Tag: The Art Field
Hyperlocal installations produced with CO2 in mind – A Feral Commons (or: A Forgotten Place)
For A Feral Commons, Muhannad Shono studied unnoticed ecologies in Dubai’s urban Alserkal Avenue. He applied his rebellious manifestation philosophy to the industrial Al Quoz area
Italiani: siamo e saremo sempre, tutti stranieri
Siamo tutti stranieri, e gli stranieri sono ovunque. Straniero, può vuol dire strano, forse l’opposto di stereotipo. Revisione ruvida, forse provocatoria, della 60° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia
William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»
In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye
Design a Milano, Biennale a Venezia, Vinitaly: l’Italia che non fa sistema
Perché il Salone del Mobile, la Biennale di Venezia e il Vinitaly a Verona sono caduti tutti e tre nella stessa settimana di aprile, perdendo occasioni e indotto? Di chi...
Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure
Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to...
Art Paris 2024: avant-garde, inclusion, sustainability and human fragility
Art Paris 26th edition saw the debut of the BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize, which was awarded to Nathalie Du Pasquier for her multidisciplinary practice as illustrative of an era
Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case
Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine
Deborah Poynton: «overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t»
Discordant objects amongst natural landscapes, nude portraits of herself, her friends and family, Deborah Poynton’s practice is about creating the illusion of reality, applying layers of oil painting
Marion Baruch: humans made textile before writing
The curiosity towards humanity, the desire to experiment with the unknown, fabric and movement: the Romanian textile artist talks about her latest solo show
Public cruising and orgies: Raphael Hubner’s male art is a modern Kama Sutra
The Brazilian artist draws sex positions men can perform in public and private spaces. Raphael Hubner homoerotic art outline men intimacy and sex in conservative Brazil
Langston Uibel on pursuing cinema in a post-streaming landscape
Films are made in consortium. Langston Uibel discusses processes of collaboration and notions of artistic voice with the award winning actor
How Unreal We Are. SIRA cultural hub in Paris slams human fragility in viewer’s face
In the cultural hub SIRA in Paris, the nomadic curatorial project Shivers Only uses video art and analog photography to carve out human fragility and depict How Unreal We Are
Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new
Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration
A gallery of books – Rupture in Venice challenges the expectations of traditional bookstore
Alexandre Sap’s Rupture Arts & Books store in Venice is part of a network that encourages the exchange of culture, conversation and community in a creative international cultural space
It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable
Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts
Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»
Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South
Roses and hunter: Farshad Farzankia honors the strength of women from Iran
«I experienced pain in my family and my close relationships, people going to jail and not coming back. I was born into this chaos of uncertainty» – Farshad Farzankia on...
Jota Mombaça about political intersectionality and utopia as transition
Queer artist Jota Mombaça discusses her work as a radical reorientation to history and memory, allowing the elements to reveal perspectives inaccessible to people
Gurjeet Singh’s idiosyncrasy: textile sculptures respond to notions of stereotype labelism
Rural Indian subjectivity found in 3d textile sculptures. Gurjeet Singh handcrafts bold narratives of identity, isolation and sexual exploration into faces made of fabric and stuffing
Art, literature and activism. Ali Omar Ermes’ artwork as a tool for cultural diplomacy
Ali Omar Ermes art served as a bridge between these Libya and Europe, transcending walls of discord, and promoting a sense of mutual appreciation and respect
Questi giorni a Venezia: la Biennale, il Cinema, Poor Things e La Mostra di Cartier
La Mostra è il titolo del programma culturale con cui Cartier amplifica la rassegna cinematografica, per il quale diventa legittimo il ruolo di Main Sponsor della Biennale di Venezia
«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...
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
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
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...
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
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
