Thursday, October 12, 2017
POLITIC$
The images used do not belong to me. I have just used for my evil purposes.
Collage.
2017
I feel like I've finally let go a big and important political statement under the resemblance of a crappy collage. Or maybe it's just a crappy piece of art and you should not take me seriously.
Either way... read the paper and judge by yourself.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Sunday, May 28, 2017
SISTER MAGAZINE
Some
time ago I purchased Sister Mag online. Which is, guess what, a magazine created
to empower women and give them voice.
I’m
afraid anything I’ll say will ruin the powerful atmosphere and self-confidence
this magazine gives. So I’ll leave all the links and a bunch of pics.
Enjoy.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Zine Review : GRRRL IN PRINT
Before
even starting. What the hell is a zine?
By
definition a zine is a self-published staple bound magazine featuring original or appropriated
art, comics, photos, poems, rants, reviews... anything creative. Usually they
are run by not-for-profit collectives of people and DIYed.
I
began to make some researches on zines back in 2015 when I purchased HannahPixie’s zine “The Key” in collaboration with Anastasia Tasou and many other
artists from all over the world.
I
later purchased some other zines but only recently I began to be interested in
some activist-feminist zines.
This
is why I bought from Grrrl their first paper zine.
GrrrlZine Fair is a not-for-profit organization based in the UK that puts up inclusive
zine fairs and music events in order to ensure a space where everybody who
doesn’t feel accepted in the mainstream
culture can find a place to have fun. Anybody is invited: women, queer, boys,
gay or straight, black and white. The more diverse the more fun!
This
first issue is about DIY in modern culture and how people include it in their
everyday life. You can purchase it here.
When
the zine arrived in the mail it was inside a recyclable plastic bag, which made
me really happy just for the fact that it was recyclable. So I’d say: good plastic
bag choice! (I’m not being weird. Professional bloggers review even the bags
things come in … so I’m just being professional right now. Hopefully.)
Back
to the topic. Inside the RECYCLABLE bag you’ll find: an A4 magazine with some
BRILLIANT comics stripes and interviews, an A5 zine with playlists, interviews,
art advices, some rad photos and art pieces. Last but not least some other art
pieces and poetry on an A6 format.
And
if you think it’s not enough you’ll get also a stunning A3 poster too. Which
has instantly gained a special place on my wall near the bed as a constant
reminder that Doing It Yourself is better than not doing it at all.
Before
you move on with your life, let me finish this by saying that I strongly
recommend to check them out and if you feel like a nice human being you could
also support them or even take part in some of their activities.
Ok.
I’m done.
Check
them out.
Bye.
(And
no, this wasn’t sponsored.)
Friday, April 28, 2017
SIMONA VINCI - incontro / meeting
This post is divided in two parts: one in italian and one in english.
Scroll down to get directly to the english part or keep reading for the italian one.
Nel complesso è stata un’esperienza molto interessante e senza dubbio bellissima. Non solo l’aver letto un libro così pieno di passione e verità mi ha fatta riflettere, ma anche la possibilità di conoscere una donna come Simona Vinci mi ha dato un po’ di speranza in più per il mio futuro.
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Sabato 8 Aprile ho avuto il piacere di ascoltare
una conferenza dell’autrice Simona Vinci.
Una scrittrice italiana nata a Budrio (Bologna)
che esordì nel 1997 con il romanzo “Dei bambini non si sa niente”.
I professori ci hanno preparati all’incontro
facendoci leggere il suo ultimo libro “La prima verità”. Mi ricordo che non
appena vidi la copertina del libro rimasi molto intrigata. Un infante che fa il
gesto del silenzio con il dito. Quando poi la prof di italiano iniziò a
raccontarci di ciò che parlava mi appassionai completamente.
Il libro pubblicato a fine anno scorso parla di
malattia mentale. Due parole che non riescono nemmeno lontanamente a riassumere
il contenuto del romanzo, che va oltre la rielaborazione di fatti realmente
accaduti. Una storia, anzi, molte storie, che si intrecciano e intrappolano il
lettore fino alla fine.
“La prima verità” è un libro molto difficile,
richiede particolare attenzione da parte del lettore. Ma soprattutto non fa
sconti a nessuno e colpisce dritto nel segno: la coscienza profonda di ognuno
di noi.
Sentir parlare di persona la voce che prima ci si
immaginava solo in testa mentre si leggeva è sempre un’esperienza interessante.
Ma soprattutto è interessante ascoltare come l’autrice parla dei personaggi e
delle storie che ha raccolto nelle pagine del libro.
Durante l’incontro l’autrice ha trattato di temi
importanti, come la memoria e la malattia mentale. Ha detto che è molto facile
etichettare come “malato” ciò che semplicemente è diverso da noi. La Vinci
stessa ha ammesso che se fosse nata anche solo cinque anni prima della sua
effettiva data di nascita avrebbe potuto essere rinchiusa in un manicomio a
causa della sua irrequietezza e costante distrazione a scuola.
Successivamente qualcuno le ha fatto una domanda che
l’ha portata a parlare della sua concezione personale di arte. Secondo Simona
Vinci qualunque forma d’arte nasce da una ribellione, scaturita a sua volta da
rabbia. Rabbia che lei conosce bene perché ha affermato di aver scritto molti
suoi precedenti libri con rabbia, solo successivamente ha capito che quel
sentimento non può essere solo fine a se stesso. La rabbia deve avere uno
scopo.
Non potevo che essere d’accordo con tutto ciò che
diceva. E più parlava più il mio sorriso si faceva grande. Una scintilla di
follia e anormalità probabilmente ci accomuna, anche se io non ho neanche la
metà del suo talento nello scrivere.
Parlando di stranezze, non appena finita la
presentazione Simona Vinci si è resa disponibile a firmare le copie del suo
libro. Così mi sono letteralmente catapultata davanti perché avevo qualcosa da
dirle. Mi sono avvicinata e lei mi ha accolta con un sorriso curioso mentre
provavo a dare un senso compiuto alle mie parole. Le ho allungato un disegno,
che rappresenta un occhio dietro ad un muro, ma non uno qualsiasi. È il muro
dove venivano rinchiusi, o meglio, lanciati, i malati più gravi, gli
irrecuperabili, nell’isola di Leros (dove sono ambientate le storie). Quell’occhio
blu che fissa lo spettatore da una crepa nel cemento è stata tra le immagini
più forti dell’intero libro. Così, dato che l’immagine era tanto vivida nella
mia testa, ho deciso di portarla su carta.
Solo qualche giorno prima mi era venuta in mente
l’idea di portarle il disegno. Solitamente i miei “capolavori” li tengo in un
raccoglitore poco costoso chiuso in un armadio.
Sono anche un po’ gelosa dei suddetti “capolavori”
così ne avevo fatto una copia: l’originale gliel’ho data e la copia me la sono
fatta autografare.
La dedica che mi ha scritto è tra le cose più
belle che una persona mi abbia mai detto. La sua voce, profonda e calma, mi ha
accarezzato il cuore mentre mi allontanavo dal tavolo dove era seduta. E mi
sono sentita ancora più lusingata quando ho scoperto che quello stesso
pomeriggio, ad un’altra conferenza, ha parlato del mio disegno di fronte alla
platea di spettatori.
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Saturday
the 8th of April I had the pleasure of participating to a conference
held by the author Simona Vinci.
She
is an Italian writer born in Budrio (Bologna) who debuted in 1997 with the
novel “Dei bambini non si sa niente”.
Our
teachers prepared us for the meeting by letting us read her last book “La prima
verità”. I remember that as soon as I saw the cover of it I was really
intrigued. It portrays a baby while doing the silence sign with the index.
Then, when my Italian teacher started to tell us what the book was about I got
into it completely.
The
book was published at the end of last year (2016) and is about mental
illnesses. Two words that cannot even remotely sum up the essence of the book,
which goes over the re-elaboration of true facts happened in the past. A story,
well, many stories, that link and trap the reader till the end.
“La
prima verità” (literally translated means “The first truth”) is a really
difficult book, particularly demanding for the reader. But above all it doesn’t
spare anyone and hits right in the spot: each
human’s deep conscience.
Listening
to the actual person whose voice was just an imagination in your head while you
were reading is always an interesting experience. But even more interesting was
listening to the author speaking about the characters and stories she collected
in the book.
During
the meeting the author has debated some important topics such as memory and
mental illness. She stated that it’s almost too easy to label as “ill”
something just different from us. The author herself admitted that maybe if she
were born five years before her actual day of birth she could have been put in
a sanitarium because of her restlessness and her constant distraction at
school.
Subsequently
someone asked her something that brought her on the topic of art and how she
perceives it. To her, every form of art begins with a rebellious act,
originated by anger. The same anger that she put into her first writings of
previous books. Only afterwards she understood that anger couldn’t just end in
itself. Anger must have a purpose.
I
completely agree with what she said. And the more she spoke the bigger my smile
got. A sparkle of madness and abnormality probably are the things we have in
common, even though I have half of her talent when it comes to writing.
Talking
about weirdness: as soon as the meeting ended Simona Vinci said she was
available to sign the copies of the book. So I literally threw myself near her
because I had something to tell her. I got closer and she welcomed me with a
curious smile while I was trying to put the words in a full sense all together.
I handed her a drawing portraying an eye behind a wall, but not a random one.
The wall where the most ill were thrown into, the lost ones, in the island of
Leros (where the stories take place).
That
blue eye that stares at the reader for the entire book was the strongest of all
the settings described in the book. So, since that image was so vivid in my
head, I decided to put it on paper.
Only
a couple of days before the meeting I decided to bring her the drawing. I
usually keep my “piece of art” in a cheap binder hidden in my closet.
But
since I’m quite jealous of the above-mentioned “pieces of art” I did a copy of
it. I gave the author the original one and asked her to sign the copy.
The
message she wrote for me is one of the most beautiful things a person ever said to me. Her voice, deep and calm,
caressed my heart while I walked away from the table she was sitting at. And
I’ve felt even more flattered when I discovered that later that evening she
showed my drawing to the audience at a conference she held.
Overall
it has been a really interesting experience and without a doubt beautiful. Not
only I read a book full of passion and truth but I also had the possibility to
meet a woman like Simona Vinci. All of this gave me some hope for my future.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
WOODPECKER DISCO
March
26th was a day dedicated to the main museums and artistic sites in
my city and surrounding.
That’s
why I decided to get back to the dismissed disco ”Woodpecker” in Milano Marittima,
near Ravenna.
It
formerly was a disco built in 1966 by Filippo Monti, the architect that planned
the building and dispositions. It was a revolutionary building at the time,
divided in different pools filled with water, and a big dome covered the dance floor.
Unluckily
the disco was closed in 1975 after a big fire destroyed some parts of the
building.
Now
it is an abandoned place. I explored it two years ago and took some crappy
pictures of the amazing graffiti inside the dome, done by the great Italian
street artist Blu.
I
got back some weeks ago and took some better pictures.
Enjoy.
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