Works: musical paintings

rocco granata

WORKS: AN ART INSTALLATION TO FIND MUSICAL PAINTINGS

What if instead of looking for something to listen to, something finds you?

Works” is a musical project and an art installation. A collection of 12 instrumental pieces written and produced by Rocco Granata.
12 small musical paintings with the aim of arousing emotions in those who listen to them.

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Winckelmann and the unpublished monuments of antiquity

Ritratto di Winckelmann

Girolamo Carattoni, “Ritratto di J. J. Winckelmann” ripreso dal dipinto di Anton von Maron, 1783, incisione all’acquaforte, 26 x 18,5 cm – Raccolta Piancastelli, Biblioteca Comunale “A. Saffi”, Forlì

WINCKELMANN and the “Unpublished monuments of antiquity”

Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a refined and innovative scholar.
He was one of the greatest classical scholar, theoretician and father of history of art, and this year we’ll celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth.

In Switzerland (which in 2016 he had celebrated the birth of Dada) will celebrate Winckelmann with an exhibition running from February 5th to May 7th 2017.

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Lucienne Bloch: inside the life of Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

1932 Mexico Frida by the Cactus ©Lucienne Bloch

LUCIENNE BLOCH: INSIDE THE LIFE OF FRIDA KAHLO

The Ono Arte Contemporanea Gallery presents “Lucienne Bloch: dentro la vita di Frida Kahlo” ( Lucienne Bloch: inside the life of Frida Kahlo ), a photographic exhibition illustrating the friendship between Frida and Lucienne.

“I hate you” are the first words Frida said to Lucienne Bloch during the party at the MoMA of New York in 1931, arranged to celebrate Diego Rivera who, at that time would have frescoed seven panels for his solo exhibition at the MoMA, and Rivera and Lucienne seated near all night long, talking mostly about the fresco technique.

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