Designed as a timeless calendar, FUTURA PROXIMA CURATED FOR GUCCI begins with a poignant essay by the Italian philosopher and author Emanuele Coccia.
Alessandro Michele’s Cosmogony
Cosmogony (cos·mog·o·ny) – 1: a theory of the origin of the universe, 2: the creation or origin of the world or universe.
Simon Denny’s ‘Resident 1, 2021’
The New Zealand-born artist describes his quilted rugby jersey featured in Futura Proxima, as it relates to colonial and capitalist powers that continue to exert influence on modern society.
An Evening Divining the Future
Discover the launch of FUTURA PROXIMA at an exhibition of new works throughout the ornate salons of Galerie Gismondi, Paris.
FUTURA PROXIMA CURATED FOR GUCCI
A spiral-bound, perforated ‘calendar’ magazine exploring 12 months with 12 artists divining the future through their thinking and their craft, conceived on the occasion of Gucci’s 100-year anniversary.
Alessandro Michele’s Mosaic of a Century
Gucci Aria was a hybrid sartorial time-lapse, with traces of the past and present scattered with possibilities of what may lie ahead.
Gus Van Sant’s Gucci odyssey
A#16 curator Alessandro Michele and American director Gus Van Sant discuss their 7-part series ‘Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended’ before the premiere of GucciFest, a landmark online film festival created by Gucci debuting November 16 – 22, 2020.
‘No Space, Just a Place: Eterotopia’, Daelim Museum, Seoul
An interview with curator Myriam Ben Salah on the occasion of Gucci’s first contemporary art exhibition at the Daelim Museum in Seoul, bringing together independent Korean art spaces and international artists to respond to questions of togetherness, identity and utopias.