JR interviewed by Jean Nouvel: “A world apart”
Domus guest editor 2022 retraces with the artist, also French, the genesis and stages of the project in Tehachapi Prison, reflecting on the effects of globalization.
Guillermo del Toro redesigned Pinocchio and created a masterpiece
With the decisive contribution of the illustrator Gris Grimley, the filmmaker overturned Collodi’s classic by creating a hymn to disobedience that betrays the original product – but isn’t this the very meaning of creative activity?
The eternal return of antiquity, with Koolhaas’ hand: “Recycling Beauty” at Fondazione Prada
With set up curated by OMA, the third chapter of Fondazione’s research on antiquity showcases a colossus, animal statues (including a fake), and works of art that have been “recycled” over time, creating a link between past and present.
Those who left us in 2020
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
Women for art
From Botticelli to Dali, from Raphael to Boccioni – among the many artists who have paid homage to women, there is also Rosalba Carriera, who became famous for her portraits of women where flowers had a key significance.
Between real and digital: Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, a prototype of the modern-day artist
He studied architecture and photography, is keen on scientific and technological topics, and enjoys creating in the real as well as in the digital world: we met the Italian artist who is “always on the move” and is currently on show simultaneously in Trento and Rome.
Andrés Jaque
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Daniel Arsham’s eroded turntable pays homage to an iconic 1990s case
The sculpture, created by the artist in collaboration with the luggage brand Rimowa, will be available in a limited-edition starting Oct. 7.
Seven Banksy artworks on the rubble in Ukraine
The artist claimed seven new works realised to condemn the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.
Shipwrecked
Two great paintings of the 19th century by Delacroix and Goya recount the tragedy of the shipwreck, providing a warning for what is currently happening off the Italian coast.
Pop Air, an exhibition dedicated to the art and design of inflatables
Balloon Museum’s inflatable works of art ‘land’ in Milan with the ‘Pop Air’ exhibition, an immersive experience combining art and entertainment in an unconventional way.
What not to miss at Artissima 2022 and Turin Art Week
An essential guide to the unmissable event of contemporary art in Turin, and all the events taking place around the city during the 29th edition of Italy’s most experimental fair. With unpublished statements by new director Luigi Fassi.
October
October is a special month that brings characteristic colours and inspirations and has been interpreted throughout the history of art in very different ways – Tissot’s female figure, von Sandrart’s Bacchus, and Filonov’s futurist forms.
The big exhibition dedicated to Andy Warhol in Milan, “the Raphael of mass society”
With more than 300 works on display and curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, “Andy Warhol. The Publicity of Form” showcases a large selection of works by the American artist, including his “NFTs” made on Amiga.