- FEBRUARY 2018 -
Native Americans
At Sedona, in search of the shaman Uqualla
by Stefania Dodge An International tourist destination for views like the one over the Grand Canyon, Sedona also gives the opportunity to learn more about the culture and spirituality of the Native Americans.Uqualla, chief of the Havasupai and spiritual leader, will be in Italy in June April 2016
The man from Gallipoli who told the story of the Native Americans
by Dino Levante Congedo Editore has just published, for the first time in Italian, the essay Gli indiani Pellerossa Abnaki e la loro storia (The Abnakis and their history), a precious document on Native American culture, published in New York in 1866 by the Jesuit Eugenio Vetromile, a native of Gallipoli October 2015
…On the trail of American Indian art
by Lorena Carbonara Just off the printing press comes Per i sentieri dell’arte nativa americana, a volume care of Emanuele Arciuli, pianist of international renown and refined expert in Native American art.The focus is on an almost unexplored panorama “midway between tribal belonging and americanness” January 2015
Native American art Tips for collectors
by Emanuele Arciuli Concluding his series of “Portraits of the artist” the pianist and expert on the culture and art of the Native Americans, Emanuele Arciuli, identifies the various genres of their work and gives suggestions about what to buy.At auction, for prices between € 1,000 and € 5,000, you can snap up some important works December 2013
Portrait of the artist Nicholas Galanin “Ceremony”
by Emanuele Arciuli He is one of the few artists in Alaska who have achieved international prestige.Photos, videos, sculptures and installations to portray the American Indian identity. Through irony and unexpected encounters between differing cultures October 2013
Portrait of the artist Nanibah Chacon “The game of silence”
by Emanuele Arciuli An American of Navaho origins, she was born into a family of intellectuals.In her pictures and murals, young Native American women looking like 50s pin-ups. But arcane geometries begin to appear… September 2013
Portrait of the artist Brad Kahlhamer “Custer died for your sins”
by Emanuele Arciuli He is one of the most interesting artists on the New York scene.In his pictures, eagles, coyotes, Native Americans and feathers create a vortex that sucks in the spectator.
But the condition of the Natives is not the end but only the starting point … July 2013
Portrait of the artist Jimmie Durham “The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian”
by Emanuele Arciuli The artist, of Cherokee origin – who at the moment has a personal exhibition at the Teatro Margherita in Bari, until August 31 – is perhaps the only, among Native Americans, to have had success in Europe as an artist tout court, with participation in events such as Documenta Kassel and the Venice Biennale June 2013
Portrait of the artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith “She had some Horses”
by Emanuele Arciuli Born in Montana but resident in New Mexico, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith breaks the clichés of the traditional world and the way of depicting the horses of the Indians.Art as political commitment and a unique pictorial trait, always pervaded with irony April 2013
Portrait of the artist Kevin Red Star “The Soul of the Indian”
by Emanuele Arciuli Born in an artistic family and with a great talent for drawing, Kevin Red Star received his education in the 60’s from the great teachers of the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe.In his art we find an almost dreamlike dimension but also subtle irony March 2013
Portrait of the artist Mateo Romero “Men on the Moon”
by Emanuele Arciuli Romero is one of the most successful painters in the South West and deals with various subjects: imperialism, war, the invasion of territory but also ceremonial scenes of the community or portraits of friends January 2013
Portraits of the artist Gerald Cournoyer “Flights”
by Emanuele Arciuli Starting this month in Bridge the portraits of Native American artists care of pianist Emanuele Arciuli, expert in Native American art.An overwhelming passion which was born ten years ago of an encounter with the paintings of Gerald Cournoyer December 2012
Indian Market and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Art and music come together in the heart of New Mexico
by Emanuele Arciuli The pianist from Bari, specialist in pieces dedicated to Native Americans, comments on the great fair of Santa Fe which is dedicated to their art, and tells of his concert which opened the event October 2012
Whitehawk Antique Shows at Santa Fe Thousands of objects “tell” the story of the Native Americans
In Madeleine Gehrig's lovely photographic reportage of the 2012 edition of the Show dedicated to the Historic American Indian Tribal and Ethnographic Art: jewels, bags, clothes, blankets, vases and lots more… October 2012
Edward Sheriff Curtis The photographer of the American Indians
by Lorena Carbonara His monumental photographic work documented a world heading towards extinction.From the chiefs on horseback in their plumed headdresses to the life on the reservations July 2012
The family as a communion of spirit rather than of blood
by Lorena Carbonara Nucleus expanded to include those who share the same vision of the world rather than the group of father, mother and offspring.The proposal for a new model of society through the analysis of tribal cultures and pre-western ones in The Sacred Hoop, by the Native American writer Paula Gunn Allenb June 2012
Sarah Winnemucca Writing as an “opportunity for redemption”
by Lorena Carbonara She was the first Native American woman to master the language of the “whites” perfectly.In 1883 she publishes her autobiography, a precious text in the understanding of the encounter/clash between a misleading culture and one which struggles to survive May 2012
“Kill the Indian and save the man” The dark chapter of the schooling of the Native Americans
by Lorena Carbonara A haircut, the substitution of traditional costumes with a uniform, a ban on speaking the native language or professing their creed were among the rules for the Native American children who, at the end of the 19th century, first set foot in Boarding Schools.Practices aimed at eradicating or what historian D.W. Adams defined “education for extinction” April 2012