A Magazine Curated By celebrated the launch of our 24th issue curated by Erdem Moralioglu MBE over a candlelit dinner on Thursday, November 26th at Sessions Arts Club, London.
Come Stai? Bottega Veneta & Gaetano Pesce at Design Miami
Part of an immersive environment for the Bottega Veneta SS2023 show by Matthieu Blazy, the Italian design pioneer Gaetano Pesce created a collection of whimsical chairs entitled Come Stai? — currently on show at Design Miami.
A MAGAZINE CURATED BY ERDEM
Issue No.24 is a cross-cultural, time-travelling exploration of the British-Turkish designer Erdem Moralioglu’s diverse range of sociological and aesthetic references that centres upon the disruptive figures of crucial periods in our collective history.
‘Recycling Beauty’ at Fondazione Prada, Milan
Recycling Beauty, a new exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in the southern reaches of Milan, conjures inertia and posits its contents as a contemporary cipher with which to decode the wonders of a distant past.
Seeing Red with Valentino
Passed down from the namesake founder Valentino Garavani to current creative director and A#20 curator Pierpaolo Piccioli, the colour red is a testament to both the reverence of history and visionary interpretation of Valentino codes imbued by each designer.
Backstage in Paris, Spring Summer 2023 Vol. 2
An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the Spring Summer 2023 collections in Paris, photographed by Adam Katz Sinding.
Personing
Inside A Magazine No.23 Curated By Francesco Risso, the renowned choreographer Michele Rizzo applies his knowledge of the human form into sculpting the curator himself. Bringing questions of human existence to the fore, the Italian cultural practitioner examines the textures of legacy that remain in memory and in nature.
Shaniqwa Jarvis ‘Sleep to Dream’
Treading the line between dream-state and reality, the American photographer and A#21 contributor’s solo exhibition in New York is an ethereal exploration of our earthly existence, contemplating the duality between mother nature and human nature.
Backstage in Paris, Spring Summer 2023 Vol. 1
An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the Spring Summer 2023 collections in Paris, photographed by Adam Katz Sinding.
Francesco Risso’s Angels in America
The A#23 curator stormed Brooklyn this season, staging the Marni Spring Summer 2023 show under the Manhattan Bridge. His embrace of unconventionality and childlike curiosity tapped into the storied bohemian past of New York, a very Marni vision of hippie modernism, and the paintings of A#23 contributor Flaminia Veronesi.
Paloma Blanco Casanova’s “Pornos Tapados”
A showcase of paintings by the Spanish artist and text by Italian photo editor Chiara Bardelli Nonino featured in A Magazine No.23 Curated By Francesco Risso.
DESTE 2022 Vol II: Jeff Koons’ Apollo in Hydra
What intimate and secret bonds can develop between an artist and a patron-collector? Two disparate projects presented in Greece this summer by the DESTE Foundation touch upon this complex question from alternate angles.
DESTE 2022 Vol I: A posthumous tribute to Kaari Upson in Athens
What intimate and secret bonds can develop between an artist and a patron-collector? Two disparate projects presented in Greece this summer by the DESTE Foundation touch upon this complex question from alternate angles.
The Sky Within Each of Us
Designed as a timeless calendar, FUTURA PROXIMA CURATED FOR GUCCI begins with a poignant essay by the Italian philosopher and author Emanuele Coccia.
Object Mythology
An excerpt from the catalogue of a most important sale by auction of the Splendid Rare Private Collection of Oddities and Treasures of Mr Francesco Risso, in two sessions on Saturday morning at seven o’clock sharp and on the following Tuesday evening after sunset.
Saint Laurent in Morocco: Anthony Vaccarello’s ode to The Sheltering Sky
At sunset in the Agafay desert, a subversive ode to Yves Saint Laurent evolved into a spectacular symbiosis of fashion, technology, and mother nature’s wild beauty.
Tanagras: from Picasso to Alaïa
In a passage of artistic references from Ancient Greece to contemporary fashion via Pablo Picasso, Pieter Mulier’s jacquard dresses for the maison Alaïa inspired by the terracotta tanagras figurines create new dialogues with Classical Antiquity and the Spanish master.
Delfina Delettrez’s OBJETSDEVIE
A#14 curator Delfina Delettrez Fendi explores beauty in the banal, with a new line of precious yet utilitarian objets d’art for the home.