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Crepuscolo – the twilight moment in Barga Vecchia

A recent malfunction with the software which uploads images from the camera to the computer, which meant that images for an article about an interesting event involving Tango here in Barga was permanently lost has forced me to reinstall, update and generally check over the whole photographic system used on the site. Now by the looks of things everything is working as it should but there is still that nagging doubt somewhere in the back of my brain that images [...]

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08/01/2012 9:25 pm

Suitcase performance in Barga

Over the past few years we have published numerous articles about Chairart (articles here) – 20 white chairs and the 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. Each year the number of participating artists grows and the choice of painted objects expands – last year it was not...

06/26/2012 12:38 am

Shameless Summer – Senza Vergona

The Glory Hole – by Fabrizio Da Prato and Keane – The undoubtedly provocative title which we have used for our work “the glory hole” alludes to our interpretation of the nebulous confines between art, eroticism and pornography. A glory hole is a hole in a wall, or other partition,...

05/02/2012 10:02 am

Dai campanari di Barga un riconoscimento a Keane e l’annuncio del Raduno Nazionale

Il 30 aprile scorso, durante una bella serata conviviale presso il circolo del comitato paesano di S. Pietro in Campo, i campanari di Barga, insieme al proposto Mons. Serafini, hanno voluto ringraziare Keane per la cordialità e l’attenzione dimostrata negli anni verso il gruppo barghigiano e verso...

01/21/2012 5:11 pm

Albo Pretorio come galleria: Keane inaugura la prima mostra

L’atrio di un palazzo cinquecentesco e un’installazione di arte contemporanea. Comincia con questi due elementi la nuova vita culturale di “Barga città d’arte”. Lo spazio in questione è l’ingresso di Palazzo Pancrazi, sede comunale, che sta per cambiare ruolo nella vita della cittadina....

01/11/2012 11:20 pm

Suor Carmelina is no more

We republish an article from 2009 in its entirety after the news that Suor Carmelina died this morning in Rome in her retirement home at the Casa Madre delle Suore Giuseppine di Chambéry where she has been resting since 2008. The article is here : – Three weeks ago during the night, a couple...

11/22/2011 1:27 am

The Aristo three minute sketches

A new product on the market has been going thorough some testing this week at Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia. It’s called the Wacom Inkling and with an exquisite design and 1024 levels of pressure, it looks like the perfect device for anyone who sketches anything, from illustrators to architects. The...

10/30/2011 10:42 pm

Preparations for Halloween in Barga

Barga Vecchia this afternoon was a bustling place as preparations were well underway for tomorrows Halloween festival. It is a relatively new phenomenon here in Italy and people have not yet really quite worked out just what is supposed to happen. They know that there is a good deal of dressing up...

10/07/2011 4:07 pm

The Walls of Barga – exhibition by Keane

Barga, its fondest promoters love to say, is a “classic example of a Tuscan hilltown.” But what exactly defines the classic appearance of Barga – or for that matter, Tuscany? The answer, says an exhibition in the entrance hall of Palazzo Pancrazi, home of Barga’s municipal government, is not...

09/07/2011 3:17 pm

The thumbnail Nuns of Barga

Artists at Work who have been working in the territory over the past two decades are very active, especially in Barga during the summer months. Probably the most public of their events in recent years was in 2010 and was also without a doubt, the one event which was physically the largest, we are...

09/01/2011 3:02 pm

Keane – list of works since 1985

2011 The Walls of Barga 2008 Margini – stone installations at 1600 metres 2007 The Nuns of Barga – drawings/oil paintings 2006 The mutande of Barga – oil paintings 2005 Generated collision images – digital 2004 Tulse Luper Suitcases- images...

07/31/2010 12:19 pm

Last day of the Art Sale – Sold Out

Today is the final chance to pick up an art bargain from Casa Cordati as the exhibition SOLD OUT goes into its final day. Specially printed leaflets were distributed in Barga this weekend featuring some of the art on sale in the gallery. The leaflets resembled quite closely the advertising leaflets...

07/15/2010 5:01 pm

Sold Out exhibition of paintings

The two artists featured this month at Barga’s Casa Cordati couldn’t be more different, apart from a peculiar common element in their work: faces. Or more properly, facelessness. The point is inescapable in the men and women who populate Fabrizio Da Prato’s canvases. They are presented...

01/25/2010 3:53 pm

One painting, 3 pairs of hands

Last night saw the closing of the exhibition run by the collective Artefact at the l’iNStallazione di Venti d’Arte in via provinciale, Fornaci. Instead of just taking down the paintings and switching off the lights, the three artists, Keane, Sergio Fini and Nicola Salotti, decided...

01/14/2010 1:38 am

Artefact exhibition in Fornaci

ARTEFACT vuole essere la prima manifestazione artistica, sotto forma di mostra collettiva, che il laboratorio- contenitore l’iNStallazione di Venti d’arte intende proporre al pubblico. In un ambiente che vuole lavorare con l’emozionalità, alla riscoperta di vecchi e nuovi codici, che crede...

01/02/2010 1:45 am

The Nuns of Barga paintings go public

There is considerable interest in Barga this week when it became known that there will be the first public exhibition of paintings “The Nuns of Barga” by the artist Keane. The paintings will be on show as part of the opening exhibition of a new contemporary art gallery opening at...

12/14/2009 10:45 pm

The Mutande of Barga are back on view

After a gap of almost 5 years since they were painted, the “Mutande of Barga” will be once more in public view and maybe this time they won’t cause quite such a scandal as the last time they aired. The Mutande of Barga - The Knickers of Barga, are a series of large oil paintings...

12/03/2009 12:11 am

The Nuns of Barga – update

The artist Keane has been working on the same theme for the past two years. The work is based around a small group of people who have been living and working in Barga for generations, but now as a group are close to extinction – the nuns of Barga. Their numbers can be counted on one hand, and they...

11/03/2009 12:43 am

Keane – latest CV

1983-1984 Toured Europe with own street theatre “Lord Lucan’s Travelling Box” Since 1985 Living and working in Italy as a painter 1991 Elected member of Fine Art Society, Florence Italy 1992 With Fabrizio Da Prato and Tiziana Fontana formed “Artists at Work” 1996 started...

10/31/2009 2:05 am

Dark umbrellas at L'osteria

Luca Galeotti from Il Giornale di Barga shines a light on the subject A short exhibition (lasting only three days) of some very dark umbrellas at the L’osteria in Piazza Angelio opened this evening. The artist Keane who painted a series of bright cheerful and sunny umbrellas for the Lake Angels...