de croquetas y ‘humanitas’ (2)
Today, the 2nd of April of 2023, I went to see if Carmen, my favourite Spanish restaurant here in Pequín, was still opened. After the tremendous COVID-19 end and beginning…
Tag: the humaniter's tenets
de croquetas y ‘humanitas’ (1)
The idea of creating a substantial post(s) on the subject of food as a noble material in terms of humanitery artisanry is almost as old as the COVID-19 pandemic, going…
one more thing-2: beauty is FORMAL INTENT
Last post today on this deliciously beautiful book, Beauty. Few important artists working today talk openly about beauty as a goal for their art. […] the sincere and unequivocal pursuit…
one more thing-1: beauty IS function
Last Sunday, I still found by sheer chance another relevant quote about form and function from Beauty. I wanted to post it that evening, but, instead, fever struck me in…
takumi
In the West we developed a tradition of almost deifying the artist that ultimately put the artisan aside, basically, to a merely decorative function. But, living in China as I…
form replaces function-2
I can never stop saying that, for me, beauty is number one in whatever I try to accomplish both personally and professionally. The captions from Beauty that I showed in…
noble materials y katachi
There are quite a few books out there entitled Ikigai, but this is the one I did find in the one book store chain that to this day has been…
460 giorni avec Battiato
Después de más de un año siguiendo a Battiato tan intensivamente, creo poder decir que, si no lo conociste bien, o quieres disfrutar de una finísima selección de entre lo…
altri tre arte callejero examples su Battiato
Questo è probabilmente conosciuto de muchos de vosotros porque está en Instagram. Es de TVBOY, otro artista callejero italiano. Lo hizo hace unos años (credo que in 2020…) en Barcelona:…
estarcido Battiato
Ya que estábamos con Battiato…, y hablando de arte callejero… Recientemente he descubierto en la red social Vero uno de esos maravillosos estarcidos de esos que a veces se hacen…
432 días con Franco
En mi estudio de las canciones de Battiato cabalgo a hombros de una gigante que en 2016 las recopiló y tradujo al español (¡ojo!: italiano, inglés, francés, árabe, persa, alemán,…