Monthly Archives: May 2019

A while back we looked at the possibilities offered by the blockchain in journalism and in particular in fashion journalism. But fashion is a vast universe and the blockchain is a fascinating concept also for other sectors of the industry. … Continue reading →

Sadly you don’t need long researches to prove that femicides are a global emergency. Switch on the news wherever you are and you will hear stories of women murdered, often by men very close to them (intimate partner femicide is … Continue reading →

While writing this post the civil rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 has entered Italian territorial waters and has stopped in front of the port of Lampedusa with 47 persons on board. The ship's crew rescued 65 people on May 15 from a … Continue reading →

In the previous post we looked at "The Spider/Web Pavilion 7", a project at the 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice in which artist Tomás Saraceno invited visitors to consider spider divination. In his installation in the Gaggiandre area of the … Continue reading →

Yesterday we looked at Ed Atkins' installation at the 58th International Art Exhibition in Venice. There are actually more works by Atkins scattered around the Central Pavilion of the Giardini: visitors will indeed find the series of drawings entitled "Bloom", … Continue reading →

So far we looked at installations at the 58th International Art Exhibition in Venice that incorporated second-hand garments or dismissed clothes, but it is possible to spot also artworks integrating costumes. In the Arsenale section there is for example a … Continue reading →

As seen in the last few posts, integrating discarded clothes in a work of art is not just a practice welcomed by many contemporary artists, but it is also a way to hint at different human conditions, depending from the … Continue reading →

In a previous post we looked at Jimmie Durham's sculptures of animals, assemblages of everyday materials integrating also second-hand clothes. There are quite a few contemporary artists who employ in their practice discarded clothes, among them also Yin Xiuzhen, currently … Continue reading →

Ten years ago I did an interview with glass jewellery designers Marina and Susanna Sent. Inspired by the principles of minimalist design, the Murano-based sisters are famous for creating glass dresses, corsets and jewellery pieces sold in shops all over … Continue reading →

Sometimes the most intriguing things happen by pure chance or by mistake. So it happened that, while walking around Venice and the Biennale venues with my camera, my finger inadvertently brushed against the touch screen. The camera clicked and took … Continue reading →