Editorial Team
End-of-life materials: the case of Rester recovery fiber plant
Rester’s recovered fiber plant might not have created 100% biodegradable fibers for every fiber type it produces, but it has prolonged the life of textile and lessen its emissions
Put down your phone and go for a walk – Jana Sojka, childhood, adulthood
«Dusk is my favorite moment and it seems like the earth starts to take deep breaths after a long and busy day» – Jana Sojka’s night tales
Lezioni di umanità: imparando dagli indigeni dell’Amazzonia, e dalle formiche
La nuova terra nasce quando tutto sembra perduto: «Le crisi, le perdite sono spesso il sentore di un cambiamento. È il momento di un salto evolutivo» - il nuovo romanzo...
Rolex Mentor and Protégé – what does it mean ‘cross-generational interaction’ ?
The Rolex Mentor and Protégé initiative was set up to make a contribution to global culture: international artists take part in a one-to-one mentoring relationship by artistic masters
Tre storie d’amore: Salinger e O’Neill, Kokoschka e Mahler, Chanel e Stravinsky
Non divennero mai famiglie, non ebbero mai figli, ma questi tre amori interrotti e sofferti ispirarono la storia della letteratura, dell’arte e della moda
Arses, spitting, domestic appliances. Bruto Fanzine and its obsession with the archives
In a digital society, can paper be the bulwark of free circulation of images? Bruto fanzine – a story of obsessions and theft of internet domains
Lampoon Archive: Annie Collinge – some Gucci sneakers to play the old game
Using props and staging, the British photographer Annie Collinge creates scenes that seem to come straight out of a fairytale. Annie delivered Lampoon’s irony to Gucci Tennis 1977
Aldo Rossi: disegni e sperimentazioni di un architetto che resta attuale
‘Disegni fatti male’: i più espressivi, quelli eseguiti durante una telefonata, quando usciva dal modo della perfezione e dell’applicazione – Vittorio Savi su Aldo Rossi. L'eredità di Aldo Rossi, interviene...
Estate in Versilia, estate a Capri: le case vacanza di Piero Bottoni
Piero Bottoni ambisce ad assicurare una casa per le vacanze a tutti i lavoratori, senza abbassare la qualità formale degli insediamenti e valorizzando il paesaggio
Rasmussen and Kristensen: «We like to stick our high heels into the dark mud»
Matilde Søes Rasmussen and Marie Flarup Kristensen. The offspring of an artistic collaboration where care, trust, and an interest in mythic female existences are all elements
Iwantja Rock n Roll The work of three artists from Aboriginal Australian communities
Vincent Namatjira, Kaylene Whiskey, Tiger Yaltangki: Aboriginal Australian communities to produce commentary yielding humor, irony, depth, and re-contextualization
Essere radicali e verticali – come distinguersi nel mondo dell’editoria
«La nostra natura più coatta è il retaggio della cultura locale, di una periferia continuiamo a frequentare». A Roma, un osservatorio della cultura globale – Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti racconta gli...
Smisurata – Un invito a riflettere sul desiderio di confrontarsi con progetti al limite
Iuav Graduation Show 2022, allo Stadio Penzo, «a Sant’Elena, in quella parte di Venezia che si aggancia ai giardini de La Biennale ed è a una sola fermata dal Lido:...
Cos’è la solastalgia? Lo spiega Laura Pugno con Over Time
Neve artificiale – il tentativo di riprodurre ciò che abbiamo perso. Il progetto Over Time, vincitore della IX edizione di Italian Council, analizza il rapporto tra la neve e l’essere...
No more synthetics fibers – removing carbon and plastics from fashion
Desynthesizing fashion: old materials from natural and animal fibers may be the answer at scale to replacing synthetic fibers
Maison Dior takes the enhancement of Venetian heritage quite seriously
It was 2020 when Dior covered the facade of the Correr Museum with a cascade of gold created by Fabrizio Plessi. This year, the French house continues to invest in...
Dialogo tra un collezionista anonimo e Caterina Riva, Macte
Il collezionista che ha deciso di concedere in prestito le opere della sua collezione privata per realizzare L’ESCA, ha assistito a diverse edizioni del Premio Termoli
Joe Cruz – An archival research project of Fragmented and saturated ironic pictures
A graphic study of 'Crufts' the largest dog show in the world, focusing on the owners and their relationship to their dogs. The work of Joe Cruz is a online...
Words that roll, that creep, that ring – Tom Biddulph’s hide and seek
A poem made of words that have been cut from the world and glued into a poem. Inspired by the Dadaists' cut-up poetry and pictures stolen from ordinary life
‘Miss Italia’ – Sofia Blu Cremaschi works on body-shame and body-acceptance
«You have to lose weight» people used to say to Ludovica; but she did the opposite. Sofia Blu Cremaschi's photographs tell the battle of model Ludovica for self-determination of the...
Tante donne alle scuole di fotografia, ancora poche nelle mostre
il tema della Biennale della Fotografia Femminile di Mantova è Legacy – «una sequenza dilatata nel tempo: ciò con cui nasco e come lo vivo, e come lo trasformo o...
Lampoon/ Polo Ralph Lauren. The bourgeois codes that we dismantled, and that we now want back
Ralph Lauren was not the first to associate this shirt with the name of the sport, but he changed its semantics. In English, Ralph Lauren elevated the ‘Polo' shirt from...
Bellezza fragile: il vetro corre ogni giorno il pericolo dell’epilogo
Pur nella gracilità, il vetro è fondativo di una memoria, permane nell’eredità storica e intellettuale delle famiglie e nei desiderata dei collezionisti, amatoriali o atletici investitori
Acceptance, intrusion, exposure, vulnerability. Javier Ruiz’s experiment
«Thirty individuals interact with an environment they have never been in before, finding themselves in a new situation where it is easy to feel vulnerable» – photographer Javier Ruiz for...
‘Sweet voyeur’ is an incubator of love – two people making sex and existence like a pulse
From their home-studio in Milan, photographers Armando Bruno and Mauro Maglione explore voyeurism and the ‘invasiveness’ of the camera
Jonathan Arundel, postcards from South East England coast – London seems a million miles away
Photographer Jonathan Arundel set his documentary story inspired by the unusual South Coast of England. Images that fade into the humidity of the sea and a time that seems to...
Alex Black – a catalog of unearned Montreal’s nooks, crannies and talents
A duplication of imagery and scale acts as a means of equating the objects and the subjects. A collection of Montreal's creativity overlooked by the international fashion industry – Alex...
Musings on porcelain. Ginori’s history and manufacturing facility. Between poetry and powder
From Ginori’s manufacturing facility, exploring the creation of an artisanal product between poetry and powder, and insects over errors
Lampoon, the Transparency issue – Rasmus Weng Karlsen: we are humans, not numbers
«Transparent can also be just another way of saying one's true self, displaying all those things that are usually hidden behind the two-way mirror of one's life» – Rasmus Weng...
Lampoon, Pascale Arnaud. Diversity representation and deconstruction of genders
Breaking the barriers between genders' representations to stir up trouble shows that femininity and masculinity are exchangeable and shareable
Intimacy, liquidity, and clarity. Roberto Patella’s recipe
Roberto Patella's work echoes the socially critical message of the book 'Generation Me', namely why today's youth are more confident, assertive, entitled, and unhappier than ever before
Once designed as a green district, now is a space where nature proliferated due to neglect
In Franzolini's work, there is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of humans and the benefits of their absence. A landscape that appears unseemly to us is an opportunity...
Connecting the circle of womanhood with bags
Styphalia is a marshy lake in Greece. It is situated on a plateau at the southern foot of Mount Cyllene. Here, Ria Mort recreates an ancestral circle
Estrarre CBD: da pratica artigianale a produzione industriale
Con il mercato della cannabis in espansione sono nate tecnologie che permettono di estrarre i principi attivi attraverso processi a basso impatto ambientale. Il caso Herbolea Biotech
Fantasy, myth, dream, aspiration, illusion. Menelik Puryear shuffles some visionary assets
A silent performance, a theatrical act without a script, a dreamscape of bodies floating on the stage of life. Menelik Puryear and the dream as satisfaction of unconscious desire
Trent’anni d’arte, da Trieste a Venezia, passando per Torino e Madrid
«Le rubavano, i baristi le vendevano sottobanco. Nel 1994 furono messe in commercio: la prima collezione fu firmata Sandro Chia». Carlo Bach racconta le illy Art Collection e la mostra...
Louis de Roffignac: Objects on photosensitive paper
To explore transparency, Louis de Roffignac opted for neutral backgrounds and played around with colored gelatins. The layering of colors allows for variations of the different shades of transparency
Changing Markets – deft marketing tricks mask the truth on synthetic fibers
Extracted, refined into petrochemicals, and processed into plastic. Fossil fuels are spun into synthetic fibers– over seventy percent of all fiber production
Flowers, snails, and sea stars. Ruggiero Cafagna playing with some hermaphrodite things
A mix of portraits, documentary, and fashion developed on humanist realism expressed in a raw aesthetic, showing the sensibilities, fragilities, sensuality, and positive feelings
3standardstoppage, New York / Beijing. Piercing the art bubble and evolving past standards
3standardstoppage breaks through the existing methodologies of art, design, and fashion and builds a bridge of dialogue between the United States and China
Jin Jia Ji: The cracks in the rock
«I want to show the alienated but intimate relationship between human beings and nature, and the tenacious vitality shown by the combination of them» – Jin Jia Ji for Lampoon
Stolen moments are out of reach because of the hectic pace of our lives – Alba Yruela
The attachment to the environment is evidenced by the references to the earth and its plastic qualities. A diary from Spain: mud, transparencies and blades of light
Florence Mann and the fictional modern mermaid
Our main focus was water – we wanted to present the relationship between humans and water, as well as explore water in different states by the sea as well as...
Marie Tomanova drops the incendiary femininity of cyber provocateurs cumgirl8
Marie Tomanova for Lampoon – the Transparency Issue: «I wanted to photograph the badass musicians of punk band CUMGIRL8. We kept it real. Honest. We peeked into their universe»
How can there be such an abundance of seafood so readily available? The Tronchetto market in Venice
Despite attentive regulations, fish markets across Europe are more fully stocked than ever, creating a false sense of abundance in the minds of consumers
Dematerialization of architecture in the forms of the Bocconi campus in Milan – Filippo Ferrarese
«At night, the Bocconi campus was wrapped with wire mesh but, during the night, this casing disappeared. It became possible to see inside»
