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William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»

In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye

Agnese Torres

the art field

Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure

Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to be a maverick thinker

Federico Jonathan Cusin

the art field

Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case

Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine

Agnese Torres

cape town, the art field

Deborah Poynton: «overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t»

Discordant objects amongst natural landscapes, nude portraits of herself, her friends and family, Deborah Poynton’s practice is about creating the illusion of reality, applying layers of oil painting

Anna Prudhomme

the art field

Marion Baruch: humans made textile before writing

The curiosity towards humanity, the desire to experiment with the unknown, fabric and movement: the Romanian textile artist talks about her latest solo show

Agnese Torres

the art field

Public cruising and orgies: Raphael Hubner’s male art is a modern Kama Sutra

The Brazilian artist draws sex positions men can perform in public and private spaces. Raphael Hubner homoerotic art outline men intimacy and sex in conservative Brazil

Editorial Team

the art field

Langston Uibel on pursuing cinema in a post-streaming landscape

Films are made in consortium. Langston Uibel discusses processes of collaboration and notions of artistic voice with the award winning actor

Isaac Crown Manesis

the art field

How Unreal We Are. SIRA cultural hub in Paris slams human fragility in viewer’s face

In the cultural hub SIRA in Paris, the nomadic curatorial project Shivers Only uses video art and analog photography to carve out human fragility and depict How Unreal We Are

Anna Prudhomme

the art field

Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new

Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration

Roberta Fabbrocino

the art field

It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable

Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts

Roberta Fabbrocino

the art field

Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»

Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South

Agnese Torres

the art field

Roses and hunter: Farshad Farzankia honors the strength of women from Iran

«I experienced pain in my family and my close relationships, people going to jail and not coming back. I was born into this chaos of uncertainty» – Farshad Farzankia on politics and movement in Iran

Anna Prudhomme

the art field

Jota Mombaça about political intersectionality and utopia as transition

Queer artist Jota Mombaça discusses her work as a radical reorientation to history and memory, allowing the elements to reveal perspectives inaccessible to people

Isaac Crown Manesis

the art field

Gurjeet Singh’s idiosyncrasy: textile sculptures respond to notions of stereotype labelism

Rural Indian subjectivity found in 3d textile sculptures. Gurjeet Singh handcrafts bold narratives of identity, isolation and sexual exploration into faces made of fabric and stuffing

Aarushi Saxena

the art field

Art, literature and activism. Ali Omar Ermes’ artwork as a tool for cultural diplomacy

Ali Omar Ermes art served as a bridge between these Libya and Europe, transcending walls of discord, and promoting a sense of mutual appreciation and respect

Elisa Russo

the art field

«People are resigned to social fatalism» – Hicham Benohoud’s work depicts Morocco

Acceptance of social fatalism. Hicham Benohoud’s images show the social abyss from which many Moroccans suffer, not in a miserabilist way but rather in a plastic or artistic way

Elisa Russo

the art field

Collaboration across borders – Magazzino Italian Art traces the contemporary Italian identity

Magazzino Italian Art – the museum’s second building, the Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, will open to the public on September 14, 2023

Editorial Team

the art field

Photography is dead, Jean-Vincent Simonet considers alternative processes

Considering the photographic aura with Jean-Vincent Simonet. The artist discusses his process involving hacked inkjet printers and experimental modes of composition

Isaac Crown Manesis

the art field

Caleb Hahne Quintana: migration and masculinity in Southwestern America

Approaching the American Southwest through a new lens of realism, the American painter considers his family history and national myth through memory-inflected paintings

Isaac Crown Manesis

the art field

Rough and primitive. Nellie Mae Rowe’s black art and the American folklore

From the cotton fields of Georgia to employment as a domestic worker at a white household, black artist Nellie Mae Rowe chronicled the feminist redemption of an African American

Editorial Team

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Samuel De Saboia – the nomadic artistic practice between material and spiritual

At the art residency Numeroventi in Florence, the Brazilian artist Samuel De Saboia talks about his artistic practice that explores sexuality, migration, and displacement

Anna Prudhomme

the art field

Gaetano Pesce: «we can’t be solid; we are as liquid as our time»

From the polyurethane of the UP series to the resins of Vieni a Vedere installation for Bottega Veneta: experimentation doesn’t need to be taught; it just has to be done

Elisa Russo

the art field

The topoi of human history – present and past in Pietro Ruffo’s work

Geographic maps and writing, geometric overlays and experimentation with different materials: the breakdown of Pietro Ruffo’s operas and career

Chiara Narciso

the art field

Art at its highest altitude. The reality of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz

Giorgia von Albertini, director of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz, on her approach to contemporary art: «the opening in December 2018 was a natural extension of the gallery’s activities in its native Switzerland»

Federico Jonathan Cusin

events, the art field

Performing the female body as a political subject – Marilisa Cosello’s 2 of 2

Questioning female body aesthetics and societal tensions: Marilisa Cosello’s 2 of 2 as a metaphor of women identity in the Italian society

Ilaria Sponda

Exhibitions, the art field

British curator Ben Broome: «Performances have the power to disrupt gallery spaces»

Art curator Ben Broome, interviewed by Lampoon, discusses his pathway to exhibition making, his passion for performances and unanswered questions

Anna Prudhomme

call to action, the art field

Art as Social Activism – Thomas Hirschhorn: «I am an artist, a worker, a soldier»

«Art is a tool. As an artist I need to see with my own eyes, think with my own brain, in all circumstances even when global events affect me» – Thomas Hirschhorn

Elisa Russo

raw materials, the art field

Psychedelia: the visual vocabulary – Lampoon the RuVido Issue with Gary Card

«My intention was to make something beautiful and classical and then figure out how do I f**k it up? Make something pretty, but layer it by inserting rawness»

Aarushi Saxena

Reggio Emilia, the art field

Europe Matters: Walter Guadagnini discusses Fotografia Europea 2023 in Reggio Emilia

The program also includes OFF circuit, the free and independent section of Fotografia Europea enriched by the initiative of individuals, galleries, associations and public and private institutions

Eugenia Pacelli

Lampoon issue 27, the art field

Body metrics and upcoming fashion currencies: Julie Pelipas and Bettter.us

«It’s kind of an ideal membrane for you to be protected, to feel confident, to collect emotions in». Julie Pelipas discusses creating a relationship with garments

Maria Hristina Agut

Madrid, the art field

Protection No Longer Assured at Colección SOLO in Madrid: an analysis on the sublime

In a present marked by disruptive technologies and disinformation, armed conflicts and environmental collapse, Protection No Longer Assured revisit the concept of the sublime

Ario Mezzolani

Lampoon issue 27, the art field

Where do mythology, archetypes, and ancestral allusions creatively hide today?

From art curating, to discovering and promoting new artists, through fashion design and music. Caio Twombly and Henrik Vibskov in conversation for Lampoon RuVido issue

Federico Jonathan Cusin

Paris, the art field, The Publishing Industry

In Paris, the Gallery Perrotin hosts artist Bernar Venet and painter Susumu Kamijo

Parisian Gallery Perrotin and bookstore, with the same name, has locations in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai, displaying world class art and merchandise

Anna Prudhomme

Berlin, the art field

Paper as an art medium – Paper Positions, Berlin: in conversation with Heinrich Carstens

Once realizing that Bikini Berlin was not suitable for large paintings or big installations, the team shifted their concept to focus on artworks made of and about one material only: paper

Giulio Polverigiani

Humanities, Lampoon issue 27, the art field

Gaspar Noé and Benoît Debie – from death and drugs to sex and grievances

«It’s all about domination, abomination, and survival of the species. People live in fear, and the worst thing that can happen to us is to die» Gaspar Noé and Benoît Debie

Matthew Burgos

Mexico City, the art field

Mexico’s cherished artists: Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Commissioned by the couple from the architect Juan O’Gorman in 1931, Diego RIvera and Frida Kahlo lived in the estate until 1934

Cristian Tonea

Mexico City, the art field

A home for art built from the ashes of a volcano: Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City

Inspired to Aztec temples, the museum hosts a permanent collection of pre-Columbian finds, temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists and a botanical garden

Debora Vitulano

Elizaveta Litovka, Lampoon Issue 20, the art field

Elizaveta Litovka: the dismissal of definitions about Modigliani

Modigliani keeps on standing out as a visual pioneer. In 2020 Elizaveta Litovka made an homage for Lampoon issue 20

Cornelia Lauf

Humanities, the art field

Nonsense saved me: interview to Simon Fujiwara on his latest show in Milan

The creator of Who the Bær: «I created a cartoon character in order not to become one myself». In Milan, the exhibition Who is Who-Dimensional? at Gió Marconi

Federico Jonathan Cusin

Milan, the art field

We have an I.D.E.A – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility: BASE Milano Design Week 2023

For the third edition of We Will Design: We have an I.D.E.A. A space for marginalized communities, when other institutions have failed to recognize them

Martina Tondo

Paris, the art field

The LVMH’s foundation pays homage to Basquiat and Warhol collaborations in Paris

Under Foundation Louis Vuitton’s spotlight: A collaboration between Basquiat and Warhol, two of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century

Anna Prudhomme

Milan, the art field

Fuorisalone and digital as a strategy: in conversation with creative director Paolo Casati

Studiolabo for Fuorisalone and Brera Design District: the e-revolution that has changed the perception of Italian design in Milan

Ilaria Sponda

Milan, the art field

5VIE, a local network in Milan with founders Ernesta Del Cogliano and Emanuele Tessarolo

The 2023 theme, Design for Good, highlights the focus on themes such as spirituality, the connection with nature, the relationship with our origins, the drama of incommunicability

Mariangela Peci

Exhibitions, the art field

The grandeur of the architecture and the encounter with Aperçues by Nina Carini

The site-specific exhibition designed by the artist dialogues with the sacredness and silence of the space of the Basilica di San Celso in Milan

Chiara Narciso

the art field

Transcending classicism – talking with Charles Ray Lampoon RUVIDO

If you are a believer you believe in God, if you are not you believe in gravitational force – the death of God is a point of departure, like a springboard for a leap, for a creative impetus

Cesare Cunaccia

Paris, the art field

Urban Art Fair and the broader ecology of art: in conversation with Yannick Boesso

Urban Art Fair was launched in 2016 in Paris by its founder Yannick Boesso. The 7th edition will take place in its native venue, Le Carreau du Temple, and open to the public on April 14, 2023

Giovanni Bartolini

Exhibitions, the art field

«Am I dreaming or awake?» – the schizophrenic work of Cinzia Ruggeri unveiled

Spell and reality by Cinzia Ruggeri. In conversation with Luca Lo Pinto, creative director of Cinzia says…, the ended exhibition at MACRO in Rome that is moving to London

Editorial Team

crafting, the art field

Kayako Oki and Samuel Yal cases: between low-tech craft and audiovisual research

There is an area of audiovisual production that has always preferred broken word, timelessness, a-logical relations and spatial alteration. A rough ode to the non-fictional production

Editorial Team

Brussels, the art field

A conversation with Nele Verhaeren, managing director of Art Brussels

For the second year, Art Brussels supports the KickCancer foundation – all proceeds from the sales will be donated to the foundation for research in order to beat childhood cancer

Mariangela Peci

Paris, the art field

Director Guilliaume Piens discusses the 25th anniversary of Art Paris with Lampoon

Two themes will be present at Art Paris: «Art & Commitment, a Focus on the French Scene», curated by Marc Donnadieu, and «Exile: Dispossession and Resistance», curated by Amanda Abi Khalil

Kaitlyn Durbin