Meeting Benches World art in all forms

FRANCESCO HAYEZ 1/4 – He was born in Venice, growing up in the house of his maternal aunt, between walls full of paintings. He learned the art of painting restoration, is pupil Magiotto and Matteini, attended in Venice the New Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of 18, in Rome, he met Canova and Podesti, the artists that catalyze …

In “A Long Way Gone”, Beah, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 childsoldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. …

Any country and city, can be “feel” through the stories and the emotion of the books. For those who love to read, there are special places, where to satiate their hunger for knowledge, reliving the magical atmosphere of special places, those of the protagonists of timeless books. In Rome, a place to satisfy your hunger, awaits you a library that …

I SIT AT MY DESK I sit at my desk. What can I write to you? Sick with love, I long to see you in the flesh. I can write only, “I love you. I love you. I love you.” Love cuts through my heart And tears my vitals. Spasms of longing suffocate me And will not stop.   YOU …

ONE DAY I WILL RETURN IN YOUR EYES One day I will return your eyes, and I begin again. I return with an empty sound of metal, sun and wet. I will try through the papers of the time, your body and your hair green grape. I will crown you in silence with my mouth, and with my hands that …

AYA TAKANO 1/4 – She was born in Japan in a December day, reading stories of exotic animals and natural sciences, like a strong impact on her dreamy perception of the world. This female artist, has reinvented the otaku culture through a feminine perspective. Her childlike, long-limbed characters, live in a suspended state of adolescence. AYA TAKANO 2/4 – Exotic …

MIHO HIRANO 1/4 – She began painting in 2008, and studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Female faces (mostly teenagers), living in her nature. MIHO HIRANO 2/4 – The delicacy of creative originality, drives the artist to paint oil paintings, where she prefers female subjects, immersed in the joyousness of nature. The artist leaves nothing to chance what …

In the French region of Rhone-Alpes, on the third Thursday of November there comes a special guest: the Beaujolais Nouveau, one of the most famous French wines. It also, like other new wines, advises that came the autumn. On 20 November, this region awaits you, with celebrations preceded by a long night of waiting. The events planned for the celebration …

This is the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important holidays of the Chinese calendar. A special moment, where you too can eat moon cakes, and maybe even dancing, watching young women among the people while casting their colored handkerchiefs, waiting for loving hands that they collect, and their return, as a promise of love. Look up, breathing in the …

ANTONIO BUENO 1/4 – Being born from Spanish father and Polish mother, in Berlin, without imagining dying Italian. Hone the creative talent in Switzerland, France and Italy – so atypical and original – confronting the post-impressionism and abstract art, but also with the pop and neo-Dadaism, always attracted by comparison with its innovative character. ANTONIO BUENO 2/4 – The man …