Lampoon/ Transition – an attempt to make daily life interesting again

«The series was shot exactly one year after the first lockdown in the same flat I lived it in» reflections on Alexandre Haefeli’s photoshoot

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Lampoon/ Transition – Rèverbères: street lamps in Paris by Romain Laprade

«Even if nobody cares about street lamps, if we isolate them, when we can see that there are real pieces of design»

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Una visita alla regina Elena di Savoia

Nel percorrere il corridoio del primo piano, il suo aspetto normale pare trasfigurarsi: quale, fra tante, sarà la porta della Regina?

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Lampoon/ Transition – Gender Identity, Sexuality and Fluidity

Masculinity in femininity balances the coping mechanisms, femininity in masculinity promotes wisdom: Marie Tomanova photography taps into androgyny

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Obscene acts in a private space: gestures of a standard affair in a sunny afternoon

We want sex more than ever: an age of over exposure, the private versus the public – the obscene is the only fascination that still stands

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The Italian craftsmanship: new opportunities through e-commerce platforms

Mirta Retail deals with the distribution and sale of Italian handicraft products: the founders Ciro di Lanno and Martina Capriotti talk about it

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Apology of a hat – we define slow fashion when we decide what to wear

Pardo Hats aims to defend the value of slow fashion and to keep a distance from the fake charm of what’s instantaneous: image reference and a short introduction of Sol Pardo

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Goppion — a Northern Italian network of craftsmen and co-makers

Whenever a high-value work is encased in a refined glass structure at a museum — freestanding, wall-standing, wall-mounted, or recessed — it is likely that Goppion is behind it

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Milano 1959 – un articolo di 60 anni fa parla della situazione di oggi

Un antico articolo di giornale si rivela attuale – un architetto parla dello sventramento della città, e si pone la domanda sulla tutela dei monumenti e del verde urbano

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Retrofuturism in Lebanon: David/Nicolas’s own personal nostalgia in Milan

Architects duo takes references from a Daft Punk’s album. «That futurist sound which is how we work. We are searching for the aesthetic of Milan

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Monte Amiata – «It’s not an S, on my world it means hope»

Photographer Amanda Charchian on how «I discovered that through the camera I had unique access to the creative women around me»

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No rules in love, but condoms: there should be no limit to sexual experimentation

The condom series – make love with whoever you want: an invitation to be promiscuous whenever you want, but always kind. Four writers, four stories, about sex

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Guizio, the right time – craftsmanship is the soul of your garment

It is a period of reflection and relates to aesthetics, taking place before considering the restraints of production. In conversation with Danielle Guizio

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Magnifico revising the word – a man is magnificent in misery and humiliation

No one ever loved a man sitting on his throne, detached from the earth, soaked in his clouds – Nick Knight defining Magnifico mastering his art and photography

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Lars Brønseth captures all in blue life scenes

«The cobalt blue has been my color. I’m not sure when it happened. It seems to catch my attention whenever it’s within sight. It’s the starting point where textures merge»

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Ode to Wallis – You can conquer the entire world, but all victory leads to defeat

The oldest fairy tale: a king who dreamed of becoming a servant and a servant who dreamed of becoming queen – a visual story by Charlotte Abramow

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In London, teaching red and blue to the ones who speak in black and white

In a blue-sky day, the British attitude meet some Italian sartorial lines: Aziza Vasco performs energies shooting the Canali tailored collection – if you say casual, it cannot be standard

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A plastic cage to narrate some transformation process – photography Mehdi Sef

Analogies, not metaphors: a bubble, a plastic envelope, a direct hit to the senses – exploring disconnection, detachment and self-isolation in this modern world that we keep on loving

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Sean Suen, Beijing – grey apology: over us a day gloomier than the night

«Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle sur l’esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis». Solitary individuals, self-restriction, exhausted state and some poetry in it

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Adrien Dubost – Are we willing to use intelligence? Collages going vertical

Even more aware of the fragility of our species: we have been fragile in our technocratic ambitions to rule, we have been fragile in our intellectual ability to make predictions

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A solar system on your fingers – Baracuta as seen by Marlon Rueberg

We are all well-functioning machines. Cardboard wings and carton arms, pretense games, becoming an Icarus, a human giant or just a dream breaker – some British references and legacies

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Domino Leaha – some archive images shot in Aldgate East, and in Brooklyn

A collection about Melanie: I have taken many pictures of over the last few years – about missing someone during a quarantine, to understand that there is no past only future

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Creation/Destruction – her hair play like tree branches: visual art by Stas May

Collage and collide: a research that drives to the intersection of nature and man, fragments of color, fragments of black and white – it’s a sunny morning in Brooklyn, New York City

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An artificial documentary and some attitude at Celine by Slimane – images Sebastian Lager

From old video camcorders to the first digital cameras from 2000: a bit of all – The lighting situation, the front and the back of a final image to complete a short story

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Raspa – Standardly Sunday family trip, getting lost in Italy is not a bad option

Seventies’ colors, blue skies and balloons, perspective of a family on the hills around Assisi, Perugia, Umbria. The map and the territory – as usual, the map isn’t the territory

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McNally Jackson Books, New York. Inside the Nolita indie scenario

Founded in New York in 2004 by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and daughter of Holly and Paul McNally, the owners of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers chain.

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To synthetize the universe in just one apartment: photography by Leone

Le plein et le vide: interior and exterior perceptions that change in time, leaving the body behind where once was a familiar place – You stay still for a second while I pin a flower

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Somewhere in Italy – How does the country keep on translating into images?

Portraying snippets of an Italian summer in the middle of the winter: Amanda Charchian and Ivan Olita perpetrating a collective image that stands for far more than what it is

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35mm Olympus Camera – A personal project by photographer Rubina Vita Marchiori

The London-based Italian photographer’s closeup self-portraits in a white Fendi dress immersed between the lush green and concrete of the metropolitan capital

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Lockdown tales – Marie Shuller’s mother bought a house in the South of France

In the stormy Atlantic side, a large abandoned house with the remnants of the Sixties decor turned into the setting for documentary-driven pictures

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Sonja Braas piques intrigue through an ambivalence of images in The Other Day

Throwing light on the subject of nature, the German artist reveals the upheaving cause of concern towards the conservation of our environs

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Truth is stranger than fiction in an upheaval of clothing vs. consciousness

The desire for curiosity leads to a fascination for clothing and its ability to transform a person into something much bigger than reality

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A disconnection in place and time found in the backdrop of life experiences

Brooks Shane Salzwedel paints a paradox of scenarios in a self-created process using his imagination to predict chaos in calm from the lost spaces of his memory

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Lorenzo Zandri discloses the vegetal resistance of the streets of London

PHOTOGRAPHY LORENZO ZANDRI

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A portfolio of images as a color study

The clothing pieces demand a sort of respect when they are worn, a dialogue between two coexisting bodies – human and non-human

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Amidst the valley of angular conformity lies the hallucinogenic veil of nature

Wrapped in a trip, Aaron Schuman takes a stroll down Vale 2020, a project that brings to light the face of nature in its deep enchantment

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Ovum – Curating the clash between order and disorder is the void

The warmth of the Rattan, the physical challenge of the craftsman working it, the concentration, the thought of the designer shaped by expert hands – a conjuration by Elia Bonacina

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Festival Visioni dal Mondo, Milan. The Italian capital of the documentary

In conversation with Francesco Bizzari, the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival Visioni dal Mondo, which was held online this year

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Ovum – A reminder that we are all part of mother nature

The essence of patience and its mark on the journey of life is felt through healing that comes form suffering, as one cannot exist without the other

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Ovum – Repetition turns daily rituals into that of meaning

For artist Alexander James, the recurrence of a process marks the sign of rebirth as art imitates life in his rendition of the egg

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Ovum – Scrutinising the resemblance of an egg to a lens

Paolo Bottarelli demonstrates the incarnation of the Ovum as an urn that contains its own shards dispersing the concept of internal vs external

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Opposing forms take shape as androgyny is perceived through the ‘Female Gaze’

Crossing continents, the New York based artist Ji Min Lee reveals the male form in a turn of events using dead stock materials such as pearls and crystals for hand beading textile development

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Survival of the fittest, a kaleidoscope of camouflaging expression

Artist and musician Sandra Mujinga interrogates self-representation and preservation of the ephemeral world we are living in, taking inspiration from animals

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Lee Krasner: Living Color on view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

On view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao until January 10, 2021, is Lee Krasner: Living Color, a solo retrospective of the American pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. Introduced to the press via a virtual tour on YouTube

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Huarealism, a display to captivate reality

«I am here the architect who decides whether to be a storm, or to be calm» – Alisa Gorshenina exhibits a mix of paintings, graphics, textile sculptures, video art and digital collages by using handmade, reused material

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Perrier-Jouët: Passing the torch from one cellar master to another

The transmission from one cellar master to the next is a key event for any champagne house, but for Maison Perrier-Jouët, which has had just seven cellar masters in over 200 years, it is a historic moment that comes

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Jack Johnstone x Delly Deacon – Let nature take its course, a reflection of freedom

Designer Delly Deacon tooks Photographer Jack Johnstone around the East London marches whilst she forages for numerous natural materials to make her hats.

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Maison Margiela S.W.A.L.K ‘s its way into Spring-Summer 2021 with the ‘Co-ed’ Collection

Observing the valour of the tango, the final instalment of the filmic project S.W.A.L.K demonstrates how techniques developed in the Artisanal collection are artistically industrialised for ready- to-wear

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Apartamento, an exhibition by Igor Pjörrt

Redefining gender identity and exploring the possibilities that exist beyond the binary. Apartamento nurtures the coming of age story by Igor Pjörrt

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