tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26713448715808227012012-02-21T03:01:07.088+01:00The people, events, and stories behind ArtSEEN journal and ArtSEEN PLUSGordana Bezanovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12568296826062780519noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671344871580822701.post-70985944523981573622008-01-04T14:41:00.000+01:002008-01-04T14:48:42.843+01:00

Wishing you all a Happy 2008!Our new website will soon be running!www.number5.chSee you there!

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"Mond" in process _saline solution, hot plate, heat resistant tape, generous helping hands_october 5, 2007_zürichTo you, our collaborators, friends and companions of many a path:Thank you.Thank you for your emails. It is heart warming to receive them!I’m sorry this “change of path” for ArtSEEN journal came as a shock to some of you.ArtSEEN journal, if you wish to see it this way, is but a name,

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This team proves yet again that come hell or high water, we maintain our promise!This is our last edition of ArtSEEN journal.Precisely because it is our last SEEN, we felt it necessary to work even harder to bring it out to you, bearing with courage difficult moments and taking our time in order to make sure this last issue arrives complete!As always a small surprise, all I anticipate is the

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Julian Schnabel and Lou Reed survive through a press conference (on the film "Berlin") in Spain this summer.Willing or not, the duo made a fantastic performance!See link below!(the dialogues in English are fab- live translation! The Spanish are even better!)http://sansebastian.mister-i.com/galerias2007/pelicula_in2.jsp?id=550201

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We all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun - John LennonThe job of an artist is not to destroy but to change the value of things.And by doing that, artists can change the world into a Utopia where there istotal freedom for everybody.That can be achieved only when there istotal communication in the world.Total communication equals peace.That is our aim.That is what artists can do for

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In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to

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The Elephant's Childby Rudyard KiplingIN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many

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working on ArtSEEN journal, issue 1, spring 06 - layout on the wall,with proof prints of Martin Siegrist's intervention "No"The summer ArtSEEN journal is flying: you can find it in various galleries, where it is reported it sits on the desk of the gallerist who shows it to all; the Chinese and Japanese love it; from Puert Rico there are possibilities of participation in various events; in Berlin

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April Woods, Christian Rainer I had the chance to meet Christian Rainer in Trentino lately where I was invited to have a personal show. Christian had three pieces during the whole event that lasted for 3 days, among those Falena:City lights were entirely turned off, while Christian played the piano inside the Church and you could hear his music going through all the darkness, like introducing

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"wie seltsam glimmert durch die Gründeein morgenrötlich trüber Schein!Und selbst bis in die tiefen Schlündedes Abgrunds wittert er hinein"(Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust I, Walpurgisnacht )hi gordana,today my proposal for the pool of the youngest looked like this.i just wanted to design like nature 1000 meters below zero in the sea.they thought, it was a joke. i found it quite funny,

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One year ago we thought of starting a supplement to ArtSEEN Journal as a solution for our constant changes on format and the difficulty it created for us to be able to sell advertisement in different sizes everytime.That is how ArtSEEN Plus was born!!! We thought of it as an Art Guide, as a "Printed show" where artists, galleries and even art students had the chance to promote their work for

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In the weeks after the SEEN is printed, we usually have a bit more time to dedicate to other aspects of work and life, aspects that nevertheless are continuous... Here’s what the three of us are up to these days, a self interview!Andrew J: AJGordana: GSandra: SWhat are you doing right now?AJ: Teaching a class in 20th Century Italian Art History.G: Sitting at the computer, glad of the ventilator

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We've been quoted!http://undo.net/Pressrelease/edit06/In Italian only...

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Jason Mena, installation viewI liked this work so much, I had to steal it. I did ask permission before stealing it, and it was granted. So, here is the first legally stolen pic for blog!xxxg

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As fireworks are sounding off in the distance, here is a preview of ArtSEEN 6!!!The "proof print" - and...I am very proud of all of us: Neil, Andrew, Elena, Marina, Martin, Sandra, Vittorio, Marco, Fede, Melissa, Ketty - me - for getting this issue together! Well done to us!!! Thank you all! Thank you to all the people behind the SEENs too: David, Gian, Silvia, Jason!xxxxxxg

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We are going to be out latter than we thought – the reason is we have, err, underestimated our communal capacity – we have some 70 pages of text, and some 100 pages of images!!! How did we do that kids? Well, it seems several of us just had to write more than 2000 words this time round.We really don’t feel like cutting the images, and anyway, even if we tried to do 100 pages only, we’d have some

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If you can travel this summer, go to Münster. Go to Münster because you will see beautiful works there, installations in public space. Go to Münster because you will be really able to live the works that are there, the works from 1977, 1987, 1997, and 2007. You will walk through a town, and if you don’t have the little map with you which shows you which sculpture is where, you might just get

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I'm in the wrong art world!!! I'm in the art world where one still cleans ones own brushes, if one has the space to do ones own paintings in! I'm in the art world where one does ones own translations! I'm in the art world where parties involve some 15 people squashed in my little studio which is office to ArtSEEN and Büro Zürich in Florence, and where one has to negotiate the narrow floor space

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The narrative for this e-mail will inevitably begin in the middle of things or 'in mezzo delle cose' because that is exactly where we are at. Of course there is always a beginning as well. We started our travels a few weeks ago in Venice and then ended up in Muenster via Kassel. There was so much to see and in some of the other blogs you can catch a glimpse of what we will be discussing in the

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Ask not why, but it is said so, at least in Italian, that when you're under pressure and working to catch up with a dead line, such as printing date (imagined or not - ha! I am the Editor after all!), that you are working “under all the Furies.”Mythological Greek goddesses of vengeance and law-keeping, their heads blowing wild live snakes, fulminating any wrong-doer, I guess having them above

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Stuart Urban receiving the Lancia Award in Bologna, June 10thWe are very pleased to announce that Stuart Urban is the winner of the top prize, the Lancia Award, at the Biografilm Festival, which has been awarded for his film "Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead" on June 10th, 2007.http://www.biografilm.it/home.phpArtSEEN journal Team congratulates Stuart on this achievement!Well done!(for more info, please

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Walking through the Arsenale corridor to get to the press office, telling each other we will look at the work afterwards, but it's impossible not to give it at least a glance… Quickly realized: a lot of good choices and others that in my opinion were not exactly the best…You get your bag, nice green and magenta bag for press people, and it is only the beginning of a whole bag competition, it's

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When trying to write about such a big event it is inevitable that everything starts to run together especially since everything is so fresh on my mind. But I'll do my best to give you an idea of some of the things that struck me as particularly worth while.Sigmar Polke paintings - It was actually the first thing I saw. Well, actually not the first thing. We managed to see a big chunk of the

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Morning coffee at the hotel - it tasted as it looks - suspicion was it was made with Laguna water because we could not conceive how otherwise it could taste so badVenice – oh my god.Venice is a tourist play-town. I am not sure how many pigeons live in Venice, but I am sure there are more pigeons than Venetians around.Venice is a romantic weekend destination, destined to leave your pockets turned

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We're off to see the Big Exhibitions - Venice Biennale, Documenta Kassel, and the Münster Sculpture Project!!! We'll try to send you postcards, via the blog! We'll keep our eyes open for those Hidden moments!A presto!

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The Jury, composed of ArtSEEN journal Editorial Team, and the External Jury member, Denis Isaia, is pleased to announce and publish the Winner, and Co-Winners of Drawing Conclusions ’07. The selection of works here presented shows the variety of approaches to drawing that are being produced world wide: from the more traditional approach of ink or charcoal or pencil on paper, to drawing used for

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And we have arrived to the 16th of May - in the last weeks since we launched the ArtSEEN drawing competition, we've received many entries, from many artists, and from different countries! It has been very exciting, almost like Christmas, to open our info box each day and look at the new images that arrived during the night!We have diligently filed all the entries: images, name, email, CV's where

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Rachel Whiteread 'Untitled 'Six Spaces'Dear Editors,I was in York, England two weeks ago, and had the opportunity to check out the "Relationships: Contemporary Sculpture" exhibit at the York Art Gallery. I had just read the winter issue on "the standard" on the flight from Pisa to York, so I had it in mind as I checked out some interesting pieces (including Damien Hirt's "Relationships" and

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Denis Isaia – External JurorDenis Isaia is an art critic and curator based in Bolzano, Italy.He is currently curating the Best Art Practice international competition for young curators, www.bestartpractices.it…as well as co-curating (with Valerio Dehó) From and to at Kunst Merano Arte from October 2007 to January 2008, featuring the works of Philipp Messner, Laura Papperina, Michael Fliri,

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Art Competition: Drawing Conclusions '07 – First EditionThe Editorial Team of ArtSEEN journal is pleased to announceour latest initiative: Drawing Conclusions, a drawing competitionopen to all artists.We invite all artists interested to send us digital images oftheir drawings or drawing projects. A jury composed of theEditors of ArtSEEN journal, and an external curator,who will be named at a

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Stuart Urban and his cameraShort-term memory does not apply here – in Europe. Some of our parents, all of our grandparents have lived through a war, at times, both the First and Second World War.The streets we live in, the parks we walk through, the rivers we (maybe) swim in, the fields where our crops are grown have all seen human lives sacrificed.Driving through France down to Italy with Andrew

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So who said clichés were "only" clichés?I mean, the Swiss cows and all the rest? Like, it’s a cliché because there are no Swiss cows around?Just drive in "Oberzürich" (Zürich Oberland), and you’ll see eye to eye with the famous “clichés” – one of the sweetest ever!!!

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ArtSEEN journal issue 1 spring '06 is presented at Plasma in Florence, 13th April 2006Today is ArtSEEN journal official one year anniversary! We presented our issue 1, Spring '06, on the 13th April last year in Florence with a champagne party!This year, we upgraded our website to welcome ArtSEEN journal, issue 5, Spring '07, now in bookshops!Many thanks and congratulations to all our artists and

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ArtSEEN Journal's Winter STANDARD / PINK issue as SEEN at the PS Bookshop in New York.ArtSEEN Journal's Spring edition which is a twin to the Pink issue will be in print in less than a weekDER Standard that is...

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Presenting - ArtSEEN journal Spring '07issue 5 Year 2Well, the pre-printing time is always a very busy period – which accounts for the silence on the blog. It’s the weeks that see us translating articles; chasing galleries for images; passing the translations to our precious Editorial Consultants who work on them further; doing the lay-out.Thus, ArtSEEN Spring ’07 – issue 5, which is our first

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"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."Jean Baudrillard(20 June 1929 - 6 March 2007)

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And one thing I have to say about White Cube is that they had the best exhibition on in London for late February/early March. It was simple and somewhat obvious if even strange. A three person show but somehow they made it work. A painter, an artist who did big prints that were photocopied and blown up, and a video artist who took a lot of previously done film footage and put it all

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I found myself drawing tonight, and I would like to share a small part of the documentation of the process with you.This drawing was not intended to, but ended up following the lunar eclipse. It came to full darkness at 23.47, a few minutes after the moon did so too.The drawing was made by repeatedly writing “I Love You” within the round frame hanging on the wall in my studio.Once the full

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Hello from BarcelonaBCN gave me the best welcome, 20 degrees, the jacket was useless!!!!lot's of hugs and kisses, both cousins look great, we went out forTapas and ¨cañas¨ a lot to say and update, news from them, from me etc... ok, too much wine and a long night, i ended up singing with Juana ¨vallenatos¨until 5 a.m!!!!The usual boring me, woke up at 9 am I'm too much a morning person, can't do

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Chapter I: "How to be a succesfull artist"I found the rules G&G wrotte for sculptures:1. Essere sempre eleganti, ben azzimati, rilassati amichevoli, cortesi e pienamente padroni di sè2. Fare in modo che tutti credamo in te e paghino caro questo privilegio3. Non giudicare, discuttere o criticare mai, ma restare sempre impertubabili, rispettosi e sereni.Specially love the second one...Chapter II: "

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Hello DearsRome was very interesting... i got there at 11 am went to Colosseo, walked to go to my first gallery in the list, AJ i missed you not only for the day also because you know me and directions, I'm terribly disorientated but i got there anyways, asked a few romans, (don't you think they are simply more gentle than florentines?) the gallery is closed on saturdays, shit, i thought is

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"Little Bo Peep" Xu BingFirst ImpressiONsby Clara GaleazziOK... where to start - seeing we’re talking about impressions, why not start with them?!?It seems almost pointless to say, that as "human beings" every one of us creates an idea of their own, in an almost spontaneous way, a priori, often without really having full knowledge of that what we’re going to "judge." All this is inevitable,

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a smile from the Far Side...Hello, from the world of those who finally succumb to the flu.The flu is a very interesting space to be in: it stops you from your usual activities, as it holds you firmly in it’s grasp, forcing you to be in the moment, count all the pains in your body, and observe the wall. You realise you have a head,

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Interview in the t.v program "mujeres"Just came back from the Mexican experience. I gave a lecture on Installation and Performance Art at the Latinamerican University in Q.Roo, it was full of students, teachers and a few artists, chairs weren't enough... after the first two nervous sentences I got into the atmosphere, I could feel the attention, for about an hour people stayed concentrated on my

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You know the story of Alice in Wonderland.The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are doing. Running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.U. G. KrishnamurtiThe fact that few people are given a chance on a sliver plate has brought me in my life to make that chance happen by myself: from curating, to running a gallery, to

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"Scarecrow and the Pig" (2005)Paula RegoPaula, can we begin by talking about when your work first came to broad public attention in Britain, at the beginning of the 1980s? That must’ve a very interesting time to be a figurative painter.Yes, nowadays you can do a lot of different things, but then it was a question of what was in fashion, really. The studios in London were full of people doing huge

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Vorbereitungsarbeiten für den Aue-Pavillon Foto: Heiko Meyer© documenta GmbHFrom the Documenta 12 Press Room:Crystal Palace for documenta 12 Begins to Take ShapePreparatory work on the exhibition architecture entered a new phase today: the Crystal Palace, the planned temporary exhibition building for documenta 12, is beginning to take shape. Preliminary work for the foundations began this

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A visit to the Pecci Museum in prato to check out the retrospective of David Tremlett Always on the SEEN!

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Tomorrow I'll be getting to Cancun at 15:00 hours, I was invited by Ms Matty Roca, the Head of the Ministry for the Arts and Culture in Q.Roo, other than making a show there I'll be giving a conference in Performance and Installation Art at the University. I've prepared my self enough but still feel a bit "nervous" but at the same time happy to share knowledge. (believe me it wasn't easy to

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The cat has been left in AJ’s care for three weeks, while I was away visiting my family over the holidays. The cat is very attached to his family too. Which explains why he was stubbornly sitting on the mouse tonight, making computer work rather difficult!Welcome to the second year of ArtSEEN journal! Work starts tomorrow, with reading all the emails that have come in, in the past weeks!All news

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From the 15th of November to the 31st of December 2006 there were 58 Plus exhibitions in the Italian capital. What is different in italy and specifically in Rome are the links that are created through people at varying levels and with a variety of jobs redefining just what it means to make contemporary art in this historic city In any case I invite you to go and have a look at all the new art

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Wishing all of you a fantastic 2007 from everyone at ArtSEEN Journal

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London bridge is fogging downfogging downfogging downLondon bridge is fogging downMy Fair Lady! with love from C&J stuck at Heathrow, while trying to fly to Barcelona!!!

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ArtSEEN Wishes you Merry Christmas!!!Click on this for a soul-ful Christmas song. (Sound is required)http://www.thecompassgroup.biz/merryxmas.swf

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When Jacinto was a kid, his family would always travel to the coast of a country in Southamerica, where his uncle had a little house on the beach, a place that could hardly be found on a map. His family used to organize a party inviting a few neighbours around the night of the 24th, while the adults were out dancing and drinking rum, Jacinto used to sit down infront of the ocean waiting to see

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London TownC & J in London, Life can be very tiring sometimes while shopping in this great city!

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Ciccio & Jacinto sent a fax apologizing for yesterday they were buying Christmas presents in London and were too tired after walking around shops to writte to us.Today they are still buying gifts and will update us with more later tonight.

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This insert will be OPENED between 15.00 and 18.00 hours FST (Florence Standard Time, i.e. GMT- more or less.)

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The "smoking" fountain, Nuoro Ciccio & Jacinto have just come back from a week’s tour of Sardinia, the island that graces the Mediterranean, its high peaks reaching the blue skies. They travelled in the central region of Sardinia: the Barbagia.They met with friends there, shared conversation, and enjoyed the local food. Cicco adored the Bottarga, especially enjoying it the day it was served on

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The Villa Maria is composed of some of the most intriguing accessories found in the world. In order to find such obscure objects, Ciccio and jacinto must spend vast amounts of time in South America with a certain Architect who collects 'old junk' that naturally is re-cycled in their house. Here are some pics of the environment from which they often find some of those rare items.

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aerobics roomIn the mid 1980s before Ciccio and Jacinto became what we know them as today, glam rock and aerobics dominated the planet. In those happy years before grunge stole the show and when people actually cured depression by watching David Lee Roth strut his stuff in a myriad of outrageous costums, Ciccio would often waltz around the streets of derelict towns in many places with his

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Ciccio's suggestion for today is a glass of wine!!! and more specifically Nero D'AvolaNero d’Avola is a bluish-purple grape with a delightfully ripe fruit flavor and earthy after-tones. Ciccio advises the Duca Enrico, he says : “It is a stunning example of the quality of wine that can come from this grape; it has a deep garnet colour with ruby highlights, and what’s more, all the grapes for this

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C&J Collection-SicilyBaily Smyth-Browne b.1928 – d.1959An early informal painting 6.5ft x 4.9ftOil on Canvas“Abstract 74” Rebecca Höffensteinb.1968“Kairn”Installation at the Villa Maria, Sicily2x2x8 metres

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Jacinto married young to his childhood sweetheart. Both the families of the couple knew each other well and the marriage was almost a "taken for granted". And So they married caring very much for each other, but more like brother and sister than two people who are head over heals in love. But life goes on and eventually they had two kids, a pleaseant marriage, and were friends; and as friends one

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Interior, Villa Maria It started with an abandoned warehouse but Jacinto thought that was too cliché and foresaw that within 6 years everyone would be using warehouses and throwing stuff in them and calling it art. Hey, it's in a warehouse man! It's art and contemporary too! So he decided to buy a villa instead. Actually it was a little shack but he pulled some 'strings' and turned the thing into

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A collectors item - vintage Barbie Ever since he was a little boy, Ciccio adored dolls. His fascination with dolls dates to his earliest memories, when he used to sneak into his sisters room to play with her dolls, and often had the house cleaner find him standing with his little feet on a chair, his nose stuck to the vitrine where his mother kept her “untouchable” collection: dolls in national

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Blood Oranges for a saladCiccio, on the other hand, wishes us to post one of his favourite Sicilian recipes, so that his own talent doesn’t get outshined by Jacintos writing. Here’s one he recommends for those “piccanti” summer nights! he says it works in witner too, if you're in a warm place!Sicilian Blood Orange Salad1 small to medium organic red onion, sliced into thin ringsIceWater3 to 4

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Tan lines...Extract from Jacinto's 1993 masterpiece... sweaty “Rio kNIGHTS” in two partsFelipe: Hey Paco you said you'd never say you told Alex about the gun under the kitchen sink!Paco: Well, Felipe if you hadn't spilled that ice cream all over the couch last night I would have gone to the police instead.Felipe: What!Paco: Yeah!!!!Felipe: What !?Paco: Look, all I want is some love and affection

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ArtSEENs ready for postingAlthough ArtSEEN is available in bookshops in Italy, in London, and now in New York, every new edition also gets sent to artists, galleries, museums all round the world!Hundreds of ArtSEEN journals, accompanied by ArtSEEN PLUSES are (tomorrow) travelling to addresses in Italy, in the UK, in the USA, in China, in Iceland, in France, in Austria, in Mexico, and more! That’

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Proposal photo for the publication poster for "Pink Feather Boas" In the wake of his dear mother, Jacinto exercises the “art” of play-writing. He doesn’t have much success, although he tries to render scenes of everyday life more “vibrant.” He says: “Life is so often so banal, we need a bit of the shazam to make us laugh. Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles! Make the unthinkable come true!”Jacinto has

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Mrs. Jacinto Alfonso Segundo de Morales Ricci – Maria JoseA Poem by Jacintos mother, Maria Jose...Una nota en el silencioHe dejado sobre mi pasado las cènizas de un futuro cada vez màs cercano…Temo que se dibujen en mi rostro las lineas de la tristeza y no los testigos de mis sonrisas,temo los años que pesan sobre mi cadera,temo la sombra que se encurva…temo las palabras que empiezo a olvidar,

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On the 5th December 2005, ArtSEEN journal Pilot, issue 0, was delivered into our hands – fresh from the printers.On the 5th December 2006, ArtSEEN journal Winter ’07, issue 4, was delivered into our hands – fresh from the printers.So, we celebrated (as if we need an excuse!) 1,2,3... GO! - Sandra, G, and AJ trumpet “Happy Birthday to You” to ArtSEEN S, G, and AJ blow out the candle for ArtSEEN

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'Gabriel Maria Jose Sanchez Ignacio Federico Montoya –Gazza’Presenting Gabriel Maria Jose Sanchez Ignacio Federico Montoya - Gazza for short.You might be asking your selves why the poodle has this name, well Gabriel because Ciccio & Jacinto found out that both their great grand fathers were named Gabriel, Maria Jose for Jacinto’s deceased mother, Sanchez Ignacio was Ciccio’s Peruvian best friend

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Bugatti T59From first night in Paris where they had dinner at "Le Pavillon de la Grande Cascade," they both knew it was the first day of a life together, they didn't say anything to each other but they allowed it to be and happen.... that first night in Jacinto's rented apartmenent, before falling sleep, Ciccio said: We can buy a villa in Sicily or try to get a Châteaux in the south of France...

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Knight of Malta - Caravaggio Jacinto is Argentinean; he has two kids that live in Cordoba. Jacinto’s father was of Italian origin and he always had the dream to live in Italy, where he came for the first time in 1989 and met Ciccio.Jacinto was an able young lad. He was reared on Zorro and sword fighting in the old Argentinean tradition. At the age of 9 he had mastered everything about European

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Before becoming a world renowned six star chef (and meeting Jacinto) Ciccio's life wasn't so fantastic. For starters he started going bald at 15: something that permanently scared his ever so weak psyche. Thus, due to his pre-mature balding, he spent loads of time in the kitchen with his mom - a lovely woman who had loads of affairs with 'the hired help' - learning all the most intricate foods

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La Bella VeneziaCiccio&Jacinto first met in 1989, at the Venice Biennale of Cinema, both of them attracted by the special exhibition of Jean Cocteau’s work, in the Italian pavilion of the Giardini. Jacinto had just divorced, and was travelling in Italy from Argentina, as that was his dream: to visit Italy and its amazing beauty and art (his father was of Italian origin.) Ciccio on the other hand

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The Ciccio&Jacinto Advent Ball - December 1st 2006We have Godfathers. I mean, ArtSEEN Godfathers. Not in the classical sense, they didn’t give ArtSEEN it’s name, yet in a funny way, they’ve both supported us with their humour and encouragement daily, since we met them, per chance, right at the beginning of the ArtSEEN. Sandra, AJ, and I were having dinner at Poldo's (Ristorante Buca Poldo in

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ArtSEEN journal is a result of collaboration between many people. We all work on a voluntary basis, meaning, we don’t get paid for the work we do for ArtSEEN (all of our finances are employed for the printing costs, which doesn’t leave much left over for salaries or any extra costs.) As the Editor Team, we are very grateful therefore to the people who support the ArtSEEN project, who spend their

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"It is very sad to hear about the child who was killed. It’s very awful as well. It’s very awful how humanity, with this fabulous potential to create, chooses to destroy. It is sometimes so easy to destroy. It is always very sad to me to hear this happen, to see it happen. And it makes me think we, as artists, as creative workers, have to work even more. As I know full well that our input can’t

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I woke up early this morning to go to Alessandro (The Printer's) place to make one last correction to ArtSEEN Journal's winter edition before it went to print. It is always nice to have an issue at the printer's and realize how many amazing people have contributed to it. So this blog is dedicated to all our art writers and contributors who have helped make ArtSEEN Journal absolutely fantastic - A

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Gordana Bezanov - 'G' - the EditorAndrew J Smaldone - 'AJ' - the Senior Editor Sandra Miranda P. - 'S' - the Managing EditorWelcome to behind the SEEN, ArtSEEN journals blog!ArtSEEN journal is now a year old. It is also composed of many people who work together to make it happen: all of us are artists.ArtSEEN journal aims in presenting artists words, thoughts, ideas about their own art, art they

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