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I am Beautiful. Auguste Rodin, 1882

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Marilyn Monroe posing with hairdresser Sidney Guilaroff’s statue of the discus thrower. Photograph by Milton Greene.

Les lunes. Jean-Jacques Salvador, 1995-1997

Je voulais montrer le visage familier de la lune et garder la précision des images scientifiques que l’on connaît.
Les astronomes ne photographient jamais la pleine lune car, sa surface est alors trop lisse. J’ai donc choisi de la reconstituer quartier par quartier.

Pale Blue dot

Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right) within the darkness of deep space.

Sagan pointed out that “all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel (shown here inside a blue circle), which is our only home” (speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994.)

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Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square
Oil on blotting paper with gouache, pencil and varnish

Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his series of paintings, Homage to the Square, in which he endlessly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Less well-known are the studies he made for these compositions. With approximately sixty oil sketches on paper, this exhibition will reveal a private side of Albers’s work. These sketches were never exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and have rarely been seen after his death.

On view will be early studies (1930s–early 1940s), studies for Albers’s Adobe series, inspired by Mexican architecture (1940s–early 1950s), and studies for Homage to the Square (1950s–1970s). These vibrant sketches provide insights into the artist’s working process and, in contrast with the austerity and strict geometry of the final paintings, are remarkable for their freedom and sensuality.

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Acetobacter aceti bacteria are a widespread group of gram-negative, obligate aerobic rods which oxidize ethanol (alcohol) into ethanoic (acetic) acid. They occur mainly in sugary, acidic and/or alcoholic habitats and they play a positive, neutral, or detrimental role in foods and beverages. They are benign, non-pathogenic microorganisms ubiquitous in the environment, particularly in alcoholic ecological niches such as flowers, fruits, fruit flies, honey bees, and also in water and soil. They are generally found as spoilage organisms in alcoholic beverages. A. aceti has a long history of safe use in the fermentation industry for the production of acetic acid (vinegar) from alcohol. Acetic acid bacteria are classified into the genera Acetobacter, Gluconacetobacter, Gluconobacter, Acidomonas, and the recently described genus Asaia.

Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus casei from a probiotic soy protein preparation advertizing the presence of 50 billion live cells. The lactobacilli were grown as colonies on an agar gel plate to remove the interference from the soy proteins. L. acidophilus has long cells whereas L. casei has short curved cells (shown in yellow). Lactobacilli are probiotic lactic acid bacteria, the presence of which protect humans from some bacterial pathogens.

Iela Mari: The World Through a Lens, Babalibri, Milano, 2010 
(Italian and English language)

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