BODY PAINTING

Damien Hirst butterflies

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  If you’re an animal lover, he’s already unlikely to  be one of your favourite artists.
  But even shark-pickling Damien Hirst’s fans might flinch at his latest work.
  An exhibition by the 47-year-old featuring live butterflies saw more than 9,000 of the beautiful insects die – around 400 a week.
  Many were killed during the  five-month run after being  inadvertently trodden on or brushed off visitors’ clothing.
  Thousands more died naturally during the exhibit, called In And Out Of Love, and had to be replaced.
  Yesterday, animal rights charities criticised the artist, whose works include a shark preserved in formaldehyde and a severed cow’s head.
  A spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said: ‘Damien Hirst’s quest to be edgy is as boring as it is callous.
  ‘It does not matter whether Hirst killed the animals himself or sat by while thousands of them were massacred for his own unjustifiable amusement.
  ‘Butterflies are beautiful parts of nature and should be enjoyed in the wild instead of destroyed for something predictable and unimaginative.’
  An RSPCA spokesman added: ‘In this exhibition, butterflies are forced to exist in the artificial environment of a closed room for their entire lives.
  ‘There would be national outcry if it involved any other animal, such as a dog.
  
  
  
  

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Auditorium Temporaneo, L'Aquila, Renzo Piano

E’ stato inaugurato il 7 ottobre, a l’Aquila, l’Auditorium Temporaneo progettato da Renzo Piano. Presenti all’evento, il Presidente della Repubblica, Giorgio Napolitano, molte cariche istituzionali  e ovviamente il sindaco della città capoluogo dell’Abruzzo, Massimo Cialente. Per mettere a tacere le polemiche nate attorno alla nuova costruzione, il sindaco ha affermato in conferenza stampa “Io non lo smonterò mai. Per farlo dovranno trovare un altro sindaco e un’altra giunta, ma dubito che lo faranno. Anche la Tour Eiffel doveva essere provvisoria“. L’opera, finanziata dalla Provincia Autonoma di Trento con circa 7 milioni di Euro, è stata definita da Renzo Piano come un “Modulo ad uso concertistico provvisorio“.

L’opera sorge all’interno del cinquecentesco Forte Spagnolo che ospitava un auditorium da 240 posti, reso inagibile a causa delle lesioni alle strutture provocate dal sisma del 6 aprile 2009.

L’edificio è formato da tre distinti edifici in legno (la maggior parte è abete rosso della Val di Fiemme) a forma di cubo collegati tra loro: il primo – il più importante – ospiterà l’auditorium (capienza 238 spettatori e 40 orchestrali). La caratteristica di questa opera è  l’inclinazione di 30 gradi: al suo interno la gradinata che ospita il pubblico è collocata sulla facciata inclinata, che permette di ottenere una visibilità ottimale.

A completare il nuovo auditorium, altri due cubi più piccoli, ai lati del cubo principale,  che saranno adibiti a foyer e a camerini di artisti, musicisti e entourage. I tre cubi in legno e multicolori di Renzo Piano sembrano tre dadi gettati “a caso” all’interno dell’area.

Tutta la struttura completamente è costruita in legno, salvo una soletta in cemento armato, che poggia a sua volta su più pilastri in cemento dotati di isolatori capaci di sopportare eventuali nuovi scosse sismiche.

Il nuovo centro della musica totalmente ecosostenibile e antisismico  è stato realizzato coinvolgendo gli studenti aquilani nella messa in opera: «Non è solo un simbolo, ma è già una realtà, concreta e molto bella», ha detto Napolitano in occasione della sua inaugurazione.

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It 'was inaugurated on October 7, in Aquila, the Temporary Auditorium, designed by Renzo Piano. Present at the event, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, many institutional persons and of course the mayor, Massimo Cialente. To silence the controversy arisen around the new building, the mayor said at a press conference "I do not get off it ever. To get it down you will have to find another mayor and in future other mayors will come but I doubt they will get down this. Even the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be temporary. " The work, funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, with about 7 million, has been defined by Renzo Piano as a "module to use temporary concert."

The work is set in the sixteenth century Spanish Fort which housed an auditorium with 240 seats, rendered unusable because of injuries to structures caused by the earthquake of April 6, 2009.

The building consists of three separate buildings of wood (most are Spruce Val di Fiemme) cube-shaped interconnected: the first - and most important - will host the auditorium (seating 238 spectators and 40 orchestral) . The characteristic of this work is the inclination of 30 degrees: inside the stairs that houses the public is located on the facade inclined, which allows to obtain optimal visibility.

Rounding out the new auditorium, two smaller cubes, the sides of the main cube, which will be used as a foyer and dressing rooms for artists, musicians and entourage. The three wooden cubes  look like three dice thrown "at random" in the area, said Renzo Piano. 

The whole structure is completely built in wood, unless a reinforced concrete slab, which rests in turn on more concrete pillars with insulators capable of withstanding any new seismic shocks.

The new center of music totally eco-friendly and earthquake-proof has been realized by involving students in L'Aquila installation: "It is not only a symbol, but it is already a reality, tangible and very beautiful," Napolitano said during his inauguration.