Rich menu on FIRST Art, the FIRSTonline magazine dedicated to the world of art and culture, for the first weekend of September. We start again from the cinema, with the usual ABìCinema column by Patrizio Rossano which reaches the letter R. R as direction, our author suggests: “Direction is the synthesis of cinema: through the director's work the film takes shape, transforms from writing (the screenplay) in completed work intended for projection". However, the R is also that of great directors such as Jean Renoir (son of the famous father Pierre Auguste) and Roberto Rossellini, a pillar in the history of Italian cinema. With Rome city open of 1945 opens the season of Italian neorealism. Followed by Paisà in 1946 and in 48 Germania anno zero. Film archive titles follow, among which we mention a few: Stromboli, land of God, General Della Rovere of 1959 (Leono d'oro in Venice). In recent years he has dedicated himself a lot to television and has made documentary films such as the 1968 Acts of the Apostles and The seizure of power by Louis XIV. We should also remember Francesco Rosi, always with the R.
Romuald Hazoumè's masks arrive in New York: highly appreciated by European markets, African masks have become recurring motifs in the works of art of the western avant-garde of the twentieth century and now land at the Gagosian from 5 September to 13 October. Also in the Big Apple, the MoMA dedicates a tribute to Judson Dance Teacher: "For a short time in the early 60s, a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers and filmmakers gathered in the Judson Memorial Church in a socially Protestant congregation busy in New York's Greenwich Village, for a series of workshops that eventually redefined what "dance" meant", writes the magazine.
Also not to be missed are the "pumpkins", the sculptures by Anthea Hamilton on display until 7 October at the Tate Britain in London.
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