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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
Real presence
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectnKA | ICA Indipendent Centre of Art Beograd Director: Biljana Tomic Art director and workshop manager: Dobrila Denegri In 2001, straight after the arrival of democracy in Serbia, the idea took off for a great meeting of young REAL PRESENCE artists. Biljana Tomic and I asked young emerging artists from all over Europe to come to Belgrade an...
continue..Muthesius Academy of Arts
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe history of the “Muthesius Academy” in Kiel, Northern Germany, goes back to the beginning of the 20th century: the school’s course concept is based on the ideas of the “German Werkbund”, an organization that was founded in 1907 by a group of artists, architects, writers and industrials and that promoted the idea of combining traditiona...
continue..The strange alchemy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...
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..The luxury of transparency
Magazine -> #4 PassionVenini, symbol of creativity and excellence in the Italian glass-making sector, is a cosmopolitan firm, one that is consistent with traditions and innovation. Contrasting features are skilfully blended to continue manufacturing the colourful dreams that make Venini an internationally-renowned trademark. Fire, sand, hands - are these shapes and ...
continue..Palais de Tokyo
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesPalais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...
continue..Mantova, a town moving to the rhythm of the festival
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesFESTIVALETTERATURA HAS FOR YEARS BEEN THE CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS. A TOWN OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MANTOVA MAKES ITS STREETS AND SQUARES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT IT CAN MEET AND EXCHANGE VIEWS AND OPINIONS, IN A PEACEFUL AND SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE. CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BERLIN AN...
continue..Artefiera 2002
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationArte e Fiera 2002 in Bologna, the most important Italian event concerning contemporary art, is an appointment not to be missed by collectors, artists, critics and art lovers tout court. From this recently closed scenario stems the spirit of ImpresArte which, on the occasion of its 2002 edition, produced a book entitled "Collezionare Arte- Un'idea ...
continue..Creative battles
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationIn Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...
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