Designers and artists enamoured with porcelain, Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin met in New York and have lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty years. Here, borrowing from both Chinese and western traditions, they make unique pieces and experimental single series, testing the limits of ceramic matter.
Tommaso Corvi Mora, of Italian origin, based on London with a contemporary art gallery (he too an artist), talks to us of the importance of feeling foreign, both in his gallery activities and as a creator.
These are the words of the architect and co-founder of the firm TAMassociati, specialised in social and health projects in critical areas, in a blend of civil commitment and profession.
The winner of the 2022 Pritzker Prize connected the North and South of the world through architecture, the driver of his positive energy. He states: “We have to be optimistic, or we will not be able to build the world for tomorrow, making the present better”. Here are his reasons and his story.
The world we live in has changed radically. Life in the 21st century moves in an interconnected, multicultural and diversified world that is evolving rapidly, where emerging economic, digital, cultural, demographic and environmental forces determine the human existence, increasing encounters and conflicts, risks and opportunities.
In the new Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, designed by MAD Architects, the inaugural exhibition All Directions narrates migration as a personal and collective experience through six fundamental themes. We talked with the curator Hanneke Mantel.
As old as Arab calligraphy and as modern as the hip hop culture, both abstract and figurative, the works of the Franco-Tunisian artist celebrate the dual cultural identity of their creator, spreading messages of peace.
Repeated border crossings, from one side of the Atlantic to the other and on the American continent, are one of the privileged keys for interpreting the works of the Italo-Brazilian artist leading an exhibition in the museum in Paris dedicated to Pablo Picasso, another great “migrant” of art.
The Nigerian designer who returned to Lagos after training in Europe is one of the key interpreters of the local creative scene. A firm believer of the special practical intelligence of Africa, he strives to enhance all things local, from culture to production techniques.
A US artist, Lola Montes set up her atelier in Sicily a few years ago. We met her to listen to her life story on the other side of the Atlantic and to better understand her artistic ceramic and painted art.
