Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the … [Read more...]
Images of a Changing World: Settai Komura (1887–1940)
Settai Komura (1887–1940) was a refined yet prolific Shin Hanga artist. As a kabuki stage set designer, he produced around 200 works. He also was an … [Read more...]
Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse
Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]
“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean
James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]
Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture
Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]
The Territory as an Abstract Cartography
Waiting to find some time to write a more extensive post, we leave you with the marvelous details of early geological maps from the 19th and 20th … [Read more...]
Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20
Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]
Enzo Mari “Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat” (1967)
A work of the great Italian designer Enzo Mari: Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat (1967) (64 lamps, 64 switches, plexiglas and steel support, 87,5 x … [Read more...]
Mark Lombardi’s Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations
(...) the great question today is the question of globalization, the question of the unity of the world. Globalization proposes to us an abstract … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself
Two days ago Socks featured the work of Mas Yendo. Thanks to Stefano Massa (@doctorcrowd on Twitter) we can update the post with a video interview of … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)
"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works
Right after the entrance of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in a somptuous room where one would expect a big art statement, three works deal almost … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
Otto Dix, Der Krieg (The War) – 1924
First World War was such a traumatic experience for Otto Dix, (he served as a machine-gunner in the Western front from 1914 to 1918) that he later … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba
When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: A Brief History of Collapses, by Mariam Ghani
Starting with this post we dedicate our reviews to artworks that impressed us in Kassel's quinquennial art exhibition dOCUMENTA 13, directed, this … [Read more...]
“Art is a mixture between concept and discipline”: Hanne Darboven
Hanne Darboven was a German prominent conceptual artist, whose most known works were large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten … [Read more...]
The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei
An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]
LUFTSCHLOSS, (Castle in the Air) by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk
Luftschloss (Castle in the air) is an installation realized by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk on Alice-Solomon-Platz in Berlin Hellersdorf during the … [Read more...]
Lotta Nieminen, Helsinki (2010)
Lotta Nieminen is a designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland, living and working in Brooklyn, NY . "Helsinki" is a series of illustrated … [Read more...]
Yoichiro Kamei, Ceramic Works
We're sorry for the recent problems of access to Socks, but we experienced an unexpected burst of traffic that overcame our web-hosting capabilities. … [Read more...]
An experiment to wholeness: Gerd Jansen – Work 1983/84
Gerd Jansen, German … [Read more...]
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