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Fernando Prats in the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is celebrating its 54th edition and will open the Pavilion Chile with an exhibition by Fernando Prats, an eclectic and innovative artist, who has printed a change in the contemporary painting. The Chilean artist, who was actually born in Buenos Aires in 1967, has been devoted to art from an early age. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chile in Santiago; he did a specialization in painting at the Massana School and a graduate course at the University of Barcelona, city in which he decided to establish since 1990. His works have been exhibited at the most important contemporary art centers in the world. Those works belong to different art centers and museums such as the Fundación Caixa de Manresa, the Kolumba, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Cologne and Würzburg Diozesan-Museum (both in Germany), as well as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile. The project carried out for the Venice Biennale will be installed in the arsenals of the ancient city, which is one of the most visited during the Biennale. “Gran Sur” is the title of this installation that consists of three works: the first is a creation inspired by the impact of the volcanic eruption that took place in 2008 in Chaiten, the second proposes a series of pieces that allude to the earthquake last year in Chile, and the third is an installation in neon letters that retrieves the announcement of the Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1911, in which he wanted to enlist men for his expedition to Antarctica: “men wanted for risky journey, little...
Picasso and his years in Paris
The Museu Picasso in Barcelona exhibits from the first of July to October 16th the exhibition “Devour Paris. Picasso 1900-1907,” which as its name implies, shows the artist´s evolution since his arrival in the French city. The presentation was organized by both the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands and by the Spanish Cultural Action along with Endesa as a sponsor. Picasso arrived in Paris in 1900 and almost a decade later, managed to obtain massive attention as a leading avant-garde artist in the city settling as the forefront artist of that movement. During this time the man from Malaga had a chance to see the works of Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Van Gogh, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and Rodin among others. As expected, seeing all of these great artists created a huge change in the head of the Spanish Painter who incorporated in his art many of the features that the before mentioned artists had utilized. Due to this reason Picasso explored many new techniques. In “Devour Paris. Picasso 1900-1907″ you can observe no less than 50 works of the Spanish artist fabricated ??through different techniques and, as if this were not enough, 47 other paintings by some of the most important artists of history as Cézanne Van Gogh and Rodin, among others. The idea behind this is not only enjoy them but see what Picasso took from those masters into his own art and how his style evolved through his years in Paris. Van Gogh was one of the few artists which he declared his admiration and respect for. That´s exactly why you see so much influence from the...Chandelier Restaurant Milan
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The Turkish Passion of Antonio Gala
The Spanish writer Antonio Gala is a great novelist internationally recognized that seamlessly works several genres such as novels, plays or poetry. But one of his most famous and beloved by the public novels is “The Turk Passion ” classified as erotic fiction. The main plot of the book is a story of love and passion between a young Spanish woman, Desideria Olives, and a fiery Turkish man, Yaman. They meet on a trip the wife is having with her husband to the beautiful and exotic country of Turkey. Desideria was bored with her ??marriage and lived a life that she had ever desired, so she does not hesitate being seduced by a man who captivated her from the start. He was the tour guide of the whole group, including the husband of the lady, but she did not care and nothing stopped her nor her ability to explore love and sex with the Turk. In the novel each of the sexual acts of the new couple are explained with extreme detail and how passion seizes them builds in crescendo, especially in Desideria Oliván seeking a getaway from the miserable life led with her husband in Huesca. This interesting story is told as if it were read from the intimate diaries of the protagonist, and this increases the readers curiosity the who cannot stop reading the adventure. In 1994, Vicente Aranda filmed this novel of love and sex, but fans of the book say the film does not faithfully reflect the wonder of the novel. d.b To live through the letters, a story of passion like that of...
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka is a very well known author for the quality of his work, although he did not create abundant production, the ones that he created were good enough to conquer the world. With his three published novels and his countless letters to friends and different personalities of the time, he reveled as a sensitive, intelligent and somewhat weak health man. The writer was born in 1883 in Prague and died at the young age of 40 years in Austria. He studied during all his life, he became a lawyer and with every single action he did, he devoted himself to writing. Today he is considered as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His works were translated into all languages and his books are still discussed in the literature classes of the most prestigious universities. The metamorphosis is a short story that Kafka wrote in 1915, which caused a big stir after its publication. Jorge Luis Borges translated the original German into Spanish, and although this was not the first time the book was translated, he was the one who gave more coverage to the story. Borges was an Argentine writer who made Kafka´s Metamorphosis translation, as great as the original. By translating the book into Spanish, ordinary people were becoming aware of this magical book spread around the world. Gregory Samsa is the main character in The Metamorphosis. This is a simple man who lives with his family (father, mother and younger sister) and works to support them. The curious thing about this short novel is that one-day Gregory wakes up transformed into a creature...Lizarran Telheiras Restaurant
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