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Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work)

December 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

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Images of a Changing World: Settai Komura (1887–1940)

December 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

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...]

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Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse

November 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, japanism, satire, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean

October 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, land art, psychogeographies, visions, world weird web

Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture

October 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

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The Territory as an Abstract Cartography

October 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Art, information graphics, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20

September 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, review, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Enzo Mari “Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat” (1967)

August 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

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Mark Lombardi’s Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations

August 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 12 Comments

(...) 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...]

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Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself

August 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

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Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times

August 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

“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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, industrial design, past futures, psychogeographies, social, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, literature, magazines, movies, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"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...]

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dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

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dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

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Otto Dix, Der Krieg (The War) – 1924

August 4, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

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dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba

August 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]

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dOCUMENTA 13: A Brief History of Collapses, by Mariam Ghani

July 31, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

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“Art is a mixture between concept and discipline”: Hanne Darboven

July 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hanne Darboven was a German prominent conceptual artist, whose most known works were large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, form of form, paperworks

The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei

July 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

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LUFTSCHLOSS, (Castle in the Air) by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk

July 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, psychogeographies

Lotta Nieminen, Helsinki (2010)

June 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Lotta Nieminen is a designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland, living and working in Brooklyn, NY . "Helsinki" is a series of illustrated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Art, illustrations, maps, urban chronicles

Yoichiro Kamei, Ceramic Works

June 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, japanism

An experiment to wholeness: Gerd Jansen – Work 1983/84

June 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Gerd Jansen, German … [Read more...]

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