One thousand Italian musicians came together in Cesena, Italy for an epic performance of the Foo Fighters song Learn to Fly to convince the band to play a gig in their city. The idea was the brainchild of Fabio Zaffagnini, who is a huge fan of the Foo Fighters and desperately wants the band to visit his hometown. And guess what? It worked! Dave Grohl and company responded via Twitter, saying, "Ci vediamo a presto, Cesena," which translates to "See you soon, Cesena."
It 's me, not the artist. Karl Arnaiz's "Duality" (currently on view at Eskinita Art Gallery ) is an invitation to ponder the complexities of life and appreciate the balance that exists even in differences. This 36 x 27-inch piece in charcoal and watercolor isn't just art that looks pretty on a wall. It's art that makes you stop, think, and maybe even re-evaluate how you see the world. Karl Arnaiz paints a meditation on death and its contrasting yet inevitable connection with life. In Duality, he explores the darker corners of the human experience. There is a certain sense of psychological imprisonment that permeates his work, as he paints a woman confined in a room with a disconnected skull floating against the wall. It shows how powerless humans are in the face of mortality and how the imminent passage of time from the woman’s face to the skull is simply nothing but a straight line, a blank, negative space on the wall, showing how nothing can obstruct death...
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