Interviews
Ethics and technology: the art of restoration according to Isabella Villafranca Soissons
The director of the Conservation and restoration department of Open Care expounds the technical, methodological and ethical issues restorers have to deal with when restoring a contemporary artwork
Leiko Ikemura’s evocative imaginary: cosmic landscapes and hybrid figures
Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura showing in-between creatures and possibilities of representation of self in Riding The Waves at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp
Dustin Yellin and the Anthropocene in motion: «Students should learn about Frank O’Hara and Jesus»
The Descriptive, Prescriptive and Impossible: to tear down distinction between art and science - Dustin Yellin taps into societal issues: «What I do is make a trail through the woods»
Franz Egon von Fürstenberg – when images are «an element of the collective confidence»
Images of life and work alongside portraits of contemporary artists. Photographing art becomes the recollection of a creative tribe manifestation
«I was a listener as a kid» – Jim-E Stack on the creative journey behind his career
The producer discusses his music, letting his intuition do the work and following what feels good «It was never a genre, or artist, it was whatever made me feel something»
Unwrapping the inclusion emergency in fashion magazines with Janice Deul
For the 2022 edition of IED Factory, students have to imagine the magazine of the future. Self-representation and diversity are indisposable
Disrupting the fast-fashion industry: one garment at a time – Daniella Samper and Elias Stahl
Here are two visions of the future where fashion retailers say ‘no’ to deadstock, and produce only what customers need
Do opposites attract? Dior’s heritage tuned into Los Angeles streetwear aesthetic along with ERL
Artistic director Kim Jones taps into Dior’s archive going back to the early 90s when the Resort 2023 guest designer Eli Russell Linnetz was born
A spiral glass pavilion hosts over three hundred timepieces: Audemars Piguet, Musée Atelier
The museum opened in June 2020 was designed by BIG studio as an extension of the historic headquarters of the famous Swiss wristwatch manufacturer Audemars Piguet
Lorenzo Vitturi’s art blurs the line between reality and fiction through hybrid creations
Creating new meaning through art «My work is a continuous research, combining elements that could not coexist in the real world due to nature or geography»
From Accra to London – James Barnor captures societies under transition in six-decade career
From Ghana’s independence to London’s transformation into a multicultural hub, Barnor’s photography tells the story of societies through people in the studio and on the streets
«With Instagram, everybody has the patience of five-seconds» – Sasha Frolova on creative industry
«I've never wanted my photography to be controlled by industry because of my emotional attachment to it. I don't want to shoot for the sake of shooting. I want to...
Sergio Mottola, Public Pressure – Fostering the artist-fan relationship through NFTs
«NFTs disrupted the world of creativity as MTV disrupted that of music, when people realized that music videos could open the music industry to a new world of marketing, positioning...
Understanding the present day using the scientific discoveries of the past: Benjamin Labatut
Benjamin Labatut discusses why he believes we have ceased to understand the world and what twentieth century scientists can still teach us
When the recycling of wood and the concept of protection collides: Tadashi Kawamata
A conversation with the artist around the concept of protection from shelters, the recycling of planks of wood and the collaboration with the students from Brera Academy of Fine Arts
Subliminal youth and the quest for freedom – reviewing: Marie Tomanova’s photography book
New York, New York, the city, the people. Marie Tomanova introduces her work at W hotel in Rome. «It’s about the connection with the person you’re looking at»
Nikola Uzunovski – the Macedonian artist prompts a dialogue between man and his surrounding environment
I travelled from Italy to the Meteorology Department at the University of Helsinki in Finland to study the arctic climate, its temperature, wind speed and humidity, to understand which materials...
The Japanese expression pika pika is the mantra for ceramist Yuko Nishikwa
The work of Brooklyn based ceramicist Yuko Nishikwa is guided by the Japanese onomatopoeia ‘pika pika’, calling «a reaction that moves the observer. This industry has quality»
In conversation with McArthur Binion: «my work is tremendously about hands»
«The hesitation is in the way I speak». American artist McArthur Binion challenges Minimalism art history by layering personal objects behind geometric grids
Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima
«We recognie design processes to have an effect and determination, a form of transparency. I am a globalist when it comes to ideas» – Joseph Grima in conversation with Formafantasma
‘Why Beauty Matters’ – Stefan Sagmeister balances philosophy with scientific research
«If you don’t like the term Beauty, you could replace it with intentional form». The graphic designer argues for the inclusion of Beauty in academic discourse
A nomadic childhood, opera and The Alan Parsons Project: Alice Merton’s roots
Berlin-based singer-songwriter, Alice Merton opens up about her musical influences, life after releasing her debut single
No One You Know, a short movie by the artist Danijel Žeželj for C’mon Tigre new release
Mixing sounds and rhythms from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, C'mon Tigre and Croatian cartoonist Danijel Žeželj tells us stories of humanity and nude reality
Vincenzo Palazzo, Vìen: «freedom emerges as a beautiful outrage to social entrapment»
«Vìen it's a clash» – Blending London, punk parties and underground music. What it is like to be an underground brand according to Vincenzo Palazzo
Lampoon 23 / Transition: to define where we are today
Take it for granted, no excuse: nothing will be ever the same as it was before. It’s a moment of transition. This is a moment of transfer from a rejected...
History of Night and Destiny of Comets, Gian Maria Tosatti – from a provincial to an urban asset
In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment
Liliane Lijn – 1969 to the present. «Diversity is what makes us more equal»
Born in New York City in 1939, Liliane Lijn moved to Europe in 1958: «there is a kind of coherence between what I did then and what I do today».
Queer intimacy and female nudity, a defiant body of work by artist Jenna Gribbon
«The idea is to make the viewer conscious of the fact that they are consuming an image of a body which belongs to a person – they are no longer...
Studio Sarmite: Harvesting, producing, designing pine skin leather through bark
«I extract the bark on my own and it's not regularly harvested either. The final product ranges from earthy brown to pink to deep terracotta colors with a scent of...
Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention
Monster derives from the Latin monstrare, to demonstrate. Dr. Michel’s methodology explores this notion of bringing forward shared realities of others and being transparent
Pushing Bauxite Residue, a.k.a. red mud further into architectural industries – Studio ThusThat
Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury: The challenge to change the perception of red mud to consider it a potential sustainable resource
Blurring boundaries of identification through a multilayered artistic practice – Jesper Just
«I approach an image from several possible angles so to challenge the museum’s audience» — a conversation with Danish multimedia artist Jesper Just
«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann
Visual artists David Spriggs and Regine Schumann discuss the role of transparency, both in its physicality and concept: fFrom material, to object, to luminance constraints
«Either you have it, or you do not» – Sofia Tchkonia on Georgian fashion’s future
«They are not afraid of what they want to do ». A city between Eastern, Western and Soviet influences fosters the new generation of designers
Capturing chaos on unprimed linen. The lysergic still life canvas of Pedro Pedro, California
«Online everything becomes flat, which is how many people consume art today and I think my paintings work well seen via the digital». Bringing back the still life for digital...
Forget the shock: pastel colors by Sébastien Notre – an inner urge that it’s not traumatizing
«I don't want to do things to shock people». Soft is often a synonymous of weak. Pastel colors allow the artist to show the contrast between strong images and soft...
Homosexual militancy in Italy during the Seventies: Nicola Di Benedetto performing Mario Mieli
From illustration to performances, from sculpture to acting: Nicola Di Benedetto – «We were all staging the Seventies and we all were acting»
Markus Friedrich Staab: lifting chairs out of the mundane, design is about having fun
Embracing fun as a design philosophy. From Dadaism to Josef Albers, Markus Friedrich Staab reimagines his functional art pieces
Mai-Thu Perret – from an all-female commune in New Mexico to a statue of Minerva in Rome
«I have been thinking about sculpture, statuary and the representations of the human figure in antiquity». Mai-Thu Perret’s exhibition at Istituto Svizzero in Rome
Street style becomes a uniform for climate change, inspired by death
Defining Fictional streetwear: using ‘dead stuff’ and making it into something new, reimagining these materials in their own image – the idea of death runs through the entire project
Humor and paradox – irony and irreverence in the Italian contemporary art scene
Italian contemporary artist Daniele Sigalot plays with aluminium and other artistic mediums to create a sense of disorientation in the mind of the observer
Half a century of queer history. Stanley Stellar’s street photography and a marginalized community
«We've been portrayed as degenerates or clowns, or sinners, never human. I knew I was recording something that never existed before, and that was freedom of us and acceptance of...
Adiel’s techno music: Human connections are the core of Italian DJ and producer
From spinning discs in a local club in Rome to storming Berghain, Italian DJ Adiel talks about her techno music production
When plastic cannot be enough complicated, you start using ceramic: the case of Diego Cibelli
A journey through the artistic production of the Neapolitan artist Diego Cibelli, who manipulates the daily life objects to reveal their endless meanings
Flash Art – the avant-garde community edited by Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo
The wave of art radicalism in the 1960s founded a publication, a bulletin of information transformed into a journal of art literature and research: Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo
How architecture on an urban scale has been weaponized against people and protesters
Griffin Frazen on data visualization, 3D modelling and «using architectural thinking and technical skills to help people understand protests from a spacial perspective»
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon blending plastic bottle with Bogota’s craftmanship
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon creates PET lamps: he could be considered a precursor of sustainable design bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship
