Illustrated guide to the world's coolest literary cafés
@ Galleria Nuages, Milano
Art & Design
October 15th, 2015
October 15th, 2015
From October 14th to the 31st the Galleria Nuages in Milan hosts Barfly, an exhibition by Giancarlo Ascari, Cristina Taverna and Arianna Vairo dedicated to literary cafés, meeting places for writers and artists extremely popular in the 19th century, seen through the eyes of some Italian and international artists of our times.
Among them Milton Glaser, Ugo La Pietra, Alicia Baladan, Elf, Paul Bacilieri, Beppe Giacobbe, Jose Munoz and Olimpia Zagnoli. The artists have created images inspired by those places and the characters that used to attend them: from the Bar El Floridita in Cuba with Hemingway, to the iconic Bar Jamaica of Brera in the heart of Milan, from the Café de Flore in Paris to the Café Central in Vienna, where you could easily meet Sigmund Freud.
For the occasion Nuages has published Barfly, a volume that collects the images of the exhibition accompanied by a small guide to the most famous literary cafés and bars worldwide.
