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
Benjamin Labatut discusses why he believes we have ceased to understand the world and what twentieth century scientists can still teach us
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 hesitation is in the way I speak». American artist McArthur Binion challenges Minimalism art history by layering personal objects behind geometric grids
«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
«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
«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.
In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment
«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»
«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»
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
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
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 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
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
A journey through the artistic production of the Neapolitan artist Diego Cibelli, who manipulates the daily life objects to reveal their endless meanings
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
Johannesburg’s queer community, the musical success and the recovery of the shaman tradition in the latest project Gwazamambuka. Desire Marea tells about the many identities that inhabit them
Griffin Frazen on data visualization, 3D modelling and «using architectural thinking and technical skills to help people understand protests from a spacial perspective»
Upcycling designer Nicole McLaughlin and John-John Johnson Junya, known as DJ4Animals, repurpose university hoodies for SUFE Fund, delivering a message on the state of student debt in America
Finding logic in emotions and vice versa. An exploration into the chaos of the mind through tangible artistic dialogues by Levi van Veluw
The latest project by the Italian architectural firm based in Bressanone consists in the renovation of a traditional alpine lodge located within South Tyrol’s Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site
Former architect turned visual artist, Tatiana Brodatch explores love and nudity: «My plasticine people are the actors. The photographs and the stop-motion are the play»
Olivia Rubens grew bioplastic on material from algae, without releasing toxicity in the process «We use humor as a shield and as a pathway»
The bombardment of texture, volume and color, the union of playfulness and self-depreciation – and the civil and social commitment
Released in 1983 and reissued in 2019, the album is a collaborative work by Mendini with a collective of Italian alternative artists from music and theater. A rediscovery of the Italian master’s postmodernist legacy
The Beach animals: machines made out of PVC tubing and sails moved by wind energy that wander the shores of Scheveningen, the Netherlands – man is by nature an artist and an engineer
Flaminia Veronesi – A fish with arms and legs, Adam in penises and nipples, a mermaid with two legs and a tail. When does one employ fantasy?
Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Dr. Mateo Kries: «Museums are not only reflecting social evolutions but seeing themselves as an active part in society»
A Budapest-based brand, the durability in production, and the exposure that should be given to sustainable solutions and nature: case study, Nanushka, Sandra Sandor
The clubbing experience is conceived as intimate and shared with other people as a social activity, a way to learn more about oneself and the individuals around, away from the ordinary life
Gio Giacobbe and Edoardo Iannuzzi: the Italian footwear startup expands the fashion industry’s focused sustainability efforts to a holistic circular model through collaborations
«There are no boring or uninspiring things» says the artist – «Nothing is better than flowers. They are the unit of all that is beautiful, that’s why it’s called flowierdy»
«I think we are always trying to find stuff that’s pushing the dialogue forward about photography, rather than looking at archives», Lewis Chaplin, founder of Loose Joints
The kind of love for Mia Moretti: «the one that makes you see that in yourself and makes you want to grow to take yourself on a journey of growth»
From Random Light to his ongoing series Masks, Dutch designer Bertjan Pot has been designing products based on materials and techniques, leaving the narratives to the viewer
The VNGRD publication reconnects the roots of streetwear with its entry into the Milanese and international fashion scene
Robert Shore chronicles the art of Yayoi Kusama: «the discovery of her father’s affair left her with a lifelong aversion to male genitalia; the dropping of atomic bombs left a sense of reality as a hallucination»
Sustainable materials and virtual models coexisting with traditional craftsmanship. This is how the future of the jewelry industry looks for the upcoming designers
When eco-friendliness meets body-positivity: Ella Wiznia of The Series New York’s drive to upend traditional body conceptions and produce upcycled garments
Currently studying bacterial cultures and bacteria contamination, through his art Giuseppe Lo Schiavo explores the advantages of social organizations
An attempt to demystify fashion’s invisible man: «He could have all the glory and fame – instead he decided to step away to let the garments and the Maison speak for him»
«I want to know. Not believe. Not guess. I want to know» – Gian Maria Tosatti: not knowing what’s going on in ones’ territory can be a choice, but when it’s not, it’s a threat
A farmhouse dated from the second half of the nineteenth century immersed in the Lombard countryside has been turned into an artists’ gateway by Edoardo Manzoni
Emotional awakening is the emblem of this collection and considers the new professionals as drivers in this respect through their visions
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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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