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The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici  Presents DANH VO  &  CHUNG GA OPLA  We The People (detail), (2011-2013) - Photo Nils Klinger The solo exhibition of Danh Vo – Chung ga opla at Villa Medici from 11 January to 10 February 2013 – is the second in a series of exhibitions focusing on the theme of Academia curated by Alessandro Rabottini. Born in 1975 in Saigon, Danh Vo has affirmed himself in only a few years as one of the most original voices in the International artistic panorama, thanks to the variety of idioms with which he treats the great themes of history - colonialism, economic and cultural imperialism, the relations between East and West and war - from a personal point of view. His work combines autobiography with the narration of great events, thus disintegrating the great division between History and personal history, between the dimension of individual experience and the horizon of world events.   At the age of four,

ENTROPIA di Angelo Cricchi & Simona Lianza

Galleria ROSSMUT- Roma  presenta  ENTROPIA di Angelo Cricchi & Simona Lianza ENTRòPIA Entropia è la drammatizzazione di una cosmologia psichica, un ciclo cosmico che parte dall’ordine per degenerare lentamente nel caos. Il caos che è seguito dall’annullamento, l’annullamento che rigenera un nuovo ciclo. All’interno del superbo e incompiuto centro polisportivo di Torvergata ideato da Calatrava, la linea di moda di John Malkovich è l’espressione stilistica che ci guida nella degenerazione entropica di un sistema chiuso. Un sistema - volta celeste, interpretato come un ventre di balena arcaico ed evocativo. Nel cosmo si alternano i cicli dei quattro soli generatori della vita dove l’uomo fa le veci del quinto sole perno delle rotazioni.  L’uomo al centro della cosmologia, protetto nel ventre della balena madre, cede alla presunzione di sentirsi fautore del suo destino e distinto dalla materia che lo circonda. Segna un proprio cammino guidato dal libero arbitrio e si e

New faces of Italian cinema

Angelo Iannelli With the 2012 film festivals just about wrapped up, we saw a big emphasis this year on newly emerging and independent filmmakers. This was most notable in the Venice Film Festival's Horizon's program, which gave these filmmakers an unprecedented amount of visibility as the program reached out to people all over the world via the internet.  To mark this current trend, I recently caught up with two independent filmmakers in Rome: Angelo Iannelli and Vito Napolitano. Each filmmaker has experience on both sides of the camera. Their origins are based in the south of Italy but they are now living in Rome. Angelo Iannelli was born in Benevento in the region of Campania, while Vito Napolitano is from Lecce in Puglia. What I enjoyed the most about our conversation is the passion with which the two young filmmakers speak about cinema. They are so enthusiastic and about their craft, they reel you right into their dreams. The three of us recently met up at the Li