A lot of people in the art world had tried to write, as fast as they could, a comment under one of the “Restaurant Drawings” of Jonathan Monk (Leicester, 1969). Why are they doing that? To understand that we have to know Monk’s poetry and practice. Monk, a Berlin-based artist, employs a wide array of
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For our latest edition of Streams, we decided to interview Pascale Marthine Tayou, an internationally renowned Cameroonian artist attentive to social and environmental issues, above all, the pollution of the planet, the depletion of energy resources and related conflicts.The exuberant art of Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon,1966) is rich in symbolic and technical overlaps. The colour
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TBD ULTRAMAGAZINE aka to be defined isn’t just a magazine about contemporary languages, it is a merging hybrid platform continuously exploring the possibilities of not defining itself, while maintaining a structure (zeitgeisting-text-ultra) in which the authors experiment with different themes and forms. TBD was born with the intention of questioning the contemporary era through the
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Adrien van Melle, born in 1987, is a visual artist, photographer and writer based in Paris. The study of identity, representation and time is at the center of his interests. In order to ensure this, Adrien carries out a self-referential investigation, between the fictional narrative and the autobiography, interweaving different disciplines and supports. As much
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Giulia Poppi (b. 1992) is a visual artist based in Bologna. Her work, brazenly hot and material, is imbued with symbolic references that relate to intimacy and mystery. Poppi employs synthetic materials and artificial light to create a plurality of images. These images along with various objects and sketches of artefacts, are orchestrated in complex
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Mohau Modisakeng is a contemporary artist, born in Soweto in 1986. He lives and works between Johannesburg and Cape Town. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2009 and worked towards his Master’s degree at the same institution. His work engages race, the militarization of society, and
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Luka Gallery is an artistic and curatorial collective from Poznań (Poland) existing since 2017. On occasion, but not because of the pandemic, the group has started and is currently rapidly developing a complex curatorial activity set online in the popular game Minecraft. The new gallery branch is called Luka 5G. Its activity is planned for
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Azalea Seratoni: These words by Giorgio Manganelli made me think of you: “[…] personally, however, when I consider Italian literature in its entirety, I do not see a De Sanctis-like or a consistent historiographic framework, but rather an Arabian Nights situation endlessly shifting from one author to the next, from one book to the other,
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