Chante au Bistrot 82!

 By: AndyFerrari    11:30  Curitiba, dryed hydrangeas, engraving, etching, fine arts college, masks, street market   No comments

A wednesday filled with New! Last night was my first in the house, which was great, I love the light well I have in my bedroom. Mika sang a new song in his gig in Seoul yesterday (maybe you don't know, but he had been quite out of the picture till a couple of months ago, and to me it's nice to hear something new :}), my dear friend Fran made me realize I don't need my camera cable 'cause the new computer can read the memory card (yes, I'm that slow, lol), and I went to Curitiba and stayed a week to go to the opening of the Bienal Vento-Sul.

The weather was surprisingly good! Good weather in Curitiba makes me happy. I went to the municipal market, which is a dream if you like to cook with fresh things, and got artichokes....

       

Which I made in the oven with a bit of balsamic vinager and tiny potatos, after having them slightly sauteed in a pan while olive oil and fresh chopped garlic. They ended up very good.

Sunday I went to the street market at the Largo da Ordem, and the weather was still good! 

And there I found new material for the masks! They are beautiful dryed hydrangeas, dyed in all sorts of colors. They are gorgeaous and very soft. You can find them right in front of the Garibaldi Palace(last pic).

And this, well is a painting on a parking lot wall that I found quite interesting...

And then, coming back from taking these pics, I stoped by the Contemporary Art Museum, and found out the entire second floor were exhibitions of some of my college teachers! I took some pics too ♥

Rossana Guimarães (was my engraving teacher on the 1st year)

Juliane Fuganti (etching teacher, 4th year)

Roberto Pittela (photography teacher)

Pedro Gória (etching teacher, 3rd and 4th years)

Beatriz Nocera (Composition and plastic, painting ,and semiotics teacher)

Ok, I think that's enough for one post right? Right. So see you soon...I'll bring news on the hydrangea masks :)

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Non mi importa quanto cielo dovrò strappare

 By: AndyFerrari    20:25  Curitiba, theatre, travel   No comments

So, went to Curitiba this weekend :) And since the Curitiba Theatre Festival was taking part, we decided to pick at least one show. We saw the most amazing piece by Circo Roda, called DNA, Somos Todos Muito Iguais (DNA, We are all too much alike) at the Ópera de Arame(Wire Opera House).

And of course, on sunday morning we went to the Largo da Ordem street market. It takes place every sunday morning at Curitiba's historical center, close to a lot of art galleries and museums. You can find all sorts of things in this amazing fair, from the Drooling Horse (no, that's not the real name...it's The Memory Fountain ^ ^) right in the middle of it, amazing food and handmade everythings.

If you ever go to Curitiba, this is a must visit. If don't....well at least you can check this out. It's in portuguese, but provides amazing pics from all over the city :)

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A pretty flower in a vase

 By: AndyFerrari    15:12  artichoke, bienal, bookstores, Curitiba, design, fabric, flower   No comments

Well, it's been a while! Mostly 'cause I haven't been founding anything to post really =p I've been working at something, but I'm not going to show it just yet (it's something for Mika's concert at the Planeta Terra Festival in november).

I've been in Curitiba the last week, and staying 'till sunday, mostly for the Bienal Brasileira de Design. Already went to the part of it at MON (Museu Oscar Niemeyer) wich's about raw materials, and it was awesome. A lot of things being developed on natural fibers and rubber, and in the second part how recyclables are being re-used in all sorts of ways.

And of course, went a little shopping for books (can't resist a bookstore...) and fabrics. Awesome artichoke printed fabric! (I find artichokes amazingly beautiful btw... didn't know they blossomed 'till a few months ago). There was this little restaurant in the way I always took to go to the Leather school, and they always had sunflowers or blossomed artichokes on a little round table on the front, that's the first time I really saw one, although someone had told me about that some time before.

Artichoke <.3 (image from http://greenforkutah.blogspot.com)

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