The Merry Widow

This post talks about life.
You don’t know the woman in this picture.
Her name is Veneranda Longhin and today, 16th december 2007, is the first anniversary of her death.
She didn’t know internet era, but I want her name is linked forever on the web throught this post.
This post talks about her.
A woman of strenght and elegant with the passion for dresses and fashion accessories, always impeccably dressed.
When I was a child I thought she was like an actress, Sofia Loren.
A woman with passion for yellow colour, flowers and plants, a good handmade embroidery worker, a woman that loved live.
Born in 1923, death in 2006.
Dear Grandma’,
during this year, it was difficult to live only with your remembrance but all your smiling photos give me a right way to live my days.
Goodbye again,  I am glad to have spent 26 years with you.

Waiting for a David LaChapelle account in Flickr, I have discovered his MySpace Account and I have visited his show in Milan.
Into Palazzo Reale, until 6th January 2008, you can appreciate around 350 photos of this american photographer and director.

This kind of retrospective-exhibition is divided into parts about different themes: “Deluge”, “Awakeness”, “Heaven to hell”, “Meditation”, “Recollection in America”, “After Pop”, “Accumulation”, “Dream Evokes Surrealism”, “Destruction and Disasters”, “Violence as Entertainment”, “Plastic People”, “Consumption”, “Excess”, “Star System”.
The most of his work is composed by provocative photos about our consumer society and our fixations with material things and the decline of traditional values.
Into the exhibition you can find also music videos he has realized for famous performers as well as Gwen Stefani, Elthon John, Moby, Jennifer Lopez and commercial video (H&M).
I like this artist because he has a similar vision of society of mine and he reproduces it very well into his works. He has everything to be considered an artist like Dalì.
(Dalì, one of my favourite artist. In 2004 in Palazzo Grassi Venice, I saw a retrospective who celebrates the centenary of his birth. Masterpiece!)

Link to Press Release about LaChapelle exhibition

Being a Gemini is very difficult. It means I am “dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory” (from Astrology Online)
Keep a few minutes thinking about the word “contradictory”.
Then, I am in trouble:
should I ask for Christmas my first LaCoste or should I continue my  fight against consumerism thinking?