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October 2020
FOAM MAGAZINE #57: In Limbo
IN LIMBO addresses our current state of being, suspended and in vacuum. This issue reflects on how we are experiencing the two main topics of our time - a global pandemic and social challenges - while looking at how this could be a fundamental chance to shift our questions on photography: stop asking "what photography is" and start consciously talking about "what photography can do" and "what we want photography to do". Shortly, we are addressing the emotional limbo, the political limbo, the sudde
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January 2024
Older than love
Older Than Love is a multimedia work that starts from the artist's personal relationship with his father, developing it through the metaphor of the hawk and its prey, and creating a parallel between animal and human aggression. The work deals with the theme of aggression and associated subthemes such as fear, anger, and love, emphasizing that an element of aggression is inherent in every bond of attachment.
The multimedia installation consists of photography, a
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June 2020
C3 327: CULTURAL AND PUBLIC / SCHOOLS IN SHADOWS AND WIND / A CURIOUS MUSEUM TRIO BY TOYO ITO
In this issue C3 focus on new public buildings such as museums and schools designed in mostly Africa, Asia and Latin America. Inspired by themes such as urban landscape and shadows and wind, the editors of C3 have chosen a rich collection of modern architecture which symbolizes a new world. Designs by architects such as Selgascano, Rudanko+ Kankkunen, Toyo Ito and Edward Ng are described in detail.
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May 2020
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING IN THE WORK OF GERHARD RICHTER: FOUR ESSAYS ON ATLAS
This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter's monumental project Atlas, an assemblage of photographs that he has collected since 1962. Atlas, which at present comprises more than 5,000 images -- ranging from political portraits to landscapes and from found photojournalistic pictures to photographs taken by the artist himself -- constitutes an ordered collection of personal visual memories from which Richter draws the themes and motifs for his ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting. Buchloh examines At
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