Posts Tagged ‘Exhibitions’

Biennale twice the size

Magazine -> #13 Conscious project

2 questions to the 2 organisers of a unique, 2-yearly event: the Venice Biennale. What's art's role in building up awareness on such major issues as the environment, human rights, social development? Maria de Corral: Today's artists do not share a style, but an attempt to build personal aesthetic worlds, to establish their own formal needs, to ...

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Cultural interlude with Aldo Cibic

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

The 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by architect and town planner Richard Burdett*, focuses on the theme of Cities: migration, growth, mobility and sustainable development. As part of the exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, architect Aldo Cibic will be interpreting the concept of density. Here, il...

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Biennale – Culture open to comparison

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

For 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...

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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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Designing encounters

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

Cappellini is almost always the main actor to every major design "event". The latest edition of the Furniture Exhibition in Milan, but mostly the "Side Events to the Exhibition", confirmed how important "Creating Opportunities" is for the Cappellini company and its goals. There are two reasons, in particular, why "Creating Opportunities" is fundam...

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    Ai Wei Wei

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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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