Just when it looked as though the Neapolitan me could live on spaghetti and red sauce the good folks at Sainbury’s seduced me with a 33%-off promotion on tins (cans) of its Taste the Difference pomodori d’oro – plum tomatoes of the colour yellow. [Read more...]
Spaghetti with Red Sauce Goes Yellow
15 October 2010 By 1 Comment
no mozza wellies at London fashion week
How disappointing: no designer at London fashion week featured the white Wellington boots worn by the mozzarella makers of Campania, Italy in their collections. Stylish, hygienic and functional in a variety of social and industrial settings, the white mozza wellies, with their burly baby-blue treads, would have suited the wet-look creations, smooth finishes and pastel-accentuated light neutrals envisioned for spring 2010. [Read more...]
25 September 2009 By Leave a Comment
Joseph’s ladder & the vineyards of Aversa
The major work at the Beuys Is Here exhibition on view at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill until the 27th of September is Scala Napoletana (“Neapolitan Ladder”). The 1985 sculpture, completed by Joseph Beuys near the end of his life, was inspired by a ladder the German conceptual artist spotted on the island of Capri. Held upright by wires connecting it to lead spheres, Joseph’s ladder is oddly proportioned: the spacing between its long parallel members is narrow whereas the gaps between its rungs are rather wide. The meaning behind this paradox has baffled art critics as well as the man most intimately acquainted with the sculpture, Kyle, the attendant who’s shared a room with it, the De La Warr’s Gallery 2, since early July. When I began to tell my wife Viv about similar ladders I’d seen at vineyards in southern Italy, Kyle sidled over and doubled the size of my audience. [Read more...]
25 August 2009 By 1 Comment
