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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
Bello e Buono…anzi SQUISITO!
-> Bello e Buono...anzi SQUISITO!Domani sarò a San Patrignano al mio primo Squisito, la grande manifestazione sul mondo del cibo organizzata ogni anno dai 1500 ragazzi della communità di San Patrignano (Rimini) e inaugurata oggi, Venerdi 30 Aprile. L'emozione è grande perchè nello spazio Blog Cafè si potrà parlare anche di illywords e dell'ultimo numero #28 Conviviality. E...
continue..Cultural interlude with Aldo Cibic
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe 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...
continue..Haim Steinbach
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsWE MET HAIM STEINBACK IN PARIS AT THE PALAIS DE TOKIO, DURING THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE TENTH ILLY COLLECTION PRODUCTION ANNIVERSARY. THROUGH THIS INTERVIEW, FAMOUS ART CRITIC ANGELA VETTESE HELPS US TO BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE ARTIST AND THE MAN. It is with slight consternation that one enters Haim Steinbach's studio. On the identical baby ...
continue..Palais de Tokyo
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesPalais 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...
continue..Mantova, a town moving to the rhythm of the festival
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesFESTIVALETTERATURA HAS FOR YEARS BEEN THE CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS. A TOWN OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MANTOVA MAKES ITS STREETS AND SQUARES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT IT CAN MEET AND EXCHANGE VIEWS AND OPINIONS, IN A PEACEFUL AND SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE. CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BERLIN AN...
continue..Lone photographer
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised. Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
continue..Interview with Daniel Buren
Magazine -> #8 Place, not placeIt'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..Domus, home to architecture
Magazine -> #8 Place, not placeThe first issue of Domus was published by Gio Ponti in 1928. Since then it has followed and borne witness to the evolution in the field of architecture and design. Today, Stefano Boeri, an Italian, has taken over the magazine’s editorship from the Londoner, Deyan Sudjic. The change was more than enough to start pundits claiming that the Milan-bas...
continue..Questing by misunderstanding
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityAna Mendieta bends backwards over a table, naked, covered in blood and mute. She’s enacting the rape suffered by a friend the setting: a – student’s room in an American college; the time: the early stages of the feminist movement. The artist was searching for a powerful way of exposing the violence endured by women. As it turned out, that p...
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