7420
No.7
Autumn Equinox 2023
2023 / 126 PAGES.
Language: English, Italian
This issue, which we dedicate to Italo Calvino on the centennial of his birth, is pervaded with a fairytale atmosphere in his honor: it is spangled with journeys to distant and noble lands and evocative country attics, a great poet’s last love and the magical glitter of molten glass, the alchemistic enigmas of a mysterious painter and the leering dances of mocking skeletons, hidden in a tucked-away rural church. To complete our offering, we bring you a few cunning tricks of the trade of the most successful art dealers and a new episode of the art-historical adventures of Mr. PA, as narrated by the Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk.
HORS D'ŒUVRE
“Mr. PA Goes to the Museum” – Hidden Cards
by Orhan Pamuk
“Auctions” – The Art of Raising the Level
by Simone Facchinetti
“Ephemera” – Image and Imagination
text (1985) by Italo Calvino
Transpacific Overture
by Hwee Lie Bléhaut, Rodrigo Rivero Lake
Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.
THE GLANCE OF THE LORD
by Vincenzo Patanè
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
DARING GEOMETRIES IN MURANO
by Marino Barovier
photography by Elizabeth Lamark
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
ALCHEMY AND TRANSFIGURATION
by Fabio Benzi and Caterina Napoleone
photography by Riccardo Ragazzi
The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.
THE MUSEUM OF WORKS AND DAYS
text (1991) by Roberto Tassi
photography by Mauro Davoli
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
DANSE MACABRE
by Latica Tomašić Kickert
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the church of St. Mary of the Rocks in Beram and in the church of the Holy Trinity in Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
“Mr. PA Goes to the Museum” – Hidden Cards
by Orhan Pamuk
“Auctions” – The Art of Raising the Level
by Simone Facchinetti
“Ephemera” – Image and Imagination
text (1985) by Italo Calvino
Transpacific Overture
by Hwee Lie Bléhaut, Rodrigo Rivero Lake
Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.
THE GLANCE OF THE LORD
by Vincenzo Patanè
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
DARING GEOMETRIES IN MURANO
by Marino Barovier
photography by Elizabeth Lamark
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
ALCHEMY AND TRANSFIGURATION
by Fabio Benzi and Caterina Napoleone
photography by Riccardo Ragazzi
The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.
THE MUSEUM OF WORKS AND DAYS
text (1991) by Roberto Tassi
photography by Mauro Davoli
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
DANSE MACABRE
by Latica Tomašić Kickert
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the church of St. Mary of the Rocks in Beram and in the church of the Holy Trinity in Hrastovlje (Slovenia).