17 November 2020
“As the readership swells and the need for communicative art-writing skyrockets, we notice that – although some art-texts are well-informed, imaginatively written, and genuinely illuminating – much contemporary art-writing remains barely comprehensible”, writes Gilda Williams in first pages of his text How to write about contemporary art. It is not easy to talk about […]
1 November 2020
Dear travelers, 2020 is the year in which, among the many uncertainties, we have also seen our possibility of traveling being questioned as we have been used to conceiving it, whether it was for a work commitment or for a weekend of pleasure, equipped with the essential, like our inseparable briefcase bag as perfect hand […]
17 October 2020
There are lives that seem made on purpose to become, without even the help of a bit of fiction, perfect plots for a book, a film, in short, a story to tell. Looking at them carefully, the life of each of us, even the most apparently boring one, if well scripted, could lend itself to […]
1 October 2020
words by @ale_theia It has been at least five years since I read Shipping out, David Foster Wallace’s essay about his first and last experience aboard a Caribbean cruise, first published in 1996 on commission from Harper’s Magazine, and then finished along with other essays in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do […]
17 September 2020
words by @ale_theia Do you remember the nineties? Probably yes, and there is no need to dig too much into the memory, since recently the fashion of those years has become trendy again, not only rescued to put it on the catwalk, as always happens in the eternal cycle of trends that are repeated and […]
2 September 2020
Words by @ale_theia Dear traveller, why do we photograph? To remember better, to find something or someone from the present in the near future, to collect or catalogue? Someone might answer: to share, to give, to make known and to tell. To inform, document a change. Or to not let go? To live a […]
17 August 2020
For many of us, photography is above all memory, a way to find something of the past that has been lost in the meantime, that is now far away or that has simply changed. Photography also allows us to move in space, taking us to places where we experience nostalgia. Photography not only allows us […]
1 August 2020
A giant silver Leica conquers the central shop window, surrounded by new and used lenses, small tripods, digital and analogue cameras. Outside, next to the sign with which Foto Ottica Cavour of via Fatebenefratelli is presented in the center of Milan, a few steps from the Cathedral and the alleys of Brera, the Leica logo […]
18 July 2020
We inherit many of our characters and inclinations from our parents, as happens with physical appearance, height, certain details, from the shape of the nails of the hands and ears to the way we walk. Even the passions, with which we are often nourished as children, become legacies, and I always wonder if they are […]
13 July 2020
Dear travelers, Federico Serrani is starting a new adventure. With the month of July 2020 the site has changed visually, acquiring new graphics and a new tool bar, more contemporary and smart, but also more elegant, to make your experience always pleasant and to make you feel at home. This new look is […]
