns of a white middle-class family and the absolute degradation of the bands lowest in the society. Holdt and 'managed to capture the essence of American society of the seventies, with its passions and its contradictions, understanding photography as a means to raise awareness of the extreme social and racial injustice that he had met on his journey.

A complaint Fazal Sheik touches instead a well-defined part of the contemporary Indian population: women. They are the faces of these girls, mature, which set the goal of putting them or shun him. They have all experienced dramatic episodes of violence unprecedented in a country where their lives count for nothing and where the ultrasound is used only to find in advance the sex of the unborn child and to provide early abortion in case it appears female. The stories told in the texts next to the pictures are still so painful that eventually absorb all the attention, putting the background in sharp pictures themselves.

Completely different is the attitude Photographic Esko Männikkö that hunting has become a photographer in the eighties. In his work carries with it the memory of open spaces and quiet isolation in which people and animals living in parts of Lapland and Finland. "I'ma photographer of fish, dogs and old men," he once said.


Not to miss: Agecroft Power Station, Salford (Davis 1983), a coal plant in 1925, then closed. Now the same site is occupied by HM Prison Forest Bank for prisoners of 18-20 years, who play football in the picture as their forms, tiny in front of the immensity of the plant, are lost in a lunar landscape.

The Photographers' Gallery
5 & 8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
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COLAZIONE ALLA TATE

Non so se siete mai riusciti a fermarvi a Londra abbastanza for a long time to fully enjoy the privilege of joining the Tate Modern, but only for half an hour, the time to see a Rothko, then continue your walk on the Thames. I got used to so fast that I think I will struggle to do without it.

The tradition of free access to culture in Britain is long. The oldest museums (National Gallery, British Museum, Tate Britain) had been opened, the eighteenth and nineteenth century and then in the Victorian era, in order to contain and preserve the treasures that belonged to citizens, allowing them to enjoy it every time wishing to do so. too good to pass unscathed the dark days of history. A crackdown has in fact been given by the Iron Lady who imposed many museums the introduction of a ticket, an initiative that had a heavy impact on the number of visitors. The man was the turning point that Tony Blair before embarking on controversial policies, has had time to reopen the museum to a crowd not paying. The proposal was: abolition of the ticket for the permanent collections in exchange for tax breaks and government support in case of major expenses. And it worked. Today, most museums are free admission, along with a constellation of galleries and exhibition spaces. And all far from bankruptcy. The Tate Modern in spite of the astronomical costs of restructuring, has a budget surplus that makes frequent acquisitions.

Then there's a trick?
Moreover, there are three: the maintenance of the tickets for temporary exhibitions, the presence of a well-stocked bookshop opening of adorable Cafe and Tearooms, in bright rooms, furnished in keeping with the style of the museum in they are inserted, but always with taste. Surrounded by a peaceful chatter, you can have a tea with a blueberry muffin or a slice of those delicious cakes beloved by the British. In larger museums, such as the British or the Victoria & Albert can even have a full meal, a Sunday lunch a bit 'different. There is restored by the stand of the exhibition will retrace mentally (and gently) works seen and then get back on path. Finally, the idea is good.

strategies to increase familiarity with art, museums and so on exist and have already been lapped. It would be nice that Italian museums are shaking off the dusty patina of boredom that sometimes surrounds them to once again become places to live, open to the public in the true sense of the word.