Davide Vanacore

This is part of the first footage I did in a day with snow in the Cemetery of Farnham. I thought the snow could give a more romantic atmosphere to the cemetery, and it did.

Here are all the pictures that I took in Campus for the Archival Prospective project.  They are 18, I then selected just 15 to put in the journal for the resolved project.

Frances Stark is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose work centers on the use and meaning of language, and the translation of this process into the creative act She often works with carbon paper  to hand-trace letters, words, and sentences from classic works by Emily Dickinson , Goethe , Hnery Miller , Samuel Beckett , and others to explore the voices and interior states of writers.  She uses these hand-traced words, often in repetition, as visual motifs in drawings and mixed media works that reference a subject, mood, or another discipline such as music, architecture, or philosophy. The feature-length video work My Best Thing , stems from an anonymous chat site Stark encountered online. The dialogues between Stark and her chat partners are represented by generalized, cartoon avatars  that speak the chat transcripts.  The subject matter of these chats range from art and the creative process, to sex and anonymity. The video’s form and content show ...

Sarah Crowner is an American painter best known for her geometric abstrations  that evoke the style of hard-edge painting  of the 1950s and 60s. Crowner creates paintings by sewing together angular pieces of already painted canvas and linen. This method emerged from her impatience with the medium. In an interview from an article from the  New York Observer , Crowner states that "sewing made sense at first because it was a way of cutting up, collaging, reorganizing and re-constructing in a practical way." She also creates small ceramic works in neutral color palettes and that have more organic shapes.       

Giorgio Morandi   was an Italian painter  and printmaker  who specialized in still life . His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes.   Throughout his career, Morandi concentrated almost exclusively on still lifes  and landscapes, except for a few self-portraits. With great sensitivity to tone, color, and compositional balance, he would depict the same familiar bottles and vases again and again in paintings notable for their simplicity of execution. A prolific painter, he completed some 1350 oil paintings. He also executed 133 etchings, a significant body of work in its own right, and his drawings and watercolors often approach abstraction in their economy of means. He explained: "What interests me most is expressing what’s in nature, in the visible world, that is".  

Bruno Munari  contributed fundamentals to various fields of visual arts , including painting, sculpture, film, industrial design , and graphic design , in modernism , futurism , and concrete art , and in non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method , movement, tectile learning  and creativity. Bruno Munari joined the 'Second' Italian Futurist movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti  in the late 1920s. During this period, Munari contributed collages to Italian magazines, some of them highly propagandist, and created sculptural works which would unfold in the coming decades including his useless machines, and abstract-geometrical works. Munari was also a significant contributor in the field of children's books and toys, later in his life, though he had been producing books for children since the 1930s. He used textured, tactile surfaces and cut-outs to create books that teach about touch, movement, and...

Robert Simthson was an American artisit who presented sculpture and land art mainly using the medium of photography. He initially defined himself as a painter regarding his early work. From 1964, he became a proponent of the emerging 'minimalist' movement. Smithson's interest in 'temporal' is explored through the rediscovery of the idea of 'picturesque' and he  recovers the issues of 'site specificity' and' human intervention' as dialectic landscape layers, experiential multiplicity, and the values of deformations manifest in the picturesque landscape. By re-interpreting and re-evaluating anti-aesthetic and anti-formalist logic, Smithson was able to broaden the temporal and intellectual context for his own work, and to offer renewed meaning for Central Park as an important work of modern art   and landscape architecture. Spiral Jetty  is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970, considered to be his central and most notable work...