Monthly Archives: July 2013

Bruno Munari was mentioned in yesterday's feature about Lora Lamm. Let's continue the Munari thread for another day with this picture of his 1946-47 installation entitled "Concavo-Convesso" that we analysed a while back in a previous post. The installation, a … Continue reading →

There are pioneers and innovators all over history and in different disciplines, but it's not that often that the two figures coincide in the same person. That is the case, though, with graphic artist extraordinaire Lora Lamm. The m.a.x. Museo … Continue reading →

I have recently been carrying out a research about three themes – aggregates, accumulators and artefacts. A while back while walking around Rome's city centre I took a picture of this window shop (some readers wrote asking what it is, … Continue reading →

To create the image entitled "Forest Square" (currently on display inside the Finnish Pavilion at the 55th International Venice Art Biennale) Finnish artist Antti Laitinen felled an area of forest, removed the undergrowth, trees and roots and the surface soil, … Continue reading →

There is a clear architectural dimension in the works of Mark Manders. The Dutch artist builds situations and atmospheres that envelop his sculptures engaging them with the surrounding spaces. Manders also has a talent for merging disparate materials – such as … Continue reading →

Associated in the '90s to the Young British Artists, Sarah Lucas distinguished herself in the following years also through her sculptural assemblages made with nylon stockings that called to mind Louise Bourgeois' works. Lucas' sculptures, rendered into bronzes, are currently … Continue reading →

One of the most recurring problems in our everyday lives is the fact that, not knowing how ordinary appliances work, when they break down we often opt for the easy way out - buying new ones. Todd McLellan is not fascinated by the disposable culture … Continue reading →

The list of tomboys in literature, film, videogames and comics is extremely long and features very different young women, from Jo March out of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to the indomitable rebel Tank Girl from the eponymous comic by … Continue reading →

Images of trail maps were framed like paintings and employed to decorate the spaces of the Cariaggi stand at last week's Pitti Filati. The hiking trails were also embroidered on white canvases to symbolise the well-defined paths that fashion designers … Continue reading →

What's the connection between fashion, vampirism, aging and death? The answer may be Tony Scott's first directorial debut, The Hunger (1983). The film is actually on tonight at the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Spain, (at 7 p.m. - free admission) as … Continue reading →