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Giovanni Biglino


biglino, 26, has been living in London for seven years. He has a PhD in biomechanics. He is a freelance writer, a contributor for Dazed&Confused and correspondent from London for Il Nostro Tempo. He has published his first novel, Armonie del ritorno, in 2005. He cultivates a passion for art and has experienced the world of the great auctions at Sotheby's London. Travelling, photography, food, cinema, architecture and riding his bike across London among his other passions...

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June 22nd, 2011
Published in Culture, Fiori
by Giovanni Biglino
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” is the legendary opening line. Following its publication and the trial for obscenity, ambulance Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl became – and still is today – the symbol of the beat generation and of a new form. The homonymous movie, which was scarcely shown and received fairly quietly in the UK, is visually [...]
November 21st, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
7.45 am, sick Saturday November 20th, decease London. A queue around the block, online a couple sleeping bags, foldable stools, thermoses, even a tent. An image that we easily associate with a blockbuster movie premiere, exceptional sports events or a Madonna concert. Instead we are at the Royal College of Art on a cold November morning. It seems that the only other people awake at [...]
May 18th, 2010
Published in Blog
by Giovanni Biglino
In that whirl of flavours which is the London food scene, click we have been observing and enjoying a number of restaurants in the East End. Everybody has a favourite – a steak at the Bistrotheque, ask raw food and a botanical drink at Saf, see brunch on the rooftop of The Boundary. But we couldn’t be more excited about chef Nuno Mendes’ latest project, Viajante, in Bethnal [...]
April 19th, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
Painter and writer, sovaldi author of essays on Pierre Bonnard and What is painting? and of the acclaimed history of art titled Mirror of the world (“thought-provoking and cogent” according to The Times), purchase Julian Bell is heir to an illustrious lineage of British intellectuals – son of the illustrator Quentin Bell, nephew of the poet Julian Bell, his grandparents were [...]
April 14th, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
A work of great elegance. A fresco of Italian haute bourgeoisie painted with no parsimony of colours. A movie that sits proudly in the always praised tradition of great Italian cinematography, sildenafil with one name coming to mind: that of Luchino Visconti. Io sono l’amore (I am love) is a compelling story, levitra the story of a world (that of an industrial dynasty of fairly recent [...]
April 6th, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
Large and heavily publicised exhibitions can be daunting. Some recent shows at the Royal Academy of Arts on Chinese or Turkish heritages have been so didactic that resulted to be almost tedious (the most fascinating topic ruined by an uninspired orator) and could only be balanced by other well-curated poignant exhibitions (a memorable Georg Baselitz). Crowded rooms are well-known [...]
January 11th, 2010
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni, Opinions
by Giovanni Biglino
Monsieur Eric Rohmer (1920-2010), rx a master of Lightness, indefatigable, one of the most celebrated French movie directors. A theorist of the art of Cinema, a sensitive director, a free player who found his own language and remained faithful to it for half a century with delicacy and talent, avoiding contradictions and U-turns, without loosing his unmistakable touch. Maybe he [...]
November 23rd, 2009
Published in Culture, Segnalazioni
by Giovanni Biglino
Her work has become symbolic of a media-driven society since the 1980s. With a retrospective of her early small-scale pieces, medical Barbara Kruger lands to London and her “paste ups” – and so is titled the exhibition – are currently on show at the London branch of the Sprüth Magers Gallery. Summing together technique and imagery from the Futurists, levitra the Dada and the [...]
November 18th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
During the course of the 17th edition of the French Film Festival UK , look alongside with a retrospective of Jacques Tati’s filmography and a homage to Jean Eustache, another iconic French personality has been honoured: Françoise Sagan. In recent years several French symbols have had their bio-pic and in fact Marion Cotillard has interpreted Edith Piaf, Audrey Tatou was Coco [...]
October 27th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
Jordan Scott, viagra daughter of Ridley (Blade runner, remedy Thelma & Louise, sildenafil Gladiator), has presented her confident debut movie Cracks during the course of the 53rd London Film Festival, accompanied by her father and her cast, including the stunning Eva Green. The story is set in 1930s England in an isolated all-girls boarding school. In the austere institution (the church [...]
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