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April 30th, 2013
Published in Culture, Primo Piano
by Nadesha Mijoba
The “Italian Vibrations” show injects a paradigm shift to the New London, Connecticut environment, arriving at the cutting-edge space of Provenance Center. Walking into this gallery one is confronted by a startling diversity of artistic expression. Architect and designer, Antonio Pio Saracino, brings us his “Star Chairs”, recently premiered in Dubai’s annual design expo [...]
January 19th, 2012
Published in Culture, Primo Piano
by Anna Bulzomi
As India’s rapid economic ascent continues to thrive, a certain Indian quality that has little to do with its economy or its politics is perceived as increasingly fascinating. India epitomizes a conundrum of opposites: the millenary civilization and the developing society, a strong traditional identity and a rush toward the future, wild countryside and bursting megalopolis. In the past two [...]
December 21st, 2011
Published in Politics, Primo Piano
by Eleonora Corsini
The word ‘slavery’ may make us think about past history or distant societies, but the contemporary realities are little different. When asked by a researcher working on the subject, Xavier, 44, a modern day slave in Amazonia, Brazil reported: “They thrashed me with a whip. I treated the cuts with oil from a tree. But when the overseer saw that they were healing, he threw [...]
May 30th, 2011
Published in Primo Piano, Society
by Sarah Tulivu
There was a time the only foreigners you could see in Nepal were those travelers with the guts to cross the world by land. When airfares were unaffordable and the route still hazardous and unknown, the first tourists of Nepal were souls on a journey. Tired of western materialism, conformity and consumerism, they packed their rucksacks, took the little money they had and hit the road [...]
April 19th, 2011
Published in Politics, Primo Piano
by Filippo Spreafico
Very few movies deserved the attention of the Italian audience-electorate once the topic dealt with the ‘one and many’ Silvio Berlusconi. I am not blaming Sabina Guzzanti’s Dracula and Erik Gandini’s Videocracy (both 2009) to have lacked accuracy or mislead the audience. I do blame them of having offered Italians a reality-to-go by holding the audience hand to hand towards the “communist” (in [...]
February 21st, 2011
Published in Blog, Primo Piano
by Eleonora Corsini
The boat could go no further as the water grew too shallow. But we were not far from the pristine island I wanted to reach, so I jumped into the river, walking with the water up to my belly bottom, and made my way to the islet. Once there, I felt as though I was the first person to discover it – a modern day Robinson Crusoe. In my excitement I waved to the others and went running all over [...]
January 26th, 2010
Published in Attualità, Portraits, Primo Piano
by Laurence Yème
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