Tag: BOOKS

UN ARCHIVIO TUTTO PER NOI |Conversazioni con Eliana Negroni

Il blog THE MORNING BARK  festeggia  nel 2021 il suo decimo anno di attività e sono contenta di poter condividere con tutti voi un nuovo progetto nato in collaborazione con Eliana Negroni e l’Archivio Negroni – Tools for Contemporary Craft.

La serie di incontri via web “Un Archivio tutto per noi” nasce da un’idea di Eliana Negroni, maker e curatrice del concorso per gioielleria contemporanea  e di ricerca GIOIELLI INFERMENTO, per la condivisione di idee, parole, pensieri, letture e libri preferiti  attraverso una serie di incontri/intervista via web.

Con Eliana abbiamo parlato di storie di preziosità, Preziosismo, di donne, di libri belli, di gioielli storici e contemporanei: qui di seguito i video (ma stiamo già lavorando ai prossimi incontri!) sia in italiano sia in Inglese.

In fondo alla pagina troverete la bibliografia, le sedi museali per fare un video tour e i link ai siti degli artisti menzionati.

BUONA VISONE!

Episodio 1 “L’ALLEGRO SVOLAZZO”

Episodio 2 “LE RELAZIONI PERICOLOSE”

Justus Sustermans, Ritratto di Maria Maddalena D’Austria, olio su tela, 1623, Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi (Source: wikipedia)

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THE MORNING BARK  celebrates its tenth year of activity in 2021 and I am happy to share with you all a new project born in collaboration with Eliana Negroni and the Archivio Negroni – Tools for Contemporary Craft.

The series of web meetings “An Archivio of our own” was born thanks to Eliana Negroni, maker and curator of the competition for contemporary jewellery GIOIELLI INFERMENTO, in order to share  ideas, words, thoughts, readings and favorite books through a series of meetings / interviews via web.

Together with Eliana we talked about stories of preciousness, Préciosité, of women, of beautiful books, of historical and contemporary jewels: here are the videos (but we are already working on the next meetings!)

At the bottom of the page you will find the book references, the  collection/institution list  just to take a tour and links to the sites of the artists mentioned.

STAY TUNED!

Episode 1 “THE BLUE ROOM of Madame de Rambouillet”

Episode 2 “THE DANGEROUS LIAISONS”

View of the Hôtel de Rambouillet and its gardens in Rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre (Source: Wikipedia)

BIBLIOGRAFIA/ BOOK REFERENCES

  • PIERO ALOISI, “Alcuni diamanti medicei”  in Bollettino d’arte del Ministero della pubblica istruzione : notizie dei musei, delle gallerie e dei monumenti d’Italia , Anno 25, ser. 3, n.8 (feb. 1932), p. 349-358;
  • HELEN W. DRUTT ENGLISH – PETER DORMER, Jewelry of our time. Art, ornament and obsession, 1995 New York, Rizzoli International Publication – ISBN 0-8478-1914-0;
  • CINDY STRAUSS (a cura di/ed.), Ornament as art. Avant-garde jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, The Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston; 2007 Houston, The Fine Arts Museum and ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers  – ISBN 978-3-89790-273-2;
  • MARIA SFRAMELI (a cura di), I gioielli dei Medici dal vero e in ritratto, catalogo della mostra , Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, 12 settembre 2003 – 2 Febbraio 2004; 2003 Livorno, Sillabe edizioni  – ISBN  88-8347-197-0;
  • BENEDETTA CRAVERI, Maria Antonietta e lo scandalo della collana; 2006 Milano, Adelphi, Biblioteca Minima – ISBN  978-88-459-2105-6;
  • BENEDETTA CRAVERI, La civiltà della conversazione, 2001 Milano, Adelphi – ISBN 9788845916175 (tr. English BENEDETTA CRAVERI, The age of conversation, 2005 The New York Review of Books – translator Teresa Waugh – ISBN 1590171411 (ISBN13: 9781590171417));
  • BENEDETTA CRAVERI, Amanti e Regine, 2005 Milano, Adelphi – ISBN 9788845919992;
  • BENEDETTA CRAVERI, Gli Ultimi Libertini, 2016 Milano Adelphi – ISBN 97-8884-5930-362 (tr. English BENEDETTA CRAVERI, The last libertines, 2020 The New York Review of Books –translator Aaron Kerner – ISBN-10 : 1681373408 – ISBN-13 : 978-1681373409);
  • ORIETTA ROSSI PINELLI, François Boucher, collana ART DOSSIER, 1999 Giunti Editore– ISBN 8809762282;
  • ORIETTA ROSSI PINELLI, Le Arti nel Settecento europeo, 2009 Torino, Einaudi – ISBN 8806197487;
  • PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS, Le Relazioni Pericolose, Mondadori – traduzione di Antonia Marza;
  • ELIANA NEGRONI (ed.), GIOIELLI IN FERMENTO, cataloghi della mostra per gli anni 2015, 2016.
  • ANGELIKA NOLLERT et al. (eds), Untitled, Thomas Gentille. American Jeweller, Arnoldsche Art Publishers – ISBN 978-3-89790-466-8;
  • MIRELLA CISOTTO NALON at al.(eds.), Pensieri Preziosi  11, Simbolo, Ruudt Peters e Evert Nijland. Voci della gioielleria contemporanea olandese, 2015.

ARTISTS’ LIST

GIJS BAKKER – http://www.gijsbakker.com/

PETER CHANG – https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/19572/peter-chang/objects

HIROKO SATO PIJANOWSKY – https://www.hirokosato-pijanowski.com/fullpage.html

 HIROKO SATO PIJANOWSKY https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/57952/neckpiece?ctx=f539b12b79244f1201a727c54bed139be03e9523&idx=0

LUCY SARNEEL – https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/artists/lucy-sarneel

NAAMA BERGMAN – https://www.naamabergman.com/

EVERT NIJLAND – http://www.evertnijland.com/

FEDERICA SALA – https://www.federicasala.org/

THOMAS GENTILLE – https://www.pinakothek.de/en/exhibitions/untitled-thomas-gentille-american-jeweler

MIKI ASAI –  https://www.mikiasai.com/

BETTINA SPECKNER – https://www.bettina-speckner.com/40983.html

ALEJANDRA SOLAR – http://www.alejandrasolar.com/

GEORGIA GREMOUTI – http://www.georgiagremouti.com/

LIANA PATTIHIS –  http://www.pattihis.com/

Sedi Museali/Collections/ Galleries and Musea

PALAZZO PITTI, Galleria Palatina, Firenze/Florence

ALTE PINAKOTHEK, Monaco di Baviera

VILLA EPHRUSSI DE ROTHSCHILD, Cap Ferrat

THE FRICK COLLECTION, New York

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON, Houston, Texas (USA)

HELEN WILLIAM DRUTT COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY STUDIO JEWELLERY AT MFA HOUSTON

THE REAL ALPHABET OF ME | a funny guide of your blogger

When I’m following a blog I’m always curious about the person who is behind that.  So, if  it might have happened to you of being curious about me..well… I ‘ve decided to start this guide to let you know who I am…by a funny alphabet guide (without any precise order, anyway…so be ready..it’s going  a random alphabetical guide) to satisfy your curiosity and my analysis!!!

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A as ART  (see also Dutch and Flemish art history, Flemish primitives, Contemporary jewellery – forthcoming)

One cannot live without Art: whether in case of fine arts or music, movies ballet dance  literature poetry…     Really poor the one who thinks that we could and should live without them: such a boring life!

Art and artists always provided good questions for the entire world and always detected  very early the wind of change. Arts shock, overwhelm and never explain themselves: it is a mixture of collisions, shouts and silences. We are the key to understand them, admire them and, very often, be consumed.

And, as my wise friend R. once said to me, “When you’re feeling blue, sad…whenever the entire world seems not to understand you…remember that you have art. Whoever you are, if Art is in your life, it SAVES YOU” (or it damns you…)

It’s true.

B as BACH (see also Ancient and Classical Music- forthcoming)

I was twelve when classical music broke into my life: first it was with Milos Forman’s “Amadeus” and then my parents let my curiosity fly away….and I met him: Johann Sebastian Bach. The Father of us all.

As an avid listener, I had really no idea with which kind of composition I had to start listening to him so I followed my nose and the very first oeuvre I’ve ever listened of Bach was the Branderburg Concerts conducted by Yehudi Menhuin, still in my heart.

Then came Glenn Gould, his recordings, the Variations (I have almost twenty different editions of Goldberg Variations not only the two recorded by Gould)  and all the piano works that I never  get tired to listen to. And then all the cantatas, partitas,  concertos…and so on…

As it happens in literature and with books, music provides a composition for your temper, your troubles, your feelings and your mood: it is a continuous research and discover: it leads you both to ancient music and to contemporary sonorities and composers and will always be part of your life.

One thing more about Bach (and classical music): forget the fact it relaxes you! Classical music and, especially the one of Bach, always confronts you with the inner an unveiled part of you. Try with The Musical Offer and The Well-Tempered Clavier and let me know.

B as BOOKS

Really…shall I have to explain what books mean to me? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

L as LIPSTICK  (beware before reading!  It might be addictive !!!)

I do not remember where I read this news or when I’ve listened to it, but the fact is that during time of economic crisis, make-up sales reach their maximum: à la tête de la course, of course, lipsticks and nail lacquers.

No wonder about that because the overquoted Coco Chanel, once again, said the truth: “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack!”: nothing could be more true about me…and the lipstick.

I might tell you that my affair with lipstick always has to do with:

  • the name. Seriously speaking: could anyone resist to a “Tumultuous Pink”? Have you ever thought about what there is behind the name of a shade? It’s a promise of seduction and, furthermore, of beauty: a name has to be carefully chosen. Think to those mesmerizing names of Chanel Rouge Allure such as “La Palpitante”, “La Fougeuse” or Dior “Rose Crinoline” (to me this is an hymn to Versailles): it’s the beginning of a love story!!!
  • the shade: you know that there’s more than one red, or pink or orange…
  • The brand: choose the best and avoid dupes: high quality is always a reward (my favourites are Nars, Chanel and Tom Ford.)
  • pigmentation, duration, finish: a good quality lipstick encloses all these qualities and it will fit you at its best.

By the way, I do love collecting lipsticks and wear all of them (not all at the same time..). As for perfumes, my lipstick has to do with identity and it changes with my mood: it speaks about me and reveals how I feel.

30 lipsticks Illustration by KRISTINA HULTKRANTZ aka EMMAKISSTINA via Etsy
30 lipsticks
Illustration by KRISTINA HULTKRANTZ aka EMMAKISSTINA

Therefore a good lipstick changes your face, enhances your traits, makes you feel better… and really BEAUTIFUL!

Now I know that you are in a mood for a flirty, mischievous red lipstick  so, go ahead, listen to the wise suggestions of the great Lisa Eldridge and buy the perfect ruby lipstick for you: it suits to every woman….and it is a trustworthy friend for all seasons.    And remember: retouch your lipstick when you’re all alone: a wonderful lipstick deserves closeness, confidence and intimacy, even Ovid said it once.

A presto,

Nichka