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Matthew Bakkom in Paris
Until the 4th of November Les Arts decoratif Center in Paris exhibits Face à Face, a project by Matthew Bakkom. The exhibition explores the Paris disappeared in the nineteenth century, which is, found in the photographs and documents of Jules Maciet, who managed to concentrate the greater collection of images of his time. This exhibition is held with the support of the City of Paris and the international residency program from the French Institute, this project was done by the visual artist Matthew Bakkom, who carefully examined the photographic materials of Maciet and discovered a hidden treasure that decided to rescue it from darkness. In order to achieve his objective, he scanned portraits of a booming nineteenth century Paris, with delicate precision. With these portraits, the exhibition Face à Face is organized, which commemorates the centenary of the death of Jules Maciet and a publication entitled The invisible hand by Jules Maciet, in which Bakkom develops a poetic image and apply interesting processes to the work to convey a portrait of Paris Matthew Bakkom was born in Minneapolis, USA, in 1968. In the early 1990, he began working as a visual artist, exhibiting in North America and Europe his work. He has developed interesting projects that place him as an important conceptual artist. He has also conducted creative research collections and archives, which are often used as a basis for his work, while making very interesting proposals. Although his work is difficult to qualify in an artistic discipline, some critics define it as sculpture. In his later works he has used the scanner as an artistic tool to duplicate...
Serpentina Satélite releases a new album in Berlin
Space Rock is a genre which has many aspects and representatives around the globe. From the end of the 60s, this genre hasn´t stopped bringing valuable music which have created legends and a unique and complex musical history in the variety of sounds which float in the air. Bands such as Hawkwind, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul, Spacemen 3, Loop, White Hills, Mugstar, Gnod, The Heads and Farflung are only some of the names who have defined this genre for the last thirty years. Around the world new bands appear, new labels are created and the interest of fans remains decade after decade. One of the most representative South American bands of this genre is Serpentina Satélite. Formed in Lima, Peru, in 2003, this band´s career is already three albums long. The independently edited ´Long Play´ (2004), ´Nothing to Say´ (2008), and the recent ´Mecánica Celeste´ (2010), which came out in London last year thanks to the Rocket Recordings label. The first edition of ´Nothing to Say´ was only available on CD. This 28th of October, the label Trip in Time from Berlin will make it available to all the international crowd in vinyl, especially for collectors and true psych-rock lovers. This is a new opportunity to appreciate this album in a different dimension in terms of format and sound. The album cover has also been re-designed for the LP. ´Nothing to Say´ is an album in which Serpentina Satélite gambles for a much more elaborate sound than the one in its first album. The first song ´Nueva Ola´ is a trip to the purest confines of Krautrock. Guitars and...Sevilla Fest
“Fest” is the biggest event dedicated to theatre and performing arts in Seville.
Crazy Rhythm Festival in Valencia
Crazy Rhythm is a festival which is entirely dedicated to rock music.
Milan Fashion Week in Milan
Milan Fashion Week is an unmissable event for all fashion lovers.
Sei Strambio Trattoria in Milan
At the Sei Strambi Pizzeria you will find the most varied Italian pizzas with original recipes and an oven that cooks all its pizzas with firewood
Dance Season 2011-2012 in Málaga
The Cervantes Theatre in Málaga offers an interesting programme for the 2011-2012 Dance Season.
Franco Fontana in Valencia
Franco Fontana was born in Modena, Italy, in 1933, and he´s famous around the world for making captures where the intense colours saturate over beautiful naked women and landscapes which are, above all, related with the abstract style of his photography. All of his captures are manipulating working with colour, saturating it, modifying it, giving it a different shine and contrast. This means that simple and common photographs of landscapes end up being abstract works of art. On this occasion, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (the Valencian Institute of Modern Art also known as IVAM), one of the most important museums in the whole of Spain, will present the exhibition ´Franco Fontana: The light of the landscape´, which is a retrospective exhibition which will be made up of 139 photographs (30 Polaroid ones and 109 conventional ones). In it you can enjoy his career which has been improving for over 50 years. In Fontana´s work, the Polaroid cameras were used to make some of his most famous, impressive and relevant photographs in which you can see natural landscapes like the sea and elements of nature in general. In many others, Valencia is the protagonist of his captures and the most beautiful corners of the city are shown in his work. Fontana has a magical and unique vision of photography. He thinks that through it you can discover a reality full of suggestion, mystery and fantasy, and that the photographs should make the invisible become visible. Fontana is one of the most famous photographers who still works taking photographs in different parts of the world through which he shows...
Enric Sagnier in Barcelona: Count Dracula of Modernism
Just like the Samoan writer Albert Hanover proclaimed the magnificent film ´Ed Wood´ by Tim Burton as perhaps one of the greatest films of all time, one of the reasons of the quick diminishing fame of the unique Transylvanian actor Béla Lugosi (despite the love and the admiration that his figure has always generated among certain sectors of the less conventional culture, of which not just the film by Burton gives proof but also, for example, the chilling song of Bauhaus which announces its death. Time doesn´t forgive anybody, it passes relentlessly and quickly, all over us, throwing illustrious bodies to the sombre crypts of oblivion surrounded by more and more shrouds of amnesia) was the fact of having turned down the role of the Frankenstein monster, a role which made Karloff into the new star who had to be eclipsed, for not being able to appreciate in him -there was the Central European dandy who the image of Count Dracula popularized for the first time – either romance, nor glamour nor voice presence, nor drama nor mystery. So in a probable related manner, part of the fame of the Catalan architect Enric Sagnier (1858-1931) – for the amount of family pantheons built, by the dandy dress of mirrors of his design of the legendary bar of the creepy disappeared Hotel Colón which occupied the corner of Plaça Catalunya and Passeig de Gràcia, for the noble condition which was given to him due to the number of schools and churches (we suspect that possibly with their respective crypts) which he made for free or for the sepulchral symbolism of...Ladurée Paris
The Ladurée bakeries, spread around Paris, offer exquisite macarons and other sweets to take away or to sample in its shops.
