Honey in the coffee

Busy time for London based artist Othello De'Souza-Hartley! His latest solo show closed two weeks ago in London and now a solo show is opening in Rome during Rome Art Week. On Tuesday 23rd October Own Narrative a series of polaroids will be on show inside the changing rooms of Campo XXV Aprile (football pitch) in Pietralata, Rome. Campo Sportivo XXV Aprile dal 23 al 27 ottobre 2018 Own Narrative Mostra di Othello De’Souza-Hartley a cura di Alessandra Migani Opening: martedì 23 ottobre ore 18.30 L’Arte di Othello De’Souza-Hartley in mostra a Pietralata  per la Rome Art Week Il Campo Sportivo XXV Aprile torna ad aprire le porte all’arte e alla condivisione con una mostra del fotografo, artista visivo e performer londinese, che sarà presente per l’inaugurazione. Martedì 23 ottobre, alle 18.30, nell’ambito della Rome Art Week, inaugura, presso il Campo Sportivo XXV Aprile a Pietralata, la mostra personale dal titolo Own Narrative del ...

"We're going to Mars! With a spicegirl, two cats and a missionary". We are in Zambia, newly independent in 1964. Edward Makuka Nkoloso, a school teacher, unveils his most secret ambition through a newspaper's article: he wants to take Zambia to conquer the space at the same strength of US and Soviet Union. Unfortunately Nkoloso' space program failed to receive financial aid and never "blasted-off"!! 50 years later, Spanish photographer  Cristina De Middel , while searching for "impossible stories" on the net to find a good idea for a new project, came across this news.    Afronauts , De Middel's amazing photo project and self published book, was born after this impossible dream.   I caught images of this project flipping the pages of RearViewMirror magazine. The project was pointed to me by an artist friend who saw it at Fotografia Europea . Afronauts has been exhibited worldwide in New York, London, Lagos, Rome amon...

Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation, with the support of Amana, are announcing the winner of this year PhotoBook of the Year Award: Rosângela Rennó An interior spread from A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23] , by Rosângela Rennó. Digital reproductions by Thiago Barros. Photographer: Rosângela Rennó Publisher: RR Edições, Rio de Janeiro Julien Frydman notes that this volume, “with its emphasis on disappearance, is a metaphor for photography as a whole.” To make this book, which is part of a trilogy, Rennó meticulously photographed the material found in twenty-seven boxes the majority of whose contents have been slowly and methodically stolen from the General Archive of the City of in Rio de Janeiro. The project focus in particular on the disappearance of the images of Augusto Malta and his sons, who worked for the city for over fifty years and whose original prints have recently risen in market value. Rennó’s images are of abandoned album covers...

Tonight I was just captured by this amazing cafe' in New York. Designed by Front Studio Architects , here images of beautiful McNally Jackson Books Café .  The flying books and the 'printed pages' wall are a good way to look above in search of the next good book to read or the pleasure to find a sentence on the wall, just right for the day.    photos by Maggie Soladay Photography 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette and Mulberry) New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160

  New entry amongst the national pavilions at the coming Venice Biennale is the Pavilion of the Republic of Angola. Luanda, Encyclopedic City presents works of young artist Edson Chagas . Curated by  Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Pansera (Beyond Entropy Ltd) As the press release states: The Encyclopedic Palace has been given an impossible task: no building can contain a universal multiplicity of spaces, possibilities, and objects. When a building tends towards the encyclopedic, it becomes a city. The city includes multiple conditions in the coherence of form— even though this is an urban, conflict-ridden form. Edson Chagas focuses on the complexity of Angola’s capital, Luanda, which derives from the presence of unpredictable spaces and the coexistence of irreconcilable programs: city and country, infrastructure and habitations, garbage tips and public spaces. Luanda is an encyclopedic city. How can the knowledge of a city be organized through the taxon...

"Il Delta dei Veleni", oil exploitation in Nigeria. A photo exhibition and a documentary by Luca Tommasini Only few days left to visit the photo exhibition by Luca Tommasini "Il Delta dei Veleni" at WSP Photography in San Paolo area, in Rome. I visited the exhibition the day of the opening, Wednesday 9th of May.  The exhibition was completed by the projection of the documentary "Oil for nothing" by Tommasini (produced by CRBM) and a talk with Godwin Uyi Ojo , Director and co-founder of Environmental Rights Action,  Elena Gerebizza  e  Luca Manes  di  CRBM . © Luca Tommasini – Il delta dei veleni As the title might suggest the exhibition and documentary are centred on the responsibilities of national and international oil companies in the petrol exploitation on the Niger Delta in Nigeria.   The opening day was a special occasion to hear stories from Godwin Uyi Ojo who saw his land changing. The pollution ...