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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
Kabakov’s Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)
-> Kabakov's Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)We suggest this exhibition: ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | The Blue Carpet MACRO | Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma Via Reggio Emilia 54 | Roma | Italy preview: Friday, January 22, 2010 – h. 7 pm Open from January 23 – April 5, 2010 www.macro.roma.museum Illywords and Galleria Continua worked together in the past -- I met up with Da...
continue..Art T-Eco
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyRather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...
continue..Matteo in via Farini
-> Matteo in via FariniNext week there's an interesting collective of young artists in Milan, organised by Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa: OPERA 2009. Matteo de Mayda, who worked on the graphics of various illywords issues, shot the image on the poster. Milan Via Farini DOCVA/Fabbrica del Vapore Opening January 19th 2010-18.30; until Feb 20 2010 For more inf...
continue..Frustration = Inspiration
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityFor me design is not just about how something looks, but how it works. I don’t see a difference between a designer and an engineer, and I don’t want to see a difference. A designer should be both. My route into design was an unconventional one; I came from a background of academics and clergy and had never considered a career in engineering....
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindI met the suggestion that I write something up on the topic of “food for the mind” with enthusiasm. Not only do I find it stimulating, but it’s also very topical. Our physiological needs, as Maslow calls them, including self-security, a sense of communal belonging and esteem, have been fairly much appeased in the West; we’ve peaked his famo...
continue..Biennale – Culture open to comparison
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindFor the first time, illycaffè is a partner of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, continuing the relationship which began at the previous editions of Biennale Art in 1997, 2003 and 2005. Against this background of cultural enjoyment we talked to Chairman Davide Croff on the theme of “food for thought”. Ha...
continue..The courage to taste
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindCan you give us your definition of “culture”? Culture includes all the arts, dance, music, songs, language etc. It is the stew in which we are pickled. This, marinated over time, gives each locale its different flavour. Culture is what shapes ones personality and ones interaction with the world. What part had culture in your formation? Si...
continue..Cultivating the spirit
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindCulture is a word that comes from the farming world, and originally just meant “cultivation”. However, the oldest Indo-European root means “take action, get going, live”. It was only during the 17th century that the Italian word “cultura” began, perhaps thanks to the influence of religious worship, to mean the world of arts, letters and...
continue..Fine Arts Academy of Bologna
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeThe Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
continue..To eat childhood; three degrees of amazement in the kitchen
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseAnyone with a minimum of technical ability can be a wizard in the kitchen. The domestic chef, from whom we expect less, can amaze us with the deliciousness of a well-cooked dish. At advanced amateur (or basic professional) level we are surprised by an original recipe, a combination of flavours, or an unusual presentation. The art of surprise for...
continue..The laboratory of surprises
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseThe Städelschule is an experimental school in the sense that we are interested in probing the very boundaries of what an educational institution can be. The filmmaker Peter Kubelka’s activities in the 1990s involving music and food (and even live animals from a circus) are legendary. A more recent example we can remember Gasthof (2002), a one-w...
continue..Städelschule, Frankfurt Art Academy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseThe Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main is one of Germany’s most well known art academies. Founded in 1817 by the Frankfurt merchant and collector Johann Friedrich Städel, it has today developed into an experimental school with an international faculty and with students from across the globe. The school has its own exhibition space, the Portikus,...
continue..Straight on target
Magazine -> #6 OrientationDetermined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...
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..Beautiful homes for the majority
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsLUCEPLAN designs, manufactures and markets lighting appliances for residences, offices, community, government and agency buildings, indoor and outdoor environments. Luceplan's adventure was born from the design-oriented spirit of three young architects, among whom is Riccardo Sarfatti, who in 1978 decided to pursue the goal of "beautiful homes for...
continue..Young film directors
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsNaples has a long-standing cinema tradition: early Lumière productions were screened in the Neapolitan concertcafès and the first Italian film-making companies (Partenope, Vesuvio Film) were born precisely in the Neapolitan area. The production of films directed by Neapolitan film directors and set in Naples and surroundings is experiencing a pe...
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