Saturday, 25 February 2012

Confezioni Paradiso




Last night Confezioni Paradiso, a tiny but very cute textile boutique in Bologna, hosted a private view of a series of black biro illustrations by Virginia Mori.




Mori's illustrations wallow in a pool of quotidienne surrealism and are slightly unsettling (when I asked about Mori's 'thing' the very kind and elegant Ms Paradiso told me I could speak to her myself as she was outside, I must admit I did not jump at the chance) but their setting was so palatable I relaxed into the experience. Instrumental sounds crackled along the walls and got muffled in hand made 'Paradiso' textiles hanging there, wooden crates held lots of brown paper packets of nibbles to have with il vino, each sealed with a little copy of a Mori illustration and passers by were welcomed in and sat on the doorsteps, probably not chatting about Mori's impressive biro technique at all, in a very nicely understated way.



Afterwards I popped into Camera a Sud - I don't want to paint any verbal picture because it will sound kitsch, which it is not - but it often seems to be the perfect place for vino e cibo a Bologna.

Camera a Sud

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