Celebrating - and criticizing Barbie. Finally online the 1st part of “Che bambola!” (i.e. “What a doll!”) a series of videos on
the hideous-sweet adored icon, Barbie. This is an Italian speaking work by
Valeria Spera for deabyday (De Agostini group). Please meet in this trailer
Italian top collector and DCCI president Antonio Russo introducing Lilli, Barbie’s antecedent. Consider it not a shopping celebration, but rather
a critical and multidisciplinary reference work - you’ll understand why when you’ll see the whole movie. I feel, and actually I am, involved in this project. The most visible part of
my involvement is an interview, splitted in various dollcultural interventions soon online.
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Celebrare Barbie, con libertà di critica. “Che bambola!” Finalmente online la 1^ parte di una serie di video
sull’odiosamata dolce icona Barbie. Si tratta di un lavoro in italiano di cui è autrice
Valeria Spera per deabyday (gruppo De Agostini). Ecco in
questo trailer un top collector,
il presidente DCCI Antonio Russo, che introduce Lilli, la bambola antecedente di Barbie. Non consideratela una celebrazione commerciale, ma piuttosto
una fonte critica e multidisciplinare – capirete perché vedendo il filmato intero. Da parte mia mi sento, e in realtà sono, coinvolta nel progetto. La più visibile parte del
mio coinvolgimento è un’intervista, divisa in vari interventi dollculturali, presto online.
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http://www.deabyday.tv/secretcorner/ click the item titled “50 anni di Barbie” and, after viewing, click VIDEO CORRELATI (i.e. related videos) to find another piece of it! * cliccate sul titolo "50 anni di Barbie" e, dopo la visione, cliccate anche VIDEO CORRELATI per un altro pezzo di filmato!
Melted, repainted and assembled in a crowded space, Barbie and a number of other more or less recognizable toys make one of Matteo Peretti’s sculptures, now exhibiting in Rome. This one is entitled “Synthetic Brain”.
i.e. “Time flies” – bear in mind this. I visited last week Giovanni Gastel’s latest photo exhibition titiled “Maschere e Spettri” (i.e. Masks and Ghosts): an extreme research on feminine look presented in giant hyperglossy pictures where you see the very limit of total corruption of beauty and its transitory nature. Shocking images indeed. It’s make up that imitates illness, violence, abuse, incontinence, decomposition, but you feel overwhelmed, as it’s too believable and bleeding. At the same moment, I had the idea to compare these pictures to some of Marina Bychkova’s famous dolls. I think that also Marina is making an outstanding research on body and on the concept of “eternal”.
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