The Silver Book - Olivia Laing visual art long laugh

long laugh

triggering a proliferation of masked faces avant la lettre

The point of departure is Chetna Vora’s documentary film OYOYO (1980)

open-ended lens

The Silver Book - Olivia Laing visual art long laughIt is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night. It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellinis Casanova. A young and beautiful