Artissima Unplugged 2020’s sustainable art prize has a winner
The winner of the 2020 FTP Prize for Sustainable Art, created to highlight the need for environmental awareness in contemporary art, has been announced.
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Artissima Unplugged 2020, the digital contemporary art fair open to all
Artissima, Italy’s most important contemporary art fair, starts in November. Due to the pandemic, it has been transformed into an innovative virtual experience.
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Mulberries, silk weaving supports communities and traditions in Laos
Mulberries is a silk weaving organisation that offers a source of sustainable livelihood for people in Laos, as well as preserving the value of traditional lifestyles.
Lines of light on a Scottish island make sea level rise visible
Lines (57° 59’N, 7° 16’W) is an installation located in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, that shows the future we could face due to global warming: underwater. But it’s also a call to act to avoid that this scenario becomes reality.
Season’s greetings, the Banksy mural in Port Talbot transforms snowflakes into air pollution
Snowflakes can be deceiving. Banksy transformed them from a marker of winter festivities into a symbol of the plague of air pollution in his mural Season’s greetings in Port Talbot, Wales.
Unhappily ever after, fairy tales don’t have a happy ending in the real world
Artist Jeff Hong imagined how Disney fairy tales’ characters would live in the real world: the result – or better the ending – is everything but happy.
These images are made with thousands of plastic objects. Chris Jordan shows us the size of our impact on the world
Il fotografo Chris Jordan ci fa visualizzare le conseguenze delle nostre azioni sul Pianeta. Le foto di Running the numbers ci fanno capire che, come un tassello di un mosaico, ognuno di noi ha il proprio ruolo nel mondo.
Alebrijes, how fantastic wooden animals keep indigenous culture in Oaxaca alive
We speak to Angélico Jiménez from Oaxaca, Mexico, an artist who carves alebrijes. These fantastic wooden animal figures and their unique patterns preserve Zapotec identity and empower his community.
Visible Distance / Second Sight, when billboards become panoram-ads
Visible Distance / Second Sight is an innovative project by artist Jennifer Bolande to cover publicity billboards with pictures of the panoramas they hide, in California.
Ciak! Kibera. With great responsibility comes great power
“Ciak! Kibera” is the project that gave life to a documentary filmed in the streets of the slum of Kibera, Kenya, one of Africa’s biggest. And its plot is made of dreams.