Omaggio a Hal Ashby

Julie Christie, Warren Beatty in Shampoo (in alto); Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (sotto)

10 personaggi che ho amato/10 characters I loved

1. Freddie Clegg as played by Terence Stamp
The Collector (William Wyler; 1965)

"You could fall in love with me if you tried.

I’ve done everything I could to make it easy. You just won’t try!"

2. Roslyn Taber as played by Marliyn Monroe

The Misfits (John Huston; 1960)

"Maybe all there really is is just the next thing. The next thing that happens.

Maybe you’re not supposed to remember anybody’s promises. "

3. Turner as played by Mick Jagger

Performance (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg; 1970)

"The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. "

4. Nami "Sasori" Matsushima as played by Meiko Kaji

Female Prisoner Scorpion films (Shunya Ito/Yasuharu Hasebe; 1972-73)

"To be deceived is a woman’s crime."

5. Tuco Ramirez as played by Eli Wallach

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone; 1966)

"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk."

6. Angel Blake as played by Linda Hayden

Blood on Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard; 1971)

"Little Mark had the Devil in him so we cut it out."

7. Marcel as played by Pierre Clementi

Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel; 1967)

"Many girls would love to be in your place."

8. Countess Bathory as played by Delphine Seyrig

Daughters Of Darkness (Harry Kümel; 1971)

"Let the dead bury the dead."

9. Maude as played by Ruth Gordon

Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby; 1971)

"It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live life fully."

10. Klaus Kinski as Klaus Kinski

My Best Feind (Werner Herzog; 1999)

"I am not your superstar."

Vassivière – Marisa Merz at CIAP

Images courtesy of Centre international d’art et du paysage

de l’île de Vassivière, Vassivière (France).

From July 15th to September 26th 2010, the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière hosts a solo exhibition of Marisa Merz, an unmistakable figure of Arte Povera who has developed an original, solitary work. The artworks on exhibit are characterized by the wise recourse to silence and absence, elements with which Marisa Merz has throughout the years known how to use in a repertoire of forms as intense as they are evanescent.

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Since the seventies, Marisa Merz’s presence has uniquely and continuously convoked minimal apparitions, incomplete figures, fragments of bodies or objects, relics made from soft materials. The shown works are new productions entirely conceived for the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière.

source: www.moussemagazine.it