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...Read more
Marina Abramovic “reloaded”.
-> Marina Abramovic "reloaded".When she was a child she did not like herself. She had a huge nose, an ugly hair cut and wore orthopaedic shoes. And she was fascinated with Brigitte Bardot. Every time she asked her mother to get her nose operated, she got a slap in her face. So she made a plan: spinning around, very very fast, falling on the edge of the bed, that was sharp, break...
continue..2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!
-> 2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!2011 is a milestone for illywords. This year we are having the tenth anniversary of the magazine and we would like to warmly celebrate it on our illywords blog which is young but nevertheless able to reach a wide group of friends. To keep track of some illywords’ thoughts of the past ten years, we came up with the idea of developing in our blog ...
continue..Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell’arte!
-> Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell'arte!Leggo sul magazine Io Donna (il femminile del Corriere della Sera) che Angela Vettese, critica d’arte, è appena stata premiata come figura di spicco al femminile. La Giuria internazionale del Veuve Cliquot Award ha deciso di assegnarle il premio 2010 “al valore artistico femminile”. Sorrido mentre leggo l'intervista ad Angela Vettese (di P...
continue..Who was your table companion when…
-> Who was your table companion when...I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile… Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations. Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat. Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
continue..Sorpresa!
-> Sorpresa!Mi sarebbe piaciuto produrre un numero di illywords intitolato “LA SORPRESA!”. Possiamo però riflettere e scambiare opinioni sul tema attraverso il web. Chissà che non si riesca un domani a realizzarlo fisicamente :-) Oggi c'è una spasmodica voglia di sorprendere il pubblico, attraverso la pubblicità, attraverso le azioni e le relazioni:...
continue..Art Fairs? Impressive
-> Art Fairs? ImpressiveI have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in Madrid. Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world. An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve. ...
continue..Biennale twice the size
Magazine -> #13 Conscious project2 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 ...
continue..Digital update
Magazine -> #14 RefreshHow is Digit updating the web? What do you think about new developments in the Internet? Stuart Jackson: One way we update the web is not to increase its complexity, but to simplify and demystify it. Our company ethos is “simple human interaction” which might seem strange - the idea that simplicity has become a fundamental element of a comp...
continue..Rigor and creativity: the way to success
Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboardsWE HAVE ASKED MICHEL ROTH, CUISINE DIRECTOR OF THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS, HOW IMPORTANT TIME IS IN A KITCHEN WHERE DAILY ROUTINE IS CHARACTERISED BY LITTLE TIME AND HECTIC RHYTHMS. Passion does not take time into account. I do not count the hours I spend at work, but I do count the time it takes to do a job: there are time limits that are dictated b...
continue..Deeper rivers flow more silently
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationWHAT IS "DESIGN TIME"? My "design time" has changed a lot over the years. When I was young, in Japan, I attended a rationalist school. Designs were dealt with in a very rigorous manner and preceded by a host of preliminary studies to prove that they were logical and functional. When I moved to Italy in 1939, I discovered a more informal and free...
continue..Cogito ergo sum
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCogito ergo sum, it reads on what is probably the most famous work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. In actual fact, it is not a painting but a frame containing a piece of knitting like Grandma used to do. The insight of Descartes meets feminine handiwork, through a subtly sophisticated critique of Cartesian dualism, which will not leave us alone...
continue..The mobility of the emotions
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
continue..Growing amazement
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFrom weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
continue..Learning western ways
Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaVittorio's family-given name is Qun, but his love for and knowledge of Italy have led him to adopt this very Italian sounding name. Our meeting with Vittorio is at his interior design atelier in Beijing, where he has been working for eight years now, especially for nouveau rich Chinese families whom he furnishes with many Made in Italy products. ...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeHere’s a piece of news by the press that’s really digital food for thought: “sharing know-how was akin to blasphemy to Bill Gates; now he doesn’t have any alternative but to share”. It’s a radically new outlook, a complete turn around in the strategy so far pursued by the man, whose company’s cuttingedge on the global market depended...
continue..Experience
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationI remember the first designs we used to prepare at Central Saint Martins College, when the briefs (author's note: design instructions) consisted of threefour words randomly picked by our tutors. We would start working in small groups, not knowing each other: at that stage it was impossible to have any prejudices or dislikes. For the same reason, th...
continue..The self-portrait experience
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitIn front of a cup of coffee. In the digital era self portraiture enables anyone to produce a work of art instinctively, without knowing anything about photography. I have been using this technique for several years, with children, adolescents and adults from all walks of life, helping them to make self portraits using my own camera, or letting t...
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