Interviews
In the spiral circus of Parisian social scene with Lukas Ionesco
Spiral Circus is a five-track EP that bears the influence of the 60s Beach Boys – Beatles sounding – «my music is like a rusty cranked merry-go-round» recounts Lukas Ionesco
Beyond archiving gay magazines: Cowboy Frank and gay rodeos
An archivist preserving the images of men in leather, harness, fake uniforms, and bare bodies – Frank Harrell educates present readers on the queer landscape
Ortigia Sound System – the island’s renovation and the Tropicalization of the Mediterranean
How has the island of Ortigia in Sicily changed thanks to a redevelopment plan and the birth of both cultural projects, headed by the Ortigia Sound System? A reportage
Collecting memories and film tickets: Jim Longden’s path to filmmaking
British 23-year-old filmmaker and director Jim Longden about humor and his Chronicles of a Tumour: «I thought if I’m going to die, at least I could have a legendary final...
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
«As a kid, I was into animatronics and wooden things» recalls Bethan Laura Wood
A Mexico residency for British designer Bethan Laura Wood: «It's brutalist architecture, but it also has a big conversation with the pre-Hispanic architectural detailing»
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
Objects of Common Interest: design is halfway between ephemeral and concrete
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are the creative minds behind the design duo Objects of Common Interest: Milan Design Week, Poikilos at Nilufar Depot
Quira: an insight into contemporary femininity through the materiality of clothes
Veronica Leoni, finalist at the LVMH Prize 2023, recounts herself and her brand Quira through the names of the people and places that have defined her path
In conversation with Jayden Elijah: «I was a quiet kid, well that’s what my mom says»
Currently seen starring in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees newest TV show, Saint X, Jayden Elijah, opens up to Lampoon digital edition
Green is burning: Andriu Deplazes’ first Italian solo show at Collezione Maramotti
When something is burning it recalls us that «we are closer to the actual war that is happening now than we think we are», explains Deplazes about his exhibition
Design and humankind: Marcel Wanders, the AI speculation in Milano with Moooi
«We are a design company, not a styling company», a talk with Marcel Wanders and the EveryHuman's Algorithmic Perfumery, a project for Moooi
Tearing down love from its pedestal — introducing Ryder The Eagle
In conversation with French singer Ryder The Eagle, for the release of his newest album Megachurch: Tearing down love from its pedestal while keeping faith in life and music
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...
Being a duo but individual collections: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
For the first time in more than twenty years of career, by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec presents two separate collections for Flos at Euroluce 2023
Fosbury Architecture, decentralizing spaces: Everyone Belongs to everyone else
Fosbury Architecture, a collective curating the 18th Venice Biennale, challenges the norms of the exhibition., «pushing people to go outside the outskirts of the Biennale»
SpazioSerra and Virginia Dal Magro – the undefined movement of traces and spaces
«It can become a concept of above and below, of visible and invisible, of natural and artificial». Observing the gap in between and the threshold in creation
Fabio Quaranta: what happens in the post-menswear era?
Fabio Quaranta: interdisciplinary collective instead of fashion brands, archives instead of collections - «I felt the need to lose the authorial, individual aspect»
«To catch an idea you need to go primitive»: a conversation with Guglielmo Poletti
Spring Studio introduces Guglielmo Poletti's work. The designer aims to display style as a derivation of structure. Construction becomes a meaningful aesthetic
From technology and transhumanism to creating tribes: Roberto Rigon’s graphic niche
What to expect from creative merging with artificial intelligence? A conversation with Roberto Rigon, the creative director that already uses it in editorial design
Naomi Accardi: a niche that involves football and fashion
«I also feel compelled that the time has come to allow others to have a voice» Naomi Accardi traces a path for sports and fashion storytellers
Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana: Apacheta, stone towers to mark your path
Through the Apacheta at Milan Design Week 2023, Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana form a union rooted in Argentina, Territorio Hibrido
Kiko Kostadinov and his take on Kazuhide Takahama for MDW
Though it’s not his first attempt at interior design, «the challenging part was working with pre-existing timeless pieces», said Kiko Kostadinov to Lampoon
The revolution in Iran where poetry takes part – Bita Malakuti speaks of Islamic womanhood
To speak about your country when you can't speak about your lover's body. Before leaving Iran, Malakuti faced censorship as much as appreciation as a theater critic
Italian emerging music scene – Ethan: «I refuse to be just one thing»
Ethan Lara opens up about his past and future aspirations, from his search for identity to the achievement of a new musical and personal maturity in a story by Clotilde...
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
Massimiliano Fuksas: «both the cities and the stadiums should be redesigned»
«Stadiums are elements completely detached from the cities. They should live each day and each week of the year» Massimiliano Fuksas reflects on sport buildings
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» –...
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»
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
Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Dan Rubinstein for Lampoon Issue 27 – manipulation of perspective
For Lampoon Issue 27, The RuVido Issue, Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Dan Rubinstein reflect on looking at bodies in a non-white way, queer representation and the meaning of raw
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
The praise of the delirium and the abnormal – Gelitin for Lampoon 27
The Gelatins by DNA are immersed in the world of subculture and subordinates. They are under the surface, exploring what to bring up to Earth
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...
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
Canali: «creating a suit or a jacket is like making pieces of anatomy»
Stefano Canali on the history of the family, the factory and the years he spent there as a child, as well as the priority he was taught to always give...
Interview with Yoshiyuki Miyamae: from Japan, fashion in Paris, design in Milan
Much more than a fashion brand, A-POC ABLE sets out to weave the future by engaging different creative minds and professionals in collaborative projects and multidisciplinary conversations
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...
Nothing is gendered anymore, for the sake of good design: Cartier Libre
Marie-Laure Cérède, Creative Director of Jewelry & Watchmaking and Pierre Rainero, Director of Heritage, Image and converse with Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief, for Lampoon Issue 27
Black Palermo, White Palermo – a Sicilian story with Vanessa Beecroft
Palazzo Abatellis played host to VB94, a performance by Vanessa Beecroft: hieratic movement between statues and models dressed in white created in her Los Angeles studio
Fast fashion is out of fashion – is capitalism eventually going to collapse?
«Most people don't realize that the capitalist model we’re living in is a construct, it’s a man-made system» Dr. Hakan Karaosman and Professor Donna Marshall
Shooting the war as part of daily life – Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Rupeta
In conversation with Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Rupeta, as he navigates daily life in Ukraine, his reaction to the war and the fragility of civilization
Arden presents Iván Pellicer in Secret Softness for Lampoon digital edition
Arden Queardan is a NewYork/Madrid-based Galician publicist who started out in the world of photography with innocent spontaneity: shooting actor Iván Pellicer
The rawness of Maximilian Raynor’s practice through his residency in Woolwich
«It’s a make do and mend mentality, an ad hoc way of working, of finding materials - taping together rather than sewing. It’s that crafty, Nineteen Eighties approach to fashion»,...
Psychedelic, hypnotic: the all-consuming screens of Yuri Ancarani’s Atlantide 2017-2023
In conversation with Italian video-maker Yuri Ancarani, as he navigates modern-day Venice, the push and pull relationship with nature, and loneliness
Liao Wen: wooden sculptures to investigate the human body and its complexity
Liao Wen for Bodies and Souls, a group exhibition for Cassina Projects curated by Manuela Lietti and in collaboration with Capsule Shanghai
Hillary Taymour, founder of Collina Strada – «It’s just fun. I just try to make it not fucking boring»
From sustainability to climate change, to self-love and self-preservation, acting as a barometer of the world’s current political, social and economical situation. «We don’t shove values down anyone’s throat»
