Nothing is written

Nothing is written
In a couple of hours, it will start all over again,
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces,
And the moon will boot up on the black screen of the sky,
humping toward God-knows-what,
And we, with our pinched mouths and pinched eyes, the next morning
Will see its foot print like a slice of snow
Torn off over Mt.Caribou,
Looking for somewhere else to be born.
CHARLES WRIGHT

François Pinault - Mapping the Studio

François PinaultFrançois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR. He is a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac. His holding company Artemis S.A., owns (or owned), among others, Converse shoes, Samsonite luggage, Château Latour, the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, and Christie's auction house. Artemis also owns Executive Life (now Aurora Life) in California, which was sued by policy holders when the company failed. Pinault owns one of the biggest collections of contemporary art worldwide. On the magazine ArtReview's 2006 list of most powerful people in modern art, he was ranked in first place. In 2006 he obtained the ownership of Palazzo Grassi in Venice to display the collection.

Mapping the Studio"Mapping the Studio" is a show in which the collection of François Pinault is the basis of the exhibition. Taking place on June 6, 2009, it is coorganized by the curators Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami. It includes 300 works from over 50 artists, including Robert Gober, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Mike Kelley, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, and Charles Ray. The presentation reflects Pinault’s over 30-year commitment to postwar art and his devotion to a group of contemporary artists whose works he has collected in depth.

What I believe - J. G. Ballard

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multistorey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.

I believe in the forgotten runways of Wake Island, pointing toward the Pacifics of our imaginations.

I libri principali dello scrittore sono: La mostra delle atrocità, probabilmente il suo capolavoro, dopo tre anni pubblica Crash in cui riprende i temi del romanzo precedente e dal quale è stato tratto un film per la regia di David Cronenberg. Abbandonato il tema della fantascienza scrive il romanzo L'impero del sole dalla forte componente autobiografica. Il suo ultimo romanzo è Regno a venire (Kingdom Come), una opera di critica sociale dove parla di consumismo, della società tardo capitalistica, dei mass media.

The Futurism

Futurism – The Scuderie del Quirinale, in conjunction with the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris and with the Tate Modern in London, is devoting a exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto of Futurism published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris.