Gemma Martino e Hubert Godard
2B Media

Bruno Di Marino
Johan & Levi editore

Che cos'è la pornografia? Un mero fenomeno sociologico o addirittura una categoria estetica? E soprattutto: com'è cambiata la rappresentazione pornografica negli ultimi anni con l'evoluzione dei media? Con un ampio saggio che abbraccia vari ambiti della realtà contemporanea - dalla fotografia alla televisione, dalle arti visive al cinema, dalle performance al web -, Bruno Di Marino indaga le molteplici sfaccettature della scrittura dell'osceno: un'approfondita disamina storico-critica dall' "Origine du monde" ci porta, attraverso gli oggetti di Duchamp, le "stagioni" di Man Ray e le performance erotico-politiche, fin dietro le quinte del porno con le fotografie di Sultan e Greenfield-Sanders; approdiamo, quindi, al grande schermo con il fortunato connubio fra cinema sperimentale e mondo "X-Rated" nelle pellicole calde di maestri come Gioli e Warhol, con il "found-footage" pornografico e le nuove frontiere della videoarte e dei videoclip; infine, il decisivo passaggio dal privé alla rete, con il dischiudersi dell'universo infinito di YouPorn e la moltiplicazione di pratiche di scambio fra reale e immateriale sempre più ardite. Negli ultimi due decenni si è dunque assistito a un processo di normalizzazione e insieme spettacolarizzazione della pornografia che ha definitivamente violato il suo tabù, anche - anzi, soprattutto - per il pubblico femminile, provocando un aumento incontrollato della produzione amatoriale e, di conseguenza, una crisi dell'hard professionale.

Mixed media on paper. On the back the artist's stamp with the signature, the title (not deciphered) and the date of the work. Caccioni, an artist who was born, trained and still lives in Bologna, is one of the protagonists of a generation that has now reached a definitive linguistic maturation and occupies an important space within the contemporary artistic panorama. His research mainly uses unusual materials such as acetates, PVC and, more recently, scenic backdrops from nineteenth-century theatrical works, on which he intervenes by painting forms taken from a personal memory and from suggestions coming from different cultures and historical periods. A recurring element in Luca Caccioni's work is writing, a self-significant sign that designs the work and is capable of narrating thoughts; working by superposition, the images are constructed by addition or subtraction of color on the various supports. Work in frame.

Studio 1992

Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated lower, with title. On the back the artist's stamp with the signature, title and date of the work. Caccioni, an artist who was born, trained and still lives in Bologna, is one of the protagonists of a generation that has now reached a definitive linguistic maturation and occupies an important space within the contemporary artistic panorama. His research mainly uses unusual materials such as acetates, PVC and, more recently, scenic backdrops from nineteenth-century theatrical works, on which he intervenes by painting forms taken from a personal memory and from suggestions coming from different cultures and historical periods. A recurring element in Luca Caccioni's work is writing, a self-significant sign that designs the work and is capable of narrating thoughts; working by superposition, the images are constructed by addition or subtraction of color on the various supports. Work in frame.

Ranieri de' Calzabigi
CISU

s.a.
Ente turistico per i Grigioni

Paris 2012

Louis Vuitton Monogram Idylle Pegase 55 trolley. Pink-sepia monogram fabric, burgundy leather finishes, zip and golden metal inserts. Interior lined with burgundy lining, "Louis Vuitton Paris" leather label and Data Code label (SR0112). Supplied with protective cover; pair of padlocks and respective keys absent. The condition is very good, despite some very slight marks.

Bruno Pellegrino
LittleItaly

Nelle circa 1000 pagine dell'opera, il "meneghinologo" Bruno Pellegrino racconta le sue appassionate e appassionanti passeggiate per le contrade che si dipanano entro la simbolica cerchia dei Navigli. 6 volumi riccamente illustrati, che raccolgono tutto - ma proprio tutto! - ciò che per vestigia d'arte o reminiscenze storiche meriti di essere segnalato, con particolare attenzione per quei luoghi e monumenti meno importanti, che sono anche i meno conosciuti. Completa l'opera l'indice analitico della serie completa.

Untitled, 1961

Mixed media on paper and cardboard. Signed and dated '61 top right. The composition - because such are the works of the artist originally from Bari but lived in Paris - presents some objects from the world of toys (the two plastic bottles) assembled together with nails, painted tape, waxed paper, trimmings, on a based on paper and cardboard, to create an imaginative landscape, a sort of scenography for a childish world. The work is presented in a frame..

Nature's Poetry 1962

Mixed media, with metal applications on canvas. On the back there is the name of the artist, with the title and the date. James McClintock is an American artist who joined Post Painterly Abstraction, a movement that developed in America in the 60s and 70s which strongly claimed its descent from American Abstract Expressionism and the work of the action painters of the group by Pollock, cutting off all dependence on Europe starting in the 1940s. McClintock also worked in Europe, in particular in Florence where between 1961 and 1967 he worked in collaboration with the Galleria Numero di Fiamma Vigo, a non-conformist place created by the Argentine gallerist to present and promote innovative works. The work is presented in a frame.

XX Century

Column with plaster shelf depicting Venus de Milo decorated with mixed media in Pop Art style.

Glimpse of the Cloister of the Dome of Monreale

Mixed technique, with canvas, wooden panels, metal threads, small beads, etc. At the bottom center is the artist's name, unidentified. It is a three-dimensional and perspective reconstruction of the cloister of the Monreale Cathedral, with the fountain in the foreground. The work is presented in a display case with a gilded frame from the early 1900s.

Sedir
Fratelli Bocca editori

Oil on plywood

Charles Moody (1979), oil on plywood. Signed on the back. The work was exhibited at the solo exhibition "Borderland" at the Gallery 8 in Milan Corso Venezia, as evidenced by the paper to the back lable. Charles Moody graduated in 2003 at the Art Institute of Boston and, after three years in Milan, chooses to live in New York. In his art the focus at trial (conceptual art, process art) rather than to the image content and it is in this scrap that painting is at its best. An art that was created by the approval of television images (almost never films) and in particular from popular soap operas. Moody's work goes beyond the mass media image by customizing the selection for special images that, in his view, offer a potential narrative; are images of transition, moments of transition from one scene to the next. The artist uses a manual oil painting to reproduce the low quality of the tv picture extolling the "blurring" of blur. We are facing a loss of spatial dimension, in a temporality confused-diffuse-intangible which is difficult to recognize the boundaries ("Borderland"). In these perceptual distortions, in which time dilates expands, each painting represents a "indiscernibilità" in which the recognition of the object that takes second place. The time of Moody is neither Chronicle nor history but suspension. (From "Charles Moody, Borderland", curated by Gianni Romano, exhibition catalogue, CorsoVeneziaOtto, November-December 2009)

Composition on 4 Panels, 1978

Mixed media on canvas applied to wooden panels, showing a sequence. On the lower right the artist's initials GB and the numbering of the panels; on the verso of each panel is the signature in full, with the date and the following sequential titles: 'By Bosch', 'Declination of an Owl', 'Transcription' and 'Disappearance for Coquetry'. Gabriella Benedini has defined her as an artist as 'a nomad in search of the profound meaning of things'. Although attracted and interested first by abstract-informal painting, then by Existential Realism and then by the New Figuration, Gabriella Benedini proceeds on a strictly personal quest that cannot be assimilated into any specific current. The entire 1970s were mainly marked by pictorial works that reflected literary cues filtered through her need for growth and confrontation. Then, through her passion for Alchemy, Benedini began to transform anything that came her way into works of art; shells, pages of old books, bottles, everything is combined into a harmonious whole that recalls spaces. Her works therefore become mainly three-dimensional, either to hang on the wall, or they are sculptures, even large ones. The four panels are presented here in a single frame.

Size 42

Sepia brown pure cashmere men's coat. The conditions are really good; the line is soft 80s and fits the men's size 50/52 (length 125 cm, waist 135 cm).

Plato and Aristotle

Mixed media on canvas. Signature, title, date and dedication on the reverse. Paolo Baratella, a recently deceased artist from Ferrara, developed his art by composing vast pictorial cycles inspired by contemporary subjects; we therefore have series of works by him gathered under significant titles. From the mid-1980s and into the 2000s, his scenographic apparatuses became more enriched with cultural, pictorial and literal iconographic references. In particular, Baratella pays greater attention to the iconography of art, philosophy and history. In this work the artist presents the portraits of the two great Greek philosophers (taken from their traditional classical depictions) and shades them in a frame of pink-blue colours. The two individual canvases are placed side by side inside a worked wooden frame, on whose two horizontal crosspieces the words "Timaeus" a work written by Plato, and "Ethics", a recurring theme of Aristotelian philosophy, are engraved.

Enzo Braschi
U. Mursia editore

Arnaldo Pomodoro
Franco Maria Ricci

Maurizio Eliseo, Paolo Piccione
Tormena editore