Between Myth and Reality: Art and Culture from the Land of the Rising Sun - Ineffabile perfezione. La fotografia del Giappone a Lugano

Ineffabile perfezione. La fotografia del Giappone. 1860-1910 sarà ospitata a Villa Ciani e Araki Love and Death al Museo d’Arte di Villa Malpensata. Due indagini parallele che partono dalla seconda metà dell’ottocento e tracciano un filo nell’iconografia del Sol Levante fino alla contemporaneità.
Una collezione rara, che traccia anche un’indagine antropologica molto delicata, tra documentazione e messa in posa. A fianco alle foto, circa 50 opere d’arte tra sculture e oggetti, come un’armatura di Samurai del XV secolo e diversi abiti.

The Rising Sun is going to shine in Lugano this coming Autumn and Winter! Five great exhibitions and a mixture of smaller events combine for a comprehensive journey into Japanese culture; from the origins of art and ancient traditions, right up to the most contemporary forms of artistic expression. Lugano's Museo Cantonale d'Arte and Villa Ciani park revive the group's most intense and significant periods of work in the search for new languages and forms of expression, some forty years after its dissolution.
Villa Ciani plays host to the most comprehensive temporary exhibition of the traditions of Japanese photography ever to be undertaken, world-wide. Focusing on the period from 1860 to 1910, numerous precious objects from this country's extraordinary culture will also be on display

Sabine Pigalle *Protection*

Il perdurare dei miti e la coabitazione del mondo profano nella rappresentazione del sacro
The persistence of myths and the cohabitation of the profane world in representation of the sacred

Jean Charles de Castelbajac The Tyranny of beauty

The Tyranny of beauty
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
September 11 → October 23, 2010 Slash Gallery

Following a first solo show in London, The Triumph of Sign, an installation on the Pont Neuf, Astronomy Domine, and in keeping with the same obsession, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac now brings us The Tyranny of Beauty at La B.A.N.K.

For the past 40 years, Castelbajac has been using detourn and appropriations to create bridges between practices and signs and to trigger questions.

The tyranny in question is that of an insatiable need to please, of youth’s domination, of a quest for immortality and of the denial of time past.

Castelbajac adds trait, logo, sign or brand obliteration to classic master paintings. As if creams, capsules or other artifices could open up a path to and stamp their radiant faces with indelible copyrights.

The Chinese copyists’ oil paintings are based on ancestral techniques. They reduce to the state of manufacture a selection of Western Art’s masterpieces. By reproducing works from our heritage, the artist reclaims History and images of beauty at their height of refinement. His aim is to demonstrate that everyone can do beauty and good, like in the Snow White syndrome in a series of Flanders tapestries.

http://www.jc-de-castelbajac.com/
http://www.slash.fr/en/evenements/the-tyranny-of-beauty

Laurie Lipton.

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.










Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail.”

http://www.laurielipton.com/