john stezaker

On sunday I went to the Whitechapel Gallery to see the exhibition from british artist John Stezaker.
I liked so much,
i didn't know him before but I was mesmerized by
his surrealistic manipulation of icon and landscapes images.

From the exhibition catalogue:

"British artist John Stezaker is fascinated by the lure of images. Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images.

This first major exhibition of John Stezaker offers a chance to see work by an artist whose subject is the power in the act of looking itself. With over 90 works from the 1970s to today, the artist reveals the subversive force of images, reflecting on how visual language can create new meaning."

emerald uhhh

ok,
the idea was
"uooo let's dye JUST the roots in emerald green, so I can have Tie-dye hair, green and pink!"

but when we washed away the colour it took 10 seconds to it to dye all of my head.
Immediately

I don't know why, but

Pink
rest in peace


we'll see what will happen when i'll wash them again.

noone wants to talk with you

1000 friends should make you feel less lonely?

sun set

ooops

FIGHT!FIGHT!FIGHT! last night at Hoxton Pony.
I don't know why but I saw blood on a guy's face.
lots of blood.

the three of us

M'hai detto: ti amo.
Ti dissi: aspetta.
Stavo per dirti: eccomi.
Tu m'hai detto: vattene.


Soffri? E invece io non soffro più.
Non bisogna soffrire tutti e due insieme:
quando smetterai tu, comincerò io.


Lei ha conosciuto poche donne,
io ho conosciuto molti uomini:
si farà una media,
così potremo formare una discreta coppia.


La felicità si racconta male perché non ha parole,
ma si consuma e nessuno se ne accorge.

cuore di mamma

i wanna be a star

Uma Thurman (so young and already stunning)

Pam Grier (coolest hairstyle ever)

Jay-z (love the face expression)

ok, I really could waste hours on website like celebrity school pics,
it's just so useless and morbidly curious to look at people's picture from the past.

Stalker that I am

amore fa rima con fiore

it's like a forest of blossoms, and flowers, and leaves
growing in my chest
when i think of you

è che quando ti penso
sbocciano le rose
le sento germogliare lì, nell'ombelico
e poi su, s'arrampicano sulle costole, attorcigliano, e qualche foglia
e dal verde dei rovi s'apron mille forme, cento colori

qui, nel mezzo

tata naka presentation

some other pictures from the TATA NAKA presentation.

faces-s-s

some faces from the TATA.NAKA a/w 2011/2012 presentation
for which I worked today during London Fashion Week, at Somerset House.

KOKI

roba per gente positiva!

koki è il moroso di una mia amica che, mannaggia a lei,
mi ha fatto appassionare alla scena rap italiana,
e mi ha fatto innamorare di Dargen d'Amico.

Anyway Koki vive a Roma e fa il rapper-architetto,
clicca qui per ascoltare il suo nuovo singolo,
di cui ha curato rime, beat e illustrazioni

UAUU

days i miss home

le canzoni le scrivi per gli altri
e io che penso sempre siano per me.
però se canti che ti piace come lei curva le dita,
quando è confusa,
è di me che stiamo parlando?
io non so scrivere in rima
le frasi diventano filastrocche, pensierini

ma allora come faccio

vorrei anchio mettere in un disco
sillabe e battiti che capiamo solo io e te,
ma chi ascolta di là può pensare " questo è per me"
mentre noi continuiamo a parlare di noi, per noi, per me, per te.

valentine's day

this is what we did to celebrate valentine's day,
in the absence of a formal partner
we tried to invent love
with fantasy and improvised outfits.

maybe it was just an excuse to go out for dinner

icons of my imagination

I have an obsession with sacred art,
icons of saints, gods and mythology.

I know that every church/cathedral/abbey I visit abroad always seems boring,
this is probably what it happens when you are born and raised in Italy, I supposed.
But churches in the North of Europe have great stained glasses, which I love so much.
I love the bright colour and the light reflections on the floors,
and those ways to capture a scene with a timeless stillness,
fixing a moment of emotional or narrative climax,
these images become like a pop image that you might find on a poster,
or a snapshot of a music video.

this image has been taken at Victoria&Albert musuem, though.
Which is a magic and HUGE place to visit. Loved it.

the year of the rabbit

on the 3rd of February London Chinatown (Leicester, Trafalgar, Shaftesbury Ave.) celabrated the Chinese New Year.
It was a complete mess, a huge crowd of people moving in the same direction so slowly and so pushed, just to follow a cheesy chinese dragon.


Awful.

the royal borough of kensington and chelsea

Sunday we went to the Barbican to see the Japanese Fashion Exhibition.

I've never been at Barbican before, and I fell in love with this huge art space,

it's so big and so interesting, I felt relaxed and stimulated to discover new things.

By the Way I never liked japanese fashion designer, but I really enjoyed the exhibition

and I found touching the poetry and point of view of the work and life of Yojhi Jamamoto,

designer who I knew before but never deepen his work and language.