ISSY WOOD, LUBIES ET VANITES
Issy Wood, a young rising star in British painting1, has her first French exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations. Spread out over sixty paintings and as many personal anecdotes, like a visual diary, this plunge into intimacy blending kitsch and triviality says a lot about the stereotypes of our society. High-gloss black leather coats, car seats and […]
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI, “Questo vuoto fatto di infinito”
“…] creare luoghi psicologici… luoghi mentali. Luoghi che hanno una voce, un cuore che batte nello spessore dei muri”: questo l’obiettivo perseguito da Claudio Parmiggiani1 con la sua serie di Delocazioni, opere di fumo e fuliggine. Vere e proprie “sculture d’ombra”, questi dipinti spettrali creati in situ da flaconi, farfalle, teschi o libri anneriti dal […]
MARINA ABRAMOVIC, Retrospettiva
Nata nel 1946 a Belgrado nell’ex Jugoslavia, Marina Abramović ha portato l’arte performativa dai suoi inizi sperimentali negli anni Settanta fino al suo apice. Dopo essersi messa in pericolo per più di cinquantacinque anni ed essere ancora attiva, all’artista è stata dedicata una retrospettiva alla Royal Academy of Arts di Londra. Una vera consacrazione segnata […]
GEOSMINE, ART CULINAIRE
Une adresse gastronomique, située dans le 11e arrondissement de Paris, où chaque élément a été pensé et mûri pour offrir à chaque participant une expérience sensorielle entre art, design et caractère. Ici, on ne vous offre pas une simple dégustation de plats parfaitement exécutés : on vous invite aussi à découvrir l’univers tout entier du chef […]
CLEMENS GRITL PROBES 20TH-CENTURY URBAN UTOPIAS
For the past six years, Clemens Gritl’s digital renderings have examined the tension between the revolutionary sculptural beauty of post-war megastructures and their loss of human scale. Through his series A Future City From The Past, Clemens Gritl draws on “the mystifying vision of a radically aggressive and uncompromising urban dystopia” Starting with J.G. Ballard’s […]
VERTEBRAL, WHEN ARCHITECTURE ADAPTS TO NATURE
Founded in 2016 by two architects, Elias Kalach and Teddy Nanes in México City, Vertebral officiates in both the architectural and landscape worlds. © VERTEBRAL “The studio is not governed by an aesthetic ideal or a geometric predisposition,” explains the designer duo, “but by a research that births from observation, in order to approach the […]
THE RADICAL POETRY OF JOAO CEPEDA
Having worked for some of the world’s greatest architects, Portuguese architect Joao Cepeda now works under his own name. A singular architectural solfeggio, combining radicalism and osmosis with nature. ©Rendergram “In constant search of the essence. Keen to avoid fashion or trends of any kind. Seeks serenity. Focuses on architecture’s sole central support, materiality and […]
LE CHRISTINE, UN NOME DA RICORDARE
Situato in una strada discreta, tra Saint-Michel e Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Christine riunisce tutto ciò che ci si aspetta da un indirizzo culinario: bellezza, bontà e gusto! Questo ristorante aperto nel 2004 non è invecchiato per niente, al contrario, sprigiona una sensazione di novità e atemporalità grazie al talento dello chef Mehdi Bencheikh, che ci offre […]
THE COLLECTOR’S HOUSE BY TOM DIXON
Design Research Studio presents its avant-garde version of a collector’s home for the penthouse apartments at One Park Drive in London. Since 2007, Tom Dixon and Helene Bangsbo Andersen have been creating the spaces and objects of tomorrow through Design Research Studio. The radical vision of this innovation consultancy lends itself to the notion of […]
GEORGE BYRNE, FRAGMENTS OF THE CALIFORNIAN DREAM
Under his lens, the city becomes a supernatural environment. Since his arrival in California in 2010, Australian-born George Byrne has built up a portfolio that transforms architectural structures and urban landscapes into painterly abstractions. In their wanderings, they capture fragments of the Californian setting in a set of geometric lines between concrete, sky and […]