Fausto Caletti: Bodydress

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Fashion has always been looted art, ranging in each visual field, appropriating the language and making it useful to its own expression. Today there is a new approach where the dress is getting closer to art through a visual allusion and illusion made ​​of references and different effects from the past.

Appearing and the appearance are contemporary elements essential to the survival of the fashion

End Cape: Banana is my Business

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The “Tattoo a Banana” by Japanese artist End Cape, who uses bananas as canvas to create illustrations using just a needle. These tattoos are done without colored ink, simply by the process of oxidation of the banana skin pierced by the needle. It’s a past-time known as banana tattooing, but technique-wise is similar to pointillism. This is where pictures are created using tiny dots of

Neil Dawson: Empty Kingdom

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Dawson was born in Christchurch in 1948. The son of a Methodist minister, he grew up in Masterton, Petone, and Hastings and received his secondary education at Hastings Boys’ High School. While in fourth form, Dawson climbed onto the assembly hall and painted April Fool in large white letters on the roof. This gave him front page exposure in the Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune and he

Mounir Fatmi: Blinding Light

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Excerpt from The cult of manipulation: photography at the fringes of reality.

In an unusual 15th century Renaissance painting titled The Healing of Deacon Justinian by Fra Angelico, a miraculous tale of transformation is told. Two saints, Cosmas and Damian, take the leg of a recently deceased Ethiopian man and sew it to the sleeping Deacon, whose own diseased leg has been amputated. For decades,

Tiffany Chung: Another Day Another World

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Tiffany Chung’s work examines conflict, migration, urban progress and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory. It explores the geographical shifts in countries that were traumatized by war, human destruction or natural disaster. Whether Chung’s studies of the growth, decline or disappearance of towns and cities focus on urban development, environmental catastrophe or humanitarian crisis, her ethnographic research and interviews often play into her

Luca Gnizio: Constructed Nature

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Born in 1981 in Lodi, currently living in Pietrasanta, Luca Gnizio has, in only a few years, attracted broad interest from National and International critics, allowing him to rapidly acquire important appointments. Discovered in 2010 by Kenji Kawasaki, he was invited as the first Italian in the category of professionals, to participate in the Tokyo Designers Week. He has also been supported by talent hunters

Heike Buelau: Life is an adventure… or nothing

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“I am Heike Buelau, the HB in Industrial Designs, and ever since I can remember, personal style has been an essential aspect of my life. It has pretty much been the only consistent form of art in my life. Whether a classically trained singer performing Opera, a fine artist in print photography, exploring the field of video or finally again performing live improv with my

Gianluca Capozzi: Post Nature

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Note Poetics My research at the outset is based on a meditative moment. I look at the relationship between man and nature as part of the ‘energy that surrounds everything. The eye goes to the man, the society that moves away from its natural position, and its possible existence in communion with an organic whole and connected at all times (even in reference theories on

Alice Lissoni: Sacred, Science and Truth

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We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in a desert, a dismantled skeleton that lies under the sand. It is our work to recover the parts, it is a painstaking process best done when the shadows are just right, for it takes much looking.

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Alice’s artistic path penetrates into the depths of feminine identity in

Francesco Ardini: Inviluppo e Proliferazioni

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As a result of profound reflections of scientific nature, I consider the idea that the world is not based on linearity, but that its essence sinks into chaos. Uneven surfaces, the apparent dissolution, the linearity threatened by cracks, dynamism, are the immediate traits, which create volumes seemingly fragile, uncontrolled of my ceramics. PROLIFERATION and ENVELOPE are born from scientific research that comes to the first