Meeting Benches World art in all forms

MAURICE DENIS 1/4 – He was born in a November day in Normandy, and its waters and coastlines would remain favorite subject matter throughout his career. He studied at École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. He believed that art should sanctify nature. Inside its work, the imagination again become the queen of our strengths, where liberate our sensitivity. MAURICE …

SAINT PAUL DE VENCE > Narrow streets, steep staircases, squares and fountains. A romantic medieval village built on a rock to escape the invasions of the Saracens, a precious pearl near Nice. Full of art galleries and craft shops, the village is full of artists, artisans and painters. You can go to the museum Maeght, to admire Chagall, Matisse and …

    Nous agissons toujours comme si quelque chose dépassait en valeur la vie humaine… mais quoi? We always act as if something is exceeded by value of human life … but what? Siempre actuamos como si algo se supera en valor de la vida humana … ¿pero qué? Noi agiamo sempre come se qualche cosa superasse il valore della …

SOLO SED Solo sed hombre y canto y el peso insoportable del vacío hace falta la piedra la palabra certera que alcance el mundo y rompa su sentido que exprese lo innombrable o que vuelva vencida y muda sosegada por fin a dar consuelo. ONLY THIRST Only thirst Man and singing and the unbearable weight of the empty Needless stone …

ALEX ALEMANY 1/4 – Since he was a little child, he was always drawing and painting, and his activity was as natural for he as breathing, as it was for other children to play football. He was born on January day in Spain, and studied Fine Arts between at the “Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos”. He traveled …

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 …