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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
The new trend in NY: global nomads meeting in hotels. A new shape for your nightlife in the Big Apple.
-> The new trend in NY: global nomads meeting in hotels. A new shape for your nightlife in the Big Apple.Remember Studio 54, the legendary New York nightclub where Andy Warhol and Grace Jones partied away the last days of disco until the Aids epidemic brought everything to a screeching halt? Unthinkable today! There are no legendary night clubs in New York anymore. What Aids didn’t do, Giuliani’s “quality of life” policies did, as well a...
continue..Freed passion
Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
continue..Towards eternity
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFirst of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise? Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...
continue..The contrary art
Magazine -> #22 KaizenWhat meaning do you give to the word kaizen? Is there any link between your artistic work and this concept? Kaizen means improvement, but as an artist I don’t pay much heed to this word, because of its industrial connotations. In this context, the word kaizen can be explained in terms of a succession of small changes, designed to simplify and i...
continue..Dilation of feel
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitThere’s a famous photograph by Ugo Mulas showing a picture by Michelangelo Pistoletto that reflects the viewer’s image. It’s a masterful shot consonant with the picture’s subject matter, a work of art itself and a difficult work at that precisely because it acts like a mirror. It’s a work whose photographic rendition requires some degree ...
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