Technology meets aesthetics, with Cordivari
With their rhythmically textured external surfaces, the Run and Seven Lines fan coils become natural elements in the landscape of contemporary interiors.
The Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen is holding an exhibition of his portraits, open until the end of August. American, born in 1918, Newman began taking photographs at the age of twenty showing himself to have a dry style which however captured characters and the essence of the subject, associating them with a key element or placing them in a context: Picasso in his studio, Bernstein in front of a musical score in a concert hall.
“People exist in space”, maintained Arnold Newman, who combined two of the main traditions of American photography – the studio portrait and reportage. Such as? The portrait of Igor Stravinsky immortalised in New York in 1946, seated in the left hand corner of the picture, the great composer seems reduced to a detail, leaving space to the real other protagonist of the photo, the grand piano. An iconic image which at the time was considered provocative, to the point that fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar refused to publish it.
until 31.8.2003
Arnold Newman
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13, Humlebæk, Copenhagen
T +45-4919 0719
http://www.louisiana.dk
A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape
The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.