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»
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
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
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».
«They are not afraid of what they want to do ». A city between Eastern, Western and Soviet influences fosters the new generation of designers
«Online everything becomes flat, which is how many people consume art today and I think my paintings work well seen via the digital». Bringing back the still life for digital consumption
«I don’t want to do things to shock people». Soft is often a synonymous of weak. Pastel colors allow the artist to show the contrast between strong images and soft colors
A look into the vision of an architect and the inspiration to design not only our spaces but the way we live. Talking earth, timeless design, Enzo Mari and a wooden sailboat
From illustration to performances, from sculpture to acting: Nicola Di Benedetto – «We were all staging the Seventies and we all were acting»
Italian contemporary artist Daniele Sigalot plays with aluminium and other artistic mediums to create a sense of disorientation in the mind of the observer
From spinning discs in a local club in Rome to storming Berghain, Italian DJ Adiel talks about her techno music production
Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon creates PET lamps: he could be considered a precursor of sustainable design bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship
Childhood and adolescence split between conservatory and street, this is how Pamart’s love for classical music and rap grew and gave results
The brand carving new shapes of communication. Louise Lyngh Bjerregard is all about exploring vulnerability and investigation through upcycled materials
«Wherever I went, I went with myself, and I couldn’t escape the person that I was in all those different scenarios» – Jamie Sutherland on creating imagined realities as a catalyst for their final collection at CSM
Kristina Shakht’s experiments with the medium of Polaroids: «It’s blurry, low quality, and dreamy. Colors are always a surprise, mostly a good surprise»
«We’ve regained the freshness of our early days, while also growing in maturity». With their brand new album as Cats on Trees, the French duo is back to big on stage
«My work is about pain, accepting it, going with the flow of pain, to not feel it, not be affected by it, and this has been my work for over thirty years»
How knowing the origin of your pieces helps to create a client experience that surpasses the act of buying something. «You just should care who’s made something and where it’s come from».
How do you construct your work? Working Drawings provides an insight into the question which has been posed for the artist for some time – «I have tried to show as far as possible by what means I have found my way as a painter»
«Now we call it sustainability. But using materials that already had a life gives them and our story a continuity». In conversation with textile designer Margarita Aleksievska Sclavi, House of Ita
The collection and reconditioning of materials recovered in Zanzibar and Portugal are the basis of the photographic, sculptural and design productions of Zawadi Studio
«Chinoiserie possesses a sense of wonder, even if tinged by some sadness. I start from this, to express the amazement it communicates to me» – Richard Saja made the toile of joy from the toile de Jouy
«We came in as strangers and we left as family»: The The Kingdom Choir was on stage in Milano, in Via Spiga, for a celebration made possible by Ralph Lauren
Sars-Cov-2, 5G, plastic flowers or antenna trees: the newly developed creatures of our times are portrayed in the last project imagined by Nicolas Nova and Disnovation
Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Alberto Arbasino, Carlo Emilio Gadda. Toshio Matsumoto. Visual researcher and creative director devoted to fashion and cinema, Giangi Giordano tells his story
Zanele Muholi: «Even if a picture cannot reveal all of a person’s personality and humanity, it can provide a moment for themselves and others to recognize their uniqueness»
AIKO is the new photobook of the German photographer, with a special dedication. The loss of his father, the leitmotiv of bodies and the beauty of colours and light in still life
«It is about the usage – the way we are going to sit together. I wanted it to be a form of nostalgia. It also recalls the gardens and flowers Mr. Dior showed his reverence for»
Bianca Felicori’s Forgotten Architecture highlights unknown and lesser-known architecture products the present is yet to know
«Richie Hawtin is the extrovert guy and Plastikman is the introverted side of my personality» – In conversation with one of the biggest names in the techno music scene
The naivety of the gaze and the lure for discovery animate photographer Jamie Hawkesworth’s journeys. Travel as a moment of appreciation of the ordinary from which the most unexpected beauty unravels
Tamara Ferioli’s artistic production is a visual diary of her life and inner world, connected to Iceland’s culture and natural landscapes
Lady Gaga and Nick Knight create a queendom for Dom Pérignon: «Patriarchy gave birth to the idea that the kingdom was the greatest thing of all, so we declare the queendom»
«Sometimes it is interesting to think of the same object in different versions; by changing the material, everything else changes»
Starting from the title and express herself in multiple languages, the Swiss-Tamil artist introduces herself and her mixed cultural background
Paranormal Creativity – the American visual artist creates an encyclopedia of the weird with his works. «I put characters that don’t know who they are yet. They didn’t figure out where their place in the world is»
Max Zara Sterck is the Dutch designer creating expressive garments for free-willed women, tired of being constrained by fashion
A collaboration that resonates with how the Eastern bloc used to work under communism. «Haute Couture houses should look into waste for innovative luxury fabrics» – Aleksandra Sipa
Domenico Romeo research «considers the Opera as a system in its perennial changing shape and size»
Our blasé attitude towards the overuse of technology, can in turn become state surveillance, mass collection of personal data
Nudity is the way to an individual’s soul. In conversation with Israeli photographer on the light as a ‘second skin’ suit
The Spanish designer Jorge Penadés recreates traditional handicraft materials using microfiber pollutants instead of natural resources
The insight into a student project Folies Créatures on the transformation of flora and fauna into a set of bags realized by a sculptural approach of creating clay and 3D modeled prototypes
The book Queer Icons and their Cats is a celebration of the kinship between queers and their cats; solidarity to all who face daily oppression for being their authentic self
Women rule in Happy Hour, men merely persist at the side-lines. Granados smiles, «I could not imagine writing a novel about these girls trying to find boyfriends»
«I am starting fresh and this time I would like to start from zero». Singer and model Tessa Dixon on her new single and her approach to music during the pandemic
Influenced since his childhood by advertising and billboards, Damien Poulain developed a style that draws from graphic design, architecture and other cultures
«What is the opposite of waiting for release? To release as many songs as I can» Oscar Anton challenges the limits of the music industry
The wholeness of his artwork forms a jigsaw puzzle against a backdrop made of cutouts, the reflection of the Spanish artist as a collage artist
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