Contemporary Art

A clock is a clock: but the design?

The series of dialogues between Sam Baron and Fabrica designers continues with the Lebanese creative, David Raffoul. I am very…

13 years ago

Mugs for all

I am pleased to host a short dialogue between Sam Baron, creative director of the Design department at Fabrica, and…

13 years ago

Rick Owens: excellence with a touch of Italy

Rick Owens is a great guy: Californian with an intelligent, rather lop-sided face and the long dark hair of a…

13 years ago

“Ai Pioppi”, magical atmosphere

“A branch falls, a leaf floats down, a bird flies by, a stone rolls. That’s how my ideas are born.”

13 years ago

Lisbon story for Fabrica

Fabrica, the centre for communication of which I am president, recently participated in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale as part of…

13 years ago

Marina Abramović Institute, a house for performance art

Marina Abramović, a Serbian artist who has been living in New York for a while, is a living icon of…

13 years ago

Pompeii, for once a positive metaphor

Let’s put aside the usual comments: Pompeii, the negligence, a metaphor for Italy, and so on...

13 years ago

A dialogue on design: Europe versus Japan

My recent visit to Japan led me to prompt a dialogue on design between Sam Baron, head of design at…

13 years ago

Hippie chic: between subculture and stereotypes

Shortly after my recent trip to Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts inaugurated an exhibition which I was unfortunately unable…

13 years ago

Debut of the new Iraqi art at the Venice Biennale

Little more than ten years ago, one of the most controversial wars of recent history broke out against Saddam Hussein.…

13 years ago