Stefano Zago – Stefano Zago

Positive/Negative – Depth

Positive – Negative

Questions of depth.

The introduction of elements in the foreground that rise out of the frame produces depth and a photographic effect.

The history of women’s work in Venice

As this is the week of the fight against discrimination, I would like to share with you two pages of notes I collected yesterday on my notebook during a lecture at THE EHESS: École des hautes études en sciences sociales In Paris, on the history of women’s work in Venice given by Professor Paola Lanaro of the University of Cà Foscari, Venice. In particular, I point out that dwelling on images by drawing in a simple and spontaneous way while listening to a speaker at the same time can help us discover meanings we might not have noticed otherwise.
I also invite us to experiment with various calligraphies in note-taking by giving more or less emphasis to words that we find more or less important.

The Nomad K

Collage created during a workshop at the Patronage Laïque Jules Valles, Paris.

Splash!

Etude pour l’affiche du Festival des Arts – Giudecca / Sacca Fisola Venise 2023.

Historia Calamitatum – 01

Fragonard at the Musée du Luxembourg

I made this drawing on invitation at the Musée du Luxembourg, in Paris, during the exhibition dedicated to Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
A few days after the November 2015 attacks, in a militarised and frightened Paris, I sought an evening of peace in the drawing. Given my state of mind, my drawing was reduced to a single panel, where I represented the works, their sensuality in a context so contrasted with the situation I was in. I wanted to represent in the work also to the other artists present, considering our work, like the works we study, an act of resistance against barbarism and obscurantism.

Unrest

The ballad of Sexual Dependency

On the occasion of the release of Nan Goldin’s film All the beauty and the bloodshed, I offer these drawings made during the screening at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2015, with music by the Tiger Lillies.

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, made between 1979 and 1986, is one of Nan Goldin’s earliest photographic series, but remains today, and rightly so, the best known of all her works. The slide show projected on a large screen is accompanied by the Tiger Lillies. A London musical trio, they are dark, provocative and blasphemous, grimacing with their Brechtian inspiration which fits perfectly with the images. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a masterpiece, an authentic chronicle of modern times.

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Nan Goldin, fotography

The Tiger Lillies
^{Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Jonas Golland}

^{* Source: Philharmonie de Paris
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/spectacle/16677-nan-goldin-tiger-lillies}