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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
Determined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...
continue..It's snowing when I meet Daniel Buren at the Press Restaurant of the Bologna Art Fair. He's just arrived and despite the clatter of cutlery and din and row of loud voices he's easy and relaxed, and quite willing to answer my questions. After all, any place will do when one meets with the "genuine article". To quote from one of your statements...
continue..Francesco Di Lauro talks with Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...
continue..Whenever I think of the word “chaos” the first thing that springs to mind is when I can’t find a document in my office, or the car keys at home. But no sooner do they turn up that I’m already telling myself that after all my disorder is only a very idiosyncratic sort of order. In ancient Greek philosophy Chaos was used to refer to the disor...
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