This week we visited MAST, a Bologna Museum of Art, Industry, Science and Experimentation. For the next two months they are featuring a show of a photography by artists capturing industry and work. It is a yearly competitive event by MAST – we saw some photos from prior winners. This year four of the five winners were women. A well dressed young woman (a miniature Gina Lollabrigida) who worked at the museum explained the different exhibits to us: she was smart, and wanted to practice her English (thank you!!!). |
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 | Atomic Elephant Blair Pessemier CANVAS PRINT 16 x 20" 40 x50 cm 80..00 |
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| There were three of the five presentations I really liked: an Australian man documented his grandmother, who emigrated from Poland in 1970. She was involved in shipping in Poland, but couldn’t get a job in that field in Australia, so she became a beekeeper. There were many photos of both Australia and Poland, her houses, her beekeeping garb, her family. I get so inspired by different sorts of art – she had fashioned a beekeeping outfit I want to reproduce (as a mosquito net) when I get a sewing machine. |
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 | Red Oranges Laurie Fox Pessemier PAPER PRINT 24 x 16"
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| The second show was about an Iranian woman from a difficult situation who worked in aviation and healed injured birds in the USA. The third I liked was about people working at an abandoned African factory, which was readapted for processing oils. |
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 | Iron Rhino Blair Pessemier CANVAS PRINT 11 X 14" 28 X 35 cm 80.00 |
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| I feel myself, like I am in a state of adaptation to this positively insane tariff situation. I am going to start working with an American company to produce our art as prints, and sell them, quite affordably. Maybe that is good. You can pick a picture you like, this company will produce it (they can even frame it), and I will send you a document authorizing the reproduction. It works very easily with my works on paper – those large newspaper images can be produced on fine paper, exact size; likewise the figure drawings. The paintings can be reproduced on canvas, sent to you, framed for a fraction of the cost of the original. I am looking at this situation as an OPPORTUNITY. You can own our artwork, and we can keep working. You’ll notice the new approach today, in this Artnotes. Buy now and “bye, now.” |
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 | Artists Shoes Blair Pessemier CANVAS PRINT 12 x 20" 30 x 50cm 80.00 |
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| All of these images are available as originals, but will take longer to ship. The canvas paintings are in the 500 range; the large paper images, 275.00. What do you think of the print idea? |
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INVITING All Artists to present their Work: Paint, Literature, Crafts, Food....
Pessemier's Sunday Salon
Weekly on Sunday No Reservation Necessary
How it works: Bring a piece of your ART: that could be visual, like painting or printmaking; or literary, as in poetry or prose; or crafts, like metalwork or knitting; or food, or music. Something you made, or feel particularly inspired by. You have about 5 minutes to present, and we'll ooh, ahh, or answer questions you have. You can also come and see how we work before diving in. Just show up on Zoom at a minute or two before the hour.
No selling, no networking until after everyone has presented. NO POLITICS please. |
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