MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

THE BOOK OF PADUA

2022.11.16

Text by Lucrezia Sgualdino.

Hermès presents The Book of Padua, a volume that joins the series dedicated to Italian cities. Vincenzo Castella’s photos tell the magic of this place.

Hermès decides to pay tribute to the city of Padua with a book published by Silvana Editoriale created in collaboration with photographer Vincenzo Castella and art critic Salvatore Lacagnina. Castella fully captures the magic of this place, which stretches between narrow alleys and elegant porticoes; known for Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel and the Basilica of St. Anthony, it is also home to the historic University. A place full of artistic testimonies that can tell and inspire. The Botanical Garden of Padua, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, hosts forty images from the book. There are four main themes told in the selection, allowing the viewer to embark on a journey between art and nature, between reality and dreams. The Botanical Garden, symbolizing plant world more generally, painting that recalls frescoes and decorations preserved in period churches and palaces, architecture extended to the concept of space and place, and the University itself, one of the oldest in the world. A real narrative of one of Italy’s oldest cities, cradle of art and science.

 

The exhibition displayed at the Botanical Garden of Padua will be open to the public until January 8th, 2023.

 

 

For further information ortobotanicopd.it.

Orto Botanico, Anemone giapponese nel quarto dell'Albizia.

“Hermès is a maison strongly linked to our country; the buildings that house our boutiques are chosen with passion, privileging places with personality and charm so that they fit fully into the heart and life of the city. Cities where Hermès feels at home, which inspired the idea of this series of photographic volumes.”

– Francesca di Carrobio, CEO of Hermès Italie

Orto Botanico, Cactacee e Asparagacee della serra arida americana.

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FONDAZIONE PRADA 

 

The Cere anatomiche project, conceived in collaboration with La Specola of Florence and the known director David Cronenberg, promotes the interests for the scientific studies through a contemporary artistic vision. 

Photography

THE MAZE OF
A MIND

2023.03.22

The complexity of the human brain and the multiple states of mind of the subjects portrayed in Fryd Frydendahl’s photographs explored in the book Salad Days and the exhibition MAZE – Potential Archives at the Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen.

FINE JEWELRY

PUTTING DIAMONDS
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

2023.03.21

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS

 

The two new chapters of the iconic fine jewelry collection Legend of Diamonds.

CINEMA

THE WORLD’S
SCARIEST MOVIE

2023.03.20

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the volume published by Taschen that explores the world conceived by the director and tells the long path to the realization, showing photographs, documents and scenes never seen before. 

rive droite

THE VISUAL STORYTELLER

2023.03.15

Anthony Vaccarello invites artist Rachel Seidu to exhibit her photographs at Saint Laurent Rive Droite stores in Los Angeles and Paris, transporting the viewer through an emotional journey.