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January 2019
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
In April 2013, photographers Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, who have been working together for a dozen years, loaded up their 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser in Switzerland and headed east. They’d already roughly traced their route by running a finger across the map of Eurasia to their ultimate destination, Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. It felt like setting forth on an expedition to the mystical realms of the East: Eurasia, Central Asia, the foothills of
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June 2020
FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: VIOLENCE AT THE THRESHOLD OF DETECTABILITY
A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.
In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Forensic Architecture has not only shed new lig
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November 2020
Six Hands and a Cheese Sandwich
A book about books, a catalogue and an art/bookwork in its own right. By now the appropriation and paraphrasing of Ed Ruscha constitutes a genre of its own. The first were 1968 Bruce Nauman with Burning Small Fires
and 1971 ‘Ed Ruscha’ (actually Joel Fisher) with Six Hands and a Cheese Sandwich, with further appropriations or hommages over the decades, and in the last years it almost became fashionable, the evidence is massive. There is actua
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March 2024
Archivi impossibili
Long before the spread of social networks and recording media made us all potential archivists, contemporary artists rethought forms of cataloguing using languages and media at their disposal, often drawing inspiration from visual compendia and "portable museums" of illustrious 20th-century antecedents such as Warburg's Bilderatlas and Malraux's imaginary museum. From Gerhard Richter's atlas, a collection of thousands of images used as iconographic sources for painting, to Hanne Darboven's album, a monumental cosmology condensing persona
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