Hou Hsiao-Hsien: THE ASSASSIN

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China in the ninth century, a ten-year-old Nie Yinniang, is subtracted to parents and grew to become a murderer and fight corruption and cruelty rampant among the provinces of the Empire. Thirteen years later, following the failure of a mission, the punishment imposed by his teacher of combat is even harder than the rigid discipline which she faced: Nie Yinniang will return to her native

Anci Sandell: With Music We Care!

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After 35 years as a music therapist, Anci Sandell can now present research findings showing that the therapy methods she uses, increases quality of life for people who are being treated for severe medical or psychosocial conditions. On February 22, she will defend her doctoral thesis “Musik för kropp och själ – Modell för interaktiv musikterapi” (“Music for Body and Soul – Model for Interactive

Artavazd Pelešjan: Kyanq

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Artavazd Pelešjan was born on February 22, 1938 in Leninakan (now Gyumri), city of the northeast near the border with Turkey. In 1963 he enrolled in the oldest and most prestigious film school in the world, the VGIK in Moscow. For four years he attended a course in directing, following in-depth studies on the masters of Soviet cinema, Eisenstein, Vertov, Romm, Yutkevich, Parajanov, but also

Simone Pheulpin: Fossile Textile

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Born in Nancy in 1941, Simone Pheulpin is a self-taught artist living between the Vosges Mountains and Paris. For the past thirty years, Simone has drawn inspiration from the Vosges natural landscapes to create unique sculptures in the shape of rocks and fossils, using tightly folded strips of cotton held together by thousands of invisible pins. Her pieces have been widely exhibited and collected by

Yun Woo Choi: Fragments of the Universe

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What is real? Where am I living? What do I perceive is the real? Artist Yun Woo Choi asks questions. He is wondering if invisible things – like his emotions, supernatural phenomena, dreams, God – are real and if they have some space of their own. Thoughts like these are the starting point for his work. In recent theoretical physics, there are fourteen dimensions which

Akiko Ikeuchi: Silk Vortices

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Born in Tokyo in 1967, Akiko received a doctorate in painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. For over two decades she has been hanging her delicately crafted string sculptures in galleries around Japan, Korea, and New York. The installations are constructed from extremely delicate silk threads, and despite the chaotic appearance of the knotted webs Akiko plans each work as

Ciao, dolcezza! December 13, 2015

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Risekult Associazione Culturale di Milano in collaborazione con ArtDesignBox, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, l’Università delle Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, l’Istituto Alberghiero Giolitti Bellisario di Mondovì presentano “Ciao, dolcezza!” incontro tra arte contemporanea e cioccolato, mostra itinerante. Gli studenti hanno creato opere riferendosi ad un immaginario rapporto con una materia così evocatrice come il cioccolato da tempo ispiratore di importanti artisti. Le opere di

Getoutofyourskin: Dionysian Dynamic Spirit

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GETOUTOFYOURSKIN explores the bond between what Nietzsche calls the “Dionysian spirit”, the root of human being, and the “Apollonian spirit”, the ideal of the social man. Caterina Ciuffoletti visualized the elementary side of the human anatomy and, as its antithesis, the images of Christian iconography. She molded these features into the figure of an iconic man dressed in his humanity, wearing the trinity-skull. The result

Yuri Pardi: Monumental

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garments appear to be carved from stone in University of East London graduate Yuri Pardi’s Minimalism-influenced fashion collection. Pardi showed his Monument collection during UEL’s catwalk show on Sunday, as part of Graduate Fashion Week held at London’s Old Truman Brewery. His grey wool garments are intended to extend parts of the body to create minimal, angular forms. The rigid volumes that protrude from the

SABINE DELAFON: I AM HUNGRY

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From 2014 Sabine Delafon buys homeless paper signs where they say to be hungry. She talks with them and photographs the purchase of their advertisements. The paper cards are then photographed and the photos are printed in black and white in a 100×700 cm format. On every poster at the bottom a small notice says: “Fill the blank in you and be part of