Posts Tagged ‘cultures’

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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Experimentation, creation, art

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

Experimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...

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Somebody up there loves us

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

In front a cup of coffee. Home-made: where did your creative career start, and how much has it been influenced by your roots? I was born on an island, somewhere between here and elsewhere, between solid ground and the infinite horizons that stretch beyond the seas. When you grow up on an island, you learn to discover the world around you, pa...

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Footnotes to a blank page

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

You could be me. Any human being on earth could end up in my situation – that of an (im)migrant. I am not talking about tourists who give up their daily life at home to try living somewhere else for a time. I’m talking about people who pack up their lives and move to a country that is so foreign that they have to mobilise all their resources - ...

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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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