DDProject has arranged for the second time BLOOOMSDAY, the celebration of the irish writer James Joyce and his famous work Ulisses, the 16 june which is the day of the novel’s action. The 2010 Bloomsday is an exhibition in real expositive places. titled “Four artists tripping with Ulisses” with works by Ugo Pierri, Guglielmo Manenti, Aka B and Luigi Tolotti, who have interpreted in an original way Joyce’s work and figure.

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Ugo Pierri
“The flexible professor”

A desecrating visionary ability push down from the pedestal the Joyce-myth and turn it with a sharp irony in a bestiary of passions.

Guglielmo Manenti
“Epiphanies”

A vain wandering on the roads of exile take Bloom-Joyce through enigmatic visions, with a bright twilinght cromatism.

Aka B
“The 12 labours of Joyce”

A strong stroke draws Joyce in twelve thick and dark versions, which show a character worn out by creative torture, between seeing and blindness .

Luigi Tolotti
“J.J. 13 variantions on the theme”

An inlay of literary and biographic overlappings recreates in pop and surreal view the density of joycian world, with a graphic and cromatic taste.

Works
SERGIO BERTOLINI – ROBERTO MIGNANEGO
WORLD BEACH ULTIMATE CUP – WORLD FREESTYLE CHALLENGE
“There were colours everywhere, colours’ shreds everywhere. And frisbees. Everywhere.Next year theme for Paganello will be ‘Amarcord’.” [Lui Tasini]
Sergio Bertolini and Roberto Mignanego portray the “Paganello” world challenge 2010 in its 20th edition, in Rimini.

ALEX ROULETTE
PAINTING
From Ohio and living in Brooklyn, Roulette photographs, by accurately reproducing them in pictorial matter, scenes and needs of the “on the road” life of a young and lonely America, searching…

LUCA BIDOLI
WORKS
“In pursuit of a possible wonder. Of endurance against transience. Staying slantwise, sideways: it’s the oblique perspective from the bottom, the one of a pet, of who’s way down, the perspective chosen by Luca Bidoli. That four-legged surreality of clues, acid, with sharp edges, is contrived from voids. […] Becomes pictorial matter, fauve shading, outline of a slightest lapse. Passing”. [Simonetta Angelini]

JEONGMEE YOON
THE PINK AND BLUE PROJECT
The latter concept-reportage by JeongMee Yoon, photographer from South Korea, portrays infancy surrounded from its objects…
“The Pink and Blue Projects, explores the trends in cultural preferences and the differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from diverse cultures, ethnic groups as well as gender socialization and identity. Today, with the effects of advertising on consumer preferences, pink and blue customs are a worldwide standard.” [JeongMee Yoon]

ALE DI GANGI
IPHONEOGRAFIA
Photographer and videomaker from Florence, Ale Di Gangi is in constant oscillation between digital and analogic, due to a double fascination: he’s keen on vintage, on tour now with “the possible exhibition” (an original polaroid show), and he’s into tech’s vanguard, as for the iPhone-apped images displayed in this feature.

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Root Magazine

It adds a new spice in the design industry every next day. Designers feel so refreshing visiting the design magazines site. There are huge number of free Online magazines available.

Design is Kinky

These are the soft copies of magazines which either you can visit online or also can download for offline use.

Bak issue 15 cover

Take a special look to the article about Francoise Nielly, a french artist with wonderful paintings.

Bak 15 article - Francoise Nielly

Some words about Bak:

Bak Magazine is one of the greatest online visual arts magazines on the internet. It was January 2006 when Bak was founded by a Turkish graphic designer, Ozan Karakoc, in Istanbul. In a very short time after its release, Bak became very popular among the art lovers from all over the world.

As a bilingual magazine (English and Turkish), Bak is downloaded and read by hundreds of thousands of people from more than 140 countries. In October 2008, Bak moved to Los Angeles, California.

In Bak, there are tons of graphic design works, illustrations, paintings and photographs, submitted by its talented readers. One of the most important elements of Bak’s content is the special artist interviews. In 15 issues, Bak hosted 140 artists including world famous illustrators Gottfried Helnwein, Brad Holland, Jack Unruh, Kent Williams, Oleg Stavrowsky, giants of photography Jill Greenberg, Eugenio Recuenco, Phillip Toledano, Quentin Shih, Seb Janiak and popular graphic designers Vince Frost, Andrio Abero, Gerard Huerta, Si Scott and Tom Muller.

All issues of Bak Magazine can be downloaded on www.bakmagazine.com for free.

Its aim, born from a precise editorial choice, is collecting and exhibiting the work of visual artists in a pure form. Presenting it simply as data itself: no artist bio, no critical analysis of the works, no extra info that could in any way distract from the innediate impact the work has on the watcher.

DAYDREAMING MAGAZINE November 2009 ONLINE

“RAPTUROUS NATURE”
The quarrel between man, nature and art, Unavoidable down the centuries, is a matter worthy an endless soap-opera. For or against, willing or not, the artist has always brood in his own shadow over the lunatic terror for the fact that his creation wouldn’t have bear the comparison with Mother Earth. Many took their distance, other ridiscover her right now, some did never abandon her. The confrontation’s just begun…

Inside:

Nanni Spano (Metamorphosis):
High definition and macro modality investigating on details and texture of algas, of cortex, on stones and leaves, have unattendedly penetrated from other image-worlds with a violent meanwhile classical synthesis. While we’re expecting the image to be clear and still like crystal, meeting our visual pleasure, the artist contaminates and melts its elements and sense, slipping in the disquiet for an impossible unalterability- (G. Carbi)

Dan May (Illustrations):
A fairy Arcadia is being illustrated, populated with Beauty-nymphs and Beast-satyrs, fainting infancy and insects. Melancholic poetry enlighted masterfully from the inside.

Heiko Muller (Drawing/Mixed Media/Oil):
Through an unconventional use of stylistic sovrapposition, the artist lets us attend a very interesting mediation between the expressive medium and the natural datum, between illustration and photography, between Pop echoes and Action paintings, breathing life into a powerful and immediate iconography confronting nature and history.

Scott G.Brooks (Painting):
Here’s the umpteenth violence to the american dream, far from being gratuitous, together with the umpteenth homage to renaissance art, far from being imitation. Deformities legitimates themselves with confident looks of disquieting wellbeing; distortion meets smiling our eye. What if the world was this?

De Becker ( Into the wild):
The transposition of the urban subject in the natural datum, fundamental intuition, provokes a grotesque disorientation, but not only… the gamut of sensations provided by these images indicates a relational investigation between man and nature that is far from being unveiled.