Documenting his personal experiences, Greek photographer Rennt contributes to the public discourse on sexual empowerment and to support the visibility and representation of the LGBTQ+ community
Making way for the present does not require obliterating the past. Zhang Ke, Xu Tiantian, and Zhu Pei display their designs and share their process at the MOMA Museum
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
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»
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 could be incorporated in the artificial sun
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»
«The hesitation is in the way I speak». American artist McArthur Binion challenges Minimalism art history by layering personal objects behind geometric grids
«You have to lose weight» people used to say to Ludovica; but she did the opposite. Sofia Blu Cremaschi’s photographs tell the battle of model Ludovica for self-determination of the body
«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
Ralph Lauren was not the first to associate this shirt with the name of the sport, but he changed its semantics. In English, Ralph Lauren elevated the ‘Polo’ shirt from a common to a proper noun
A nod to Paris and to the house’s roots, Hedi Slimane styled and did the set of the newly looks of the Hôtel de la Marine and the Hôtel National Des Invalides
«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
Berlin-based singer-songwriter, Alice Merton opens up about her musical influences, life after releasing her debut single
«Thirty individuals interact with an environment they have never been in before, finding themselves in a new situation where it is easy to feel vulnerable» – photographer Javier Ruiz for Lampoon
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
From their home-studio in Milan, photographers Armando Bruno and Mauro Maglione explore voyeurism and the ‘invasiveness’ of the camera
Photographer Jonathan Arundel set his documentary story inspired by the unusual South Coast of England. Images that fade into the humidity of the sea and a time that seems to have consumed them
A duplication of imagery and scale acts as a means of equating the objects and the subjects. A collection of Montreal’s creativity overlooked by the international fashion industry – Alex Black
«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
It’s not like someone working in the post office. For an artist it’s life, it’s a way of life, it’s not something you decide to quit somehow. You’re there the moment you know that you cannot avoid it.
«Transparent can also be just another way of saying one’s true self, displaying all those things that are usually hidden behind the two-way mirror of one’s life» – Rasmus Weng Karlsen
Arcangelo Sassolino will be present at Venice Biennale 2022 with Diplomazija astute, a kinetic art installation which will turn the Malta pavilion into a place of mixture of Biblical narratives
Breaking the barriers between genders’ representations to stir up trouble shows that femininity and masculinity are exchangeable and shareable
In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment
Roberto Patella’s work echoes the socially critical message of the book ‘Generation Me’, namely why today’s youth are more confident, assertive, entitled, and unhappier than ever before
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».
In Franzolini’s work, there is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of humans and the benefits of their absence. A landscape that appears unseemly to us is an opportunity for nature to regain its vigor
Styphalia is a marshy lake in Greece. It is situated on a plateau at the southern foot of Mount Cyllene. Here, Ria Mort recreates an ancestral circle
We Are History, a group show curated by Ekow Eshun offers an expansion of the visual framework surrounding climate change — from historical and postcolonial to lyrical and poetic
A silent performance, a theatrical act without a script, a dreamscape of bodies floating on the stage of life. Menelik Puryear and the dream as satisfaction of unconscious desire
«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 passively viewing but positioned in an active role»
To explore transparency, Louis de Roffignac opted for neutral backgrounds and played around with colored gelatins. The layering of colors allows for variations of the different shades of transparency
How contemporary artists’ approach to art history has changed: emerging artists who change the canons with respect to traditional art
«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 wood».
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Editor and co-founder Ghislain Pascal on combating homophobic censorship – «It’s fine art photography. I don’t want anybody to presume it’s pornography»
etros Efstathiadis for Lampoon Transaprency: «Electricity, telecommunications, natural forces, love, and war – they change the world, they create social classes and they push people to success or failure»
Photographer Tarplin’s project for Lampoon is an overlay of slides that mix the natural with the artificial. A work that reflects on transparency as a possibility of cross-exchange
Inspired by the German school of design, Bauhaus, British photographer Jack Johnstone brings back the human body as a constitutive element of theater and performance
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
«During the search Ioana and I ended up finding an archival Penthouse magazine from the 90’s with an erotic photo shoot with transparent furniture» – Ottilie Landmark and her interplay of bodies
Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury: The challenge to change the perception of red mud to consider it a potential sustainable resource
«I approach an image from several possible angles so to challenge the museum’s audience» — a conversation with Danish multimedia artist Jesper Just
A mix of portraits, documentary, and fashion developed on humanist realism expressed in a raw aesthetic, showing the sensibilities, fragilities, sensuality, and positive feelings
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
«I want to show the alienated but intimate relationship between human beings and nature, and the tenacious vitality shown by the combination of them» – Jin Jia Ji for Lampoon
The attachment to the environment is evidenced by the references to the earth and its plastic qualities. A diary from Spain: mud, transparencies and blades of light
Our main focus was water – we wanted to present the relationship between humans and water, as well as explore water in different states by the sea as well as in natural baths in the mountains
«They are not afraid of what they want to do ». A city between Eastern, Western and Soviet influences fosters the new generation of designers
Marie Tomanova for Lampoon – the Transparency Issue: «I wanted to photograph the badass musicians of punk band CUMGIRL8. We kept it real. Honest. We peeked into their universe»
Sex workers, politicians, zoom calls and fake facelift. Daniel Roché continues to reproduce the reality that surrounds us, proposing a series of personas that, like a mirror, reflect our contradictions
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COVER IMAGE ISABELLE WENZEL
IN CONVERSATION WITH
JENNA GRIBBON
AURET VAN HEERDEN
NOÉMI MICHEL
JOSEPH GRIMA
LIVIA FIRTH
NAZMA AKTER
EKOW ESHUN
LUCY MAULSBY
DAVID SPRIGGS
REGINE SCHUMANN
ANDREA BARONCHELLI
MAURO MARTINO
ROBERT NORTON
EMANUELE DASCANIO
LISA WHITE
FORMAFANTASMA
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