Tag: Lampoon Issue 33
Metamorphosis as fracture: Alexandra Alvarez Garcia for Lampoon MECCANO
From Kafka to the mechanical body, identity dissolves into systems of labor, alienation, and constructed selfhood – where the body becomes a site of tension between control and collapse
Motors, fish and minor disasters: Yuko Mohri scales technology
From feather dusters to magnetic fields, Yuko Mohri rewires everyday objects into unstable systems where error generates knowledge and technology returns to human scale
Xiao Yang Bure and the post-human body: a ‘metal’ Manifesto
Model, content creator, and emerging figure in the Chinese aesthetic scene, Xiao Yang Bure turns her prosthesis into a radical fashion system
Smartphone interaction and the erosion of boredom: we look for the pause
We were promised tools to free our time. Instead, today we surrender the only hours that are truly ours — the empty ones. Leonie Volk for Lampoon MECCANO
The system we live in was never built for the four cycles women go through
Arale Reartes for Lampoon MECCANO – four hormonal phases as mechanical states, between self-portrait and still life, against a model of linear productivity
Pietro Porcinai, 1,300 landscape projects: a reportage from Oasi Zegna
In Oasi Zegna, between the 1950s and 1970s, architect and agronomist Pietro Porcinai developed a territorial system for the Zegna family, integrating gardens, industry, forests, and monuments
Amalia Ulman: humor as revenge, cinema as class warfare
From Web 1.0 irony to noir-inflected filmmaking, Amalia Ulman rejects poverty porn, questions AI hysteria, and defends humor as a survival tool
Looking closely: Chiara Yiontis draws circles without a plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life. Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
Uzbekistan: some Soviet Modernism is leading creativity worldwide
From Timurid empires to Cold War metros, from mud-brick labyrinths to solar furnaces: how Uzbekistan is turning heritage, brutalism and contemporary art into a new geopolitical and aesthetic statement
Nick Knight working on the latest Tiffany & Co. collections for Lampoon Meccano
SHOWstudio, London - Nick Knight interprets Tiffany collections portraying Hunter Piferc and conceptually connecting body, structure, and surface – this Lampoon’s MECCANO issue
Loro Piana Extra Bag by Adrien Dubost: scale without redesign
Shot for Lampoon Meccano, Adrien Dubost places the Extra Bag in an industrial set, isolating its form among steel structures and reflective surfaces to test proportion, material, and construction
Amateur bodies escape the economy of perfection
Spyros Rennt's images for Lampoon Meccano trace an analog, unguarded intimacy of bodies — and open a reflection on amateur desire and what happens when the spectacle breaks
The Back Studio, industrial scrap for the hottest lamps around
Neon bends, aluminum scratches, glass suspends: The Back Studio’s work lives in the tension between mechanical precision and raw imperfection. An interview with Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor
Goshka Macuga: when systems work too well power takes over
“Growing up with nothing trained me to build everything” – Goshka Macuga on memory, archives, AI, and why systems become dangerous when efficiency starts to override human truth
The loudspeaker as machine: Erwann Petersen and the mechanics of sound
From early electromagnetic experiments to Transparent’s exposed systems, the loudspeaker shifts from hidden function to visible structure, staged as object and evidence
Nick Knight shoots Tiffany for Lampoon MECCANO: why jewelry works like engineering
A dock chain cast in 18k gold, a knot that holds what words can't, a cuff shaped on bone. Nick Knight shoots three of Tiffany collections built like a machine...
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
The Beautiful Fall: Meccano of rivalry, calibrated to fail
A story by photographer Eva Baales for Lampoon MECCANO becomes an occasion to reflect on downfall – From Onassis to Lagerfeld, from Callas to Jackie, love turns into leverage
