Heritage Landscapes vol.13

Have you ever wondered what happened to the movies that were announced but never actually came out? Well, they're probably on Drawing for Nothing.

Drawing for Nothing is a free ebook, obtained through a good-hearted operation on the copyright limit. Animation reels, books, interviews, resumes were examined. Unknown films and cancelled projects from DreamWorks, Warner Bros, Madhouse, Walt Disney appear.

The result is a book of missed and possibilities, unknown or barely heard of films and characters that someone for a long time believed in and then disappeared. But it is a project in which these characters, these worlds contained in just a few lines, are made available to creative people, becoming a huge new source of inspiration, for, who knows, some work that will perhaps have better luck or will simply be destined for countless other forms.

Chapters are added periodically, there are no programs, authors have aliases, it is suggested to download the ebook, tie it with string, spread it out and fall asleep on it.

To mark the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death, the National Automobile Museum in Turin is dedicating an exhibition curated by Carlo Cavicchi to the Brazilian driver that will run until Oct. 13. A free path among 255 objects that tell the story of a champion's greatness. There are gloves, suits, autographed helmets, shoes, shirts, bottles uncorked during victories, apology letters, contracts, motorcycles, photographs, films, and monographic publications. MAUTO and Chora Media have also put together a three-episode podcast to accompany the exhibition and tell the story of a driver who made his debut with karts in Brazil and then made it to the world's most important circuits.

Giorgio Armani is turning 90 years old. For this grand occasion, the Milano Fashion Library-the most important fashion library in Italy-dedicates all its spaces to the Italian designer for the time of one week. Until Friday, July 19, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., an unprecedented exhibition of publications dedicated to Armani from 1974, the year of his debut, to today opens for free: a way to celebrate in a big way one of the brightest minds in Italian fashion.

Neutro Roberts turns 120 years old, and celebrates with a 4-minute short film, produced by Movie Magic and directed by Xavier Mairesse, which tells the story of Henry Roberts. It is 1843, in Florence. Young English pharmacist Henry Roberts is looking for a craftsman to make the sign for his new pharmacy. And so a small but great story unfolds amidst period clothing and nineteenth-century atmosphere, rain, work, study, and a great concern for others. The short film is compelling, beautiful, sensitive. And it manages to take us there when “a small drop of glycerin, was the beginning of a great story.”

Credits: Drawing for Nothing; Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile di Torino; Giorgio Armani, Milano Fashion Library; Neutro Roberts, Movie Magic, Xavier Mairesse.

Today, we like to mention two pieces published in ARCHIVIO dedicated to Giorgio Armani. Let's start with the last one: on ARCHIVIO N°9 - The Fashion Issue, Filippo Tarentini, with the curatorship of Robert Rabensteiner, reinterpreted with his shots key pieces of Armani's archive, where shadows, darkness, points of light, and the shapes of vintage clothes play with each other telling the depth, the relationship with the past of the archives, and their continuous intertwining with the present and the future.

On ARCHIVE No. 6, we hosted a letter exchange between Giorgio Armani and Valerio Millefoglie. The two chatted starting with an Akira Kurosawa film and the 1981 fall-winter collection inspired by Japanese tradition, and then touching on the films “The Untouchables” and the more than 500 garments commissioned by Brian De Palma.

The latest issues of ARCHIVE can be found here. And we are already preparing more surprises.