Posts Tagged ‘contemporary’

The essential Martí

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

Let’s take irony: a linguistic picklock, a means for coping and coming to grips with an ever changing world, a way of putting oneself on the board. Irony hasn’t much currency lately, a circumstance that often makes for cultural doldrums. How does irony fit into your works? Well, I take it as a personal commitment to ensure that all my works ...

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Pure beauty

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

Before being a label, Pucci is first and foremost the name of a family, and what a family! We’re talking about history – almost a thousand years of it – and about a cutting-edge business enterprise based in the family’s historical mansion. Emilio Pucci’s inspired and visionary drawings are simply spellbinding, as acknowledged worldwide. N...

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Palais de Tokyo

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

Palais 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...

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Artefiera 2002

Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovation

Arte 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 ...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

Headline & Editorial

Headline & Editorial

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...
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People

People

For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world.  Topics have covered space, courage, dreams,...
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Schools

Schools

On the pages of illywords, the works of writers, artists and established professionals are the inspiration for the ideas and images of emerging artists, photographers and...
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