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L(over)s

L(over)s

I posted the work L(over)s on Facebook as soon as news about Covid-19 came out. Davide and I are always sensitive to environmental issues. When we made that video, we thought about a possible future in which the air would not be safe for humans. We also reflected over the quantity of waste that contemporary life generates such as the abuse of plastic and other materials that are highly pollutant -

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Androgynous

Androgynous

Leoni and Mastrangelo have directed short films and documentaries. Their works were selected in many national and international festivals. In Italy they won the Cosua’s award for videoart with the work Androgynous.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

In-Difference

In-Difference

In-Difference is a short video art project made in 2013. A woman in a red burqa is looking at the world around her through the only part of her body that is not covered. She holds the hand of a man with a red blindfold.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Person-A

Person-A

- We work with symbols and that makes our videos interpretable in different ways. The mask is a strong symbol, with many meanings, and we have used it in different works. In Person-A for example, we used it as the social mask, the one we put on in order to defend ourselves from the others -

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Pietà Live

Pietà Live

Inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietá, the sculpture located in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Leoni and Mastrangelo created another video masterpiece.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Leoni and Mastrangelo

Leoni and Mastrangelo

Enjoy more of their performances on their dedicated Channel

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Adolph Von Menzel: The Flute Concert

Adolph Von Menzel: The Flute Concert

Adolph Menzel grants us a detailed insight of a cultural evening at the court of Friedrich the Great in the palace Sanssouci. Music is being played, the king himself is playing the flute. He is standing in the centre of the picture. The focus of the painting is not on the instruments but rather the atmosphere of the musicians and the listening ones. The precious dresses and furniture, the interior design, the chandelier and the candle light is what Menzel wants to show us.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Carl Spitzweg: The Poor Poet

Carl Spitzweg: The Poor Poet

The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg depicts the popular cliché of the poet concentrating only on his art; his material wealth and appearances are not a priority. The poet is shown in his shabby attic room on a simple mattress. An umbrella has been positioned to protect him from the leaky roof, and his books surround him.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife

Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife

If we look closely at the cacophony of seemingly random images that make up Hannah Höch’s large-scale photomontage, a cross-section of Weimar Germany’s cultural and political milieu comes into focus. Here, the Kitchen Knife Dada - a metaphor for Höch’s careful slicing and dicing - cuts a swath from the lower right to the upper left, separating Dada and anti-dada elements.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on the Banks of a River

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on the Banks of a River

The Prussian architect/artist Karl Friedrich Schinkel painted Medieval City on a River in 1815. This masterpiece depicts an imaginary German landscape in which the sunlit gothic cathedral, framed by the rainbow, is the dominating feature, to which a procession of people dressed in medieval costumes is making their way.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Otto Dix: Flanders

Otto Dix: Flanders

The painting shows a field in Flanders where three devastating battles were fought. In contrast to war-time propaganda images, Dix’s canvas introduces war in the form of a battlefield where corpses and mud predominate, the one rotting and merging into the other. With this nightmarish tableau, Dix commemorated the victims of one World War in the hopes of preventing another.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Vincent Van Gogh

Meditate with Vincent Van Gogh

A five-minute slow-looking exercise to enjoy the details of Van Gogh’s ’Wheatfield, with Cypresses’ located in The National Gallery in London.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Joseph Mallord William Turner

Meditate with Joseph Mallord William Turner

A five-minute slow-looking exercise to enjoy the details of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ’Rain, Steam and Speed’ located in The National Gallery of London.

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Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Meditate with Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Slow looking at Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s ’Lake Keitele’ located in The National Gallery in London.

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Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Francisco de Zurbarán

Meditate with Francisco de Zurbarán

This five minute mindfulness video explores the lines, textures and reflections in Zurbarán’s painting, which encourages quiet contemplation by finding significance in everyday objects. This masterpiece is located in The National Gallery of London.

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Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Odilon Redon

Meditate with Odilon Redon

Take five minutes with Christina Bradstreet from our Learning team to look, slowly, at Redon’s dream-like pastel, ’Ophelia among the Flowers’. This masterpiece is located in The National Gallery of London.

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Maturity Level : all

Mindfulness for Kids

Mindfulness for Kids

When you focus on your breath, does it feel like waves rolling in and out? Join Miriam Van Doorn as she guides you through a short mindfulness session, especially for kids and their families. This mindfulness video encourages you to slow down and immerse yourself in art. It has been designed so you can join in from home.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Kids Yoga: Nature Adventure

Kids Yoga: Nature Adventure

Can you stand proud like a mountain or sway like a tree? Join instructor Miriam Van Doorn for a short kids yoga session, where you’ll go on a nature adventure. Get moving, feel good and be inspired by art. This session was filmed from the heart of the Queensland Art Gallery and is designed so you can join in from home.

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Maturity Level : all

Open Eye Meditation: Blandford Fletcher - ’Evicted’

Open Eye Meditation: Blandford Fletcher - ’Evicted’

Take 10 minutes of mindfulness and experience art in a new light, through this Open Eye Meditation session with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Take a slow and extended look at one artwork from QAGOMA’s Collection. In this session, you’ll experience Blandford Fletcher’s ’Evicted’ 1887.

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Maturity Level : all

Open Eye Meditation: Rupert Bunny - ’Bathers’

Open Eye Meditation: Rupert Bunny - ’Bathers’

Take 10 minutes of mindfulness and experience art in a new light, through this Open Eye Meditation session with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Take a slow and extended look at one artwork from QAGOMA’s Collection. In this session, you’ll experience Rupert Bunny’s Bathers 1906.

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Maturity Level : all

Open Eye Meditation: Hilda Rix Nicholas - ’The Fair Musterer’

Open Eye Meditation: Hilda Rix Nicholas - ’The Fair Musterer’

Take 10 minutes of mindfulness and experience art in a new light, through this Open Eye Meditation session with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Take a slow and extended look at one artwork from QAGOMA’s Collection. In this session, you’ll experience Hilda Rix Nicholas’ ’The fair musterer’ 1935.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Mindfulness Meditation: Breath

Mindfulness Meditation: Breath

Take a quiet moment for yourself and experience art in a new light, through this mindfulness meditation with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Filmed within the heart of the Queensland Art Gallery, this session focuses on breath and the practice of Sama Vritti or square breathing, that will help you to destress and relax at home.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Mindfulness Meditation: Be Here Now

Mindfulness Meditation: Be Here Now

Take a quiet moment for yourself and experience art in a new light, through this mindfulness meditation with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Filmed within the heart of the Queensland Art Gallery, this session focuses on the mantra ‘Be here now’, designed to help calm you and connect you with the present moment.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Mindfulness Meditation: Love & Kindness

Mindfulness Meditation: Love & Kindness

Take a quiet moment for yourself and experience art in a new light, through this mindfulness meditation with instructor Miriam Van Doorn. Filmed within the heart of the Queensland Art Gallery, this session is designed to bring awareness to your heart - where love, compassion and gratitude reside.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all