A two-minute animated voyage through some of the most iconic masterpices of modern architecture. Illustration, animation and music by Matteo Muci.
Category: English edition
Cambridge and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Historical towns that kept old buildings, cobbled streets founded by English Puritans in 1630.
Christos Chrissopoulos: Look Twenty – The world left behind
[The world left behind, 20 photographs and cover photograph. Shot in Athens, 2014. Original music by Thierry Jolif].
«When I walk in Athens, I often have the impression that I have been left behind. As if the city had been abandoned. Sometimes I feel that everyone ‘s gone just a moment ago».
Deste Fashion Collection: 1 to 8
Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Matthew Monteith, The Look, August 2013
Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace (Mars et Vénus, allégorie sur la Paix)
Artist: Louis Jean François Lagrenée [French, 1725 – 1805]
Christos Chrissopoulos: Look Twenty – My mother’s silence
[Shot in Athens. April 2014. 20 photographs and 1 cover image. Music by Christos Chrissopoulos]
«I visit my mother’s apartment when she is away. I believe that, in this way, I can understand better how she lives. I go from to room looking closely at every object that keeps her company. Objects do not lie».
Christos Chrissopoulos: Look Twenty – HOTEL ROOMS
[HOTEL ROOMS, 20 photographs and cover photograph. Images from hotel rooms at different European cities. Various locations, 2012-2014. Background music: Music by “Dahlia’s Tear” (copyright free)] “Writers travel a lot. Very often, I visit cities previously unknown to me. Just for a night or two. I spend my evenings photographing my room and the hotel corridors”.
Books to read this summer
To Lexikopoleio is a bookshop where you are bound to spend time browsing the shelves and discovering new books.
La Biennale di Venezia 55th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia 55th International Art Exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) Venice (Giardini and Arsenale)
Jannis Kounellis: I saw the sanctity of everyday objects
You don’t need a reason to write about the internationally acclaimed Greek artist Jannis Kounellis.
Below is a brief glance at his life and artistic career from an interview I did in 2004 with the artist himself and with some of his closest friends.
David Foster Wallace: This is Water
David Foster Wallace was a hyper-anxious chronicler of the minute details of a certain kind of upper-middle-class American life. In his hands, it took on sometimes luminous, sometimes jaundiced qualities.