In the northern French region scarred also physically by mining activities, the local antenna of the famous museum went “20,000 leagues below the earth”, investigating the artists’ relationship with the real and imagined universes hidden beneath our feet.
According to Amy Kulper, the exhibition at Palazzo Reale offers insight into the key concepts of the birth of modernity: industrialisation, new materials and women’s autonomy.
In the Twenties, aesthetic codes borrowed from the avant-garde movements and technical progress went hand in hand to develop a new decorative language: stylised geometric patterns that immediately spoke to a wide audience. A dynamic and treasured expertise handed down by design.
Art Deco was already waning in the early Thirties. This was the time when applied decorative arts made way for industrial design. The language of objects abandons decoration to become synthetic, intuitive, immediate. The extraordinary series of red earthenware vases concluding the exhibition ‘Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità’ at Palazzo Reale bears witness to this.
A meeting with the author of “Il giardino di notte” to investigate his very personal use of rare earths and light.
The blend of art and technique is a leitmotiv of Art Deco, and here is demonstrated by the magnificent vase by Dagobert Peche, decorated with a spray gun and on display at the exhibition ‘Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità’ at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
The Lagos-born artist who lives in Canada has been reflecting on the colonial heritage of his country for years, starting from the earth. His works tell how mineral mining has shaped the face of Nigeria.
On 15th April, we have celebrated National Made in Italy Day, recalling the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, which opened in Paris exactly one century ago, in 1925.
A book that brings together the extraordinary photographic exploration of Edward Burtynsky in the ‘residual landscapes’, changed by our way of life. Not merely images but thought-provoking tools.
Humus starts its journey by looking at the ground, on which not only our feet but also our homes, cities, factories and roads stand; and where orchards, wheat fields and woods spread their roots. Our whole existence is based on that which may seem just a surface, but which in fact is much more. Because it has a thickness, a depth, a history and a very intense life.
