One of the functions of art is to stop time, create
One of the functions of art is to stop time, create a hiatus outside time to view and contemplate. Life is always on the move like time. One moment changes and modifies the previous. We depend on impressions memories to build our view of the world, nature, people we meet, events. Art stills those experiences not just momentarily but endlessly, as long as the artwork survives. That is the true power of art. Of all nature’s creations, wild life is the most elusive. Wild life photographers may spend years trying ...
Beyond Natural Appearances By Leonardo Conti
It is always interesting to stand before young poetics for how far it can seem from one’s own specific area of study or research. Continually re-treading the familiar path of one’s own personal knowledge is a serious form of unknowing shortsightedness on the part of the observer, listener and reader. The contemporary aims to break down barriers of both form and content. The contraposition between iconism and aniconism, intended as an ideological borderland, may now be considered an archaic topic of discussion. It is sufficient to have visited one of ...
BioDiveritArt By Giorgia Cassini
A stunning new exhibition of Maurizio Boscheri, marked by highly topical pictorial rigorism, is being held at the Trento Museum. The exhibition includes a body of paintings, or rather illustrated documents, together with images and news, which reproduce the precious nature, phenomena and endless peculiarities of the wonderful and incomparable treasure of nature. Specifically, the work entitled “Leopard and two Sengi” is a tribute to the research biologists of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali for their discovery of a particular species of mammals: it is a pictorial representation of ...