Happy 2008
I’ve just gotten back to my desk and while I’m still a little chilly and tired, I’m also quite re-energized.
If it’s true that one’s workload is inversely proportional to the amount of empty space on one’s desk, then my future doesn’t look too good. While I was away, my heaps of papers have multiplied.
However, for the next little while, I can live off the memory of my recent holiday filled with the arts.
It all started just before Christmas, when I had been chosen to take my aunt and uncle to Malpensa Airport in Milan for their journey to some warm place. Right near the ticket counter of Terminal 1, I came across the “Solar Disk” by Arnaldo Pomodoro, which was amongst many other masterpieces by twenty 20th-century masters in the show “Exhibair, Twenty Masters from the Farnesina Collection“.
Later, my New Year’s Eve in Rome (thanks to a last-minute invitation from some friends of mine) would continue with a full-immersion in contemporary art.
I saw “We Try to Build the Future” (on until 31 January 2008) at Macro Future, which is an installation that investigates the relationship between art and architecture.
And to finish things off, I saw the Kubrick exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni (on until 6 January 2008), which gives a “behind the camera” view of his films through unpublished documents, costumes and sequences filmed backstage. Sometimes, I wonder why I never tried my hand at directing.
And you? What did you do?
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