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April 2021

New Queer Photography

Art, more than anything, opens up the possibility of approaching oneโ€™s own sexuality beyond the limits imposed by taboos. Not only does it allow for a risk-free, playful exploration of gender and forbidden desires, but it is unique in capturing its contradictions. In recent years, a young and active queer photography scene has emerged, helped in large part by social media. Indulging their desire for self-presentation, affirmation, and reflection, many photographers portray male hom
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October 2021

รcaro

In order to escape from the labyrinth in which they had been imprisoned, Daedalus made a pair of wings for himself and for his son Icarus. Flying would make them free. In his enthusiasm, after taking flight Icarus got too close to the sun, as a result of which the heat melted the wax that held the feathers on his back and he ended up falling into the sea and drowning. Over the course of
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January 2020

L’ARTE NELLO SPAZIO URBANO – L’ESPERIENZA ITALIANA DAL 1968 A OGGI

The term Public art is a term that refers to a wide range of experiences, including political or playful operations, ephemeral projects to transform places and landscapes, participatory actions, small everyday activities brought out into the open, and forms of active exploration of a given area. But what has been Italyโ€™s experience with this artistic practice? Italian artists have followed many distinct paths, in their reinvention of the relationship between space and the
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March 2020

KOAN

Koan is the possibility to open up the territory of pre-verbal. As human beings, our reality based on symbolic matrix, so all possibility of our thoughts and wisdom be covered and limited by signifying chain. Only vision as a product of the non-material is closer to a concept of purity, so through photography as my own philosophical approach, I try to explore beneath the surface of things by simpli cation and abstraction to awak
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September 2023

Smoke

A tribute to Benjamin, singer, poet, symbol and protagonist of the underground scene, and to Cabbageton, a poor neighbourhood in Atlanta. Conceived as a scrapbook, it combines Ackerman's photographs, pages of Benjamin's notes and archive documents, texts by Jem Cohen (who dedicated a beautiful documentary to Benjamin) and Patti Smith - who was close to him. A very special book that manages to reveal the infinite grace, urgency, delicacy and frenzy of a man and a musical and
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November 2019

HOW TO SECURE A COUNTRY

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the presence and production of national security. When in 2014 Swiss people voted in favor of a federal popular initiative โ€œagainst massive immigration,โ€ Salvatore Vitale, an immigrant living in Switzerland felt the nee
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