It’s probably coffee and cigarettes. Also after two years of intensively working together, we have really developed our own language. Especially in times of stress, we understand each other without having to say too much – for others it just sounds weird.
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Young Creative Start Up: Gersonzevi
Offline Book: The Mutable Radical
(Un)certainty Culture: Oh Europe
The end draws near. The downfall of the euro, the collapse of the EU, the entire global economy and probably also the end of Western civilisation are imminent. And have been for so long that “imminent” is barely the right word. As enthusiastic about end time scenarios as ever, the magazine Spiegel presented the inevitable downfall during the last year with melting, cracking or shattering euro coins on no less than six of its covers. For the second time, the magazine used Photoshop to ruin the already ruinous Acropolis, thereby underscoring the destruction of civilisation.
Read moreStart up: Panagea Sculpture Central
Fashion Photography: The Making of “La Filature”
From Detroit to an old textile factory, what inspires you by these rotten places?
These places make you wonder.
They have a special atmosphere, something disconnected from reality. It’s not a coincidence that artists, painters or movie directors have been inspired by ruins.
Read moreArt Collectors: Fürstenberg Futura
“Being in touch with artists of our generation, understanding their motivation, ideas and working styles and supporting and promoting their development” – this was what Christian and Jeannette zu Fürstenberg had in mind when they launched the “Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch” project in 2011. Both of them have art in their blood: Jeannette comes from a family of collectors in the Ruhr and Christian is an heir of the zu Fürstenberg dynasty, whose collections amassed over centuries can be viewed by the public at the family’s ancestral seat in Donaueschingen. The union of marriage brought two like-minded people together with one aim: “to continue the tradition and both live out and expand our passion for contemporary art.”
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In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. While Hollande’s government in Paris is formally considering the draft law on marriage for alland homoparentality in Milan there is a shy echo: Camera16 is opening a pioneering exhibition, if considered in the Italian cultural environment, that explores the homosexual identity conjugated to the artistic activity through multiple perspectives: both existential and aesthetic.
Read moreFlorence Cantie-Kramer
We went to Unreasonable, the solo exhibition of Florence Cantié-Kramer at Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris. In the exhibition space several materials are in constant opposition and respond in an ongoing dialogue, highlighting in turn their fragility or their density. It is a work of great sensuality, which collide with the sacred and the profane. Materials overlap without losing their raw character.
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Who are you? Where are you from? What do you do? Deniz Kaya. Ankara, Turkey. Final year student at Central Saint Martins, studying Product Design.
Read moreLiu Bolin
Let’s restart the year with an artist the world is totally going crazy for: Liu Bolin. Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist known for his photographic self-portraits in which it is difficult to distinguish the artist from the background. Before taking the photo, Liu Bolin work on a makeup to blend perfectly with the surrounding environment, after studying closely the lines and lights.
Read moreAssunta Waldburg-Zeil Photography
Mausi Herold – Heroldian Jewellery
Ein Hauch 19. Jahrhundert in Berlins Wedding
Christoph Schreiber führt zwei Leben. Tagsüber ist er Neurologe im Krankenhaus und nachts der gefeierte Intendant seiner eigenen kleinen Musikwerkstatt. Der Klaviersalon macht Berlin als Kunstmetropole alle Ehre. Unprätentiös, und doch voll künstlerischer Exzellenz, bietet Schreiber seinem Publikum ein Umfeld, dass den Zuschauer in eine andere Welt mitreißt.
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