Tag: The Art Field
«People are resigned to social fatalism» – Hicham Benohoud’s work depicts Morocco
Acceptance of social fatalism. Hicham Benohoud’s images show the social abyss from which many Moroccans suffer, not in a miserabilist way but rather in a plastic or artistic way
Collaboration across borders – Magazzino Italian Art traces the contemporary Italian identity
Magazzino Italian Art – the museum's second building, the Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, will open to the public on September 14,...
Photography is dead, Jean-Vincent Simonet considers alternative processes
Considering the photographic aura with Jean-Vincent Simonet. The artist discusses his process involving hacked inkjet printers and experimental modes of composition
Caleb Hahne Quintana: migration and masculinity in Southwestern America
Approaching the American Southwest through a new lens of realism, the American painter considers his family history and national myth through memory-inflected paintings
Rough and primitive. Nellie Mae Rowe’s black art and the American folklore
From the cotton fields of Georgia to employment as a domestic worker at a white household, black artist Nellie Mae Rowe chronicled the feminist redemption of an African American
CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen: gender imbalance discussed in the North
New director Julie Quottrup Silbermann on CHART: «We're not bringing galleries in from all over the world. We're bringing galleries in from the Nordics»
I Wish It Was Mine: the boundaries of reality are crossed, the imagination is unleashed
Ivan Moudov serves as artist and orchestrator of Alberta Pane Gallery's group exhibition I Wish It Was Mine, open to the public until July 29, 2023
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
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
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...
From Manufacturing to Sustainability: The Transformation of the Eco-Friendly COCO-MAT Lofts
Sustainable living in Cape Town: COCO-MAT Lofts were renovated by Lida and Luca Verbeeck in 2017 and has been self-sustaining since inception
In conversation with Kate Sierzputowski on the 10th anniversary of EXPO CHICAGO
Over 25 international curators attended EXPO CHICAGO this year, with new participants from Taiwan, Lithuania, and Mexico
Performing the female body as a political subject – Marilisa Cosello’s 2 of 2
Questioning female body aesthetics and societal tensions: Marilisa Cosello’s 2 of 2 as a metaphor of women identity in the Italian society
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
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»
Europe Matters: Walter Guadagnini discusses Fotografia Europea 2023 in Reggio Emilia
The program also includes OFF circuit, the free and independent section of Fotografia Europea enriched by the initiative of individuals, galleries, associations and public and private institutions
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
Protection No Longer Assured at Colección SOLO in Madrid: an analysis on the sublime
In a present marked by disruptive technologies and disinformation, armed conflicts and environmental collapse, Protection No Longer Assured revisit the concept of the sublime
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
In Paris, the Gallery Perrotin hosts artist Bernar Venet and painter Susumu Kamijo
Parisian Gallery Perrotin and bookstore, with the same name, has locations in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai, displaying world class art and merchandise
Paper as an art medium – Paper Positions, Berlin: in conversation with Heinrich Carstens
Once realizing that Bikini Berlin was not suitable for large paintings or big installations, the team shifted their concept to focus on artworks made of and about one material only:...
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...
Mexico’s cherished artists: Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Commissioned by the couple from the architect Juan O'Gorman in 1931, Diego RIvera and Frida Kahlo lived in the estate until 1934
A home for art built from the ashes of a volcano: Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
Inspired to Aztec temples, the museum hosts a permanent collection of pre-Columbian finds, temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists and a botanical garden
Elizaveta Litovka: the dismissal of definitions about Modigliani
Modigliani keeps on standing out as a visual pioneer. In 2020 Elizaveta Litovka made an homage for Lampoon issue 20
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
We have an I.D.E.A – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility: BASE Milano Design Week 2023
For the third edition of We Will Design: We have an I.D.E.A. A space for marginalized communities, when other institutions have failed to recognize them
The LVMH’s foundation pays homage to Basquiat and Warhol collaborations in Paris
Under Foundation Louis Vuitton's spotlight: A collaboration between Basquiat and Warhol, two of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century
Fuorisalone and digital as a strategy: in conversation with creative director Paolo Casati
Studiolabo for Fuorisalone and Brera Design District: the e-revolution that has changed the perception of Italian design in Milan
5VIE, a local network in Milan with founders Ernesta Del Cogliano and Emanuele Tessarolo
The 2023 theme, Design for Good, highlights the focus on themes such as spirituality, the connection with nature, the relationship with our origins, the drama of incommunicability
The grandeur of the architecture and the encounter with Aperçues by Nina Carini
The site-specific exhibition designed by the artist dialogues with the sacredness and silence of the space of the Basilica di San Celso in Milan
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...
Urban Art Fair and the broader ecology of art: in conversation with Yannick Boesso
Urban Art Fair was launched in 2016 in Paris by its founder Yannick Boesso. The 7th edition will take place in its native venue, Le Carreau du Temple, and open...
Crafting conversations, tradition and innovation in Cape Town: Southern Guild
Despite the geographical distance, Southern Guild aims to promote African art around the world. The next step for Trevyn and Julian McGowan is opening a gallery in Los Angeles
Kayako Oki and Samuel Yal cases: between low-tech craft and audiovisual research
There is an area of audiovisual production that has always preferred broken word, timelessness, a-logical relations and spatial alteration. A rough ode to the non-fictional production
A conversation with Nele Verhaeren, managing director of Art Brussels
For the second year, Art Brussels supports the KickCancer foundation – all proceeds from the sales will be donated to the foundation for research in order to beat childhood cancer
Art Basel Hong Kong’s largest show since 2019: the Asia-Pacific’s art diversity
The 10th edition of Art Basel Hong Kong will take place from March 23 to March 25, 2023 under the direction of Angelle Siyang-Le, the former regional head of gallery...
Post-colonialism and historically relevant topics, inside Stevenson Gallery with Sinazo Chiya
«We’ve seen debates about contemporary art and artists in places such as Oceana, South America, and China are increasingly coming to light», connecting the Global South through art
ABC-ARTE inaugurates ONE OF, a window on Avant-garde art in the city of Milano
The name ONE OF indicates the plurality of experiences: a series of projects connected with the initiatives in Genoa city, according to Antonio Borghese, Director
Pablo Picasso x Paul Smith: An homage exhibition at Musée national Picasso, Paris
At Musée national Picasso-Paris, British designer Paul Smith led a three floor homage exhibition to the work of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso on the fiftieth anniversary of his death
Daniel and Sam Kapp represent queer culture at Kapp Kapp Gallery, New York
Daniel and Sam Kapp are conscious about their social privileges. Choosing to show queer art means to support queer people
The Sixties of Courrèges revisited by Nicolas Di Felice in FW 2023
«Is the sky blue?» is the leitmotif that accompanies the collection's runway reflecting on contemporaneity and its obsessions
Moncler Richard Quinn and Craig Green – composed and polished like marble: Sanja Marušić
Water streams down the marble, flows through the cities and the taps it's a land of water and resilience, contaminated by many transitions – Sanja Marusic for Lampoon 18
1-54 Art Fair, Marrakech – Ismail Zaidy at Maat Gallery: photography is a family affair
Now in its fourth edition in Africa, the 1-54 Art Fair will be hosted in the spaces of Hotel La Mamounia, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year
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
