Spring / Summer 2020 – Cover designs by Formafantasma

As we enter into the second decade of the 21st century and in a post-pandemic era, what does the role of humanism play in our society and how is it understood by artists and designers? What are its potential meanings, implications, and even misunderstandings in contemporary culture? TLmag 33 SS 2020 explores The New Age of Humanism as perceived in the field of art and design, contemporary applied arts in connection with the research, scientific and conservation worlds. How is this concept defined with all the values it reflects and put into practice by some of our leading makers and thinkers today and in the future? Among its themes, TLmag 33 will look at humans and how they connect with and relate to each other, the rise in awareness towards climate change and sustainability, the transformation of materials and the attraction for more rawness, new ways of living and consuming, the connections we have with earth and the landscape, the impact of new technologies, engineering and policy making, as well as the key role institutions, platforms and places putting these themes into. TLmag 33 SS 2020 is co-curated by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, from Formafantasma, the Amsterdam-based Italian design duo who have recently been appointed the Heads of the new master’s department called “Geo Design”, at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL and curators of the major exhibition “Cambio” on timber, forestry practices and production strategies surrounding wood at Serpentine Galleries, UK. Formafantasma, whose work is known for its experimental material investigations and for exploring issues such as the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to sustainability and the significance of objects as cultural conduits, are ideal partners for this issue and we are thrilled to have their critical insight. In such fraught political times and with an urgent environmental crisis, how can designers, makers, artists and thinkers contribute to this new age of humanism and most critically, put it into practice?

TLmag 33 SS/PE 2020 – The New Age of Humanism /Un Nouvel Âge de l’Humanisme

Special Guests

-Formafantasma (Italy/Eindhoven, NL)– Cambio at Serpentine Galleries, London, UK – interview of the co-curators TLmag 33, by Rebecca Lewin, curator

-Paul Dujardin (Brussels – Gooik, BE), BOZAR & Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Terzo Paradiso, by Lise Coirier

-Andreas Eriksson, The Painterly artist (Medelplana, Sweden)
On the lake Vänern, Sweden: cut-outs paintings and linen tapestries, Berlin, by Lise Coirier

-Kenya Hara (Tokyo, JP), A Better View – The High Resolution Tours, by Marc Feustel

-Piet Stockmans (Genk, BE), Extreme Measures, by Glenn Adamson & Piet Stockmans, The White Gold Miner, by Lise Coirier

-Luca Guadagnino (Milan IT), Timeless Necessity, by Formafantasma

-Melanie De Biasio (Charleroi, BE/IT), L’Alba, The Voice of the Dawn Light, by Lise Coirier, photo by Frederik Vercruysse

-Enzo Mari (Milan, IT), Triennale retrospective, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator

-Stefano Boeri (Milan, IT), Bosco Verticale, by Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle

Stories

-Frederik Vercruysse (BE), Silent Objects, Still Interiors, new photographic works

-TBA21 Academy (IT) – The Ocean Fellowship Programme at Ocean Space, No Dogma About the Sea, by Angela Rui

–Etel Adnan : The Weight of The World, London, Serpentine Galleries & Koenig Books, 2016

-Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, by Jean-François Jaussaud

Excellence & Creation

Intimacy, poetry and reclaiming the earth

-Jozef Prelis Seihō (BE), Movement in Stillness, An Imaginary Conversation with an Ikebana Master, photo by Yen-An Chen

-Spazio Nobile & Le Sacre de La Matière, A New Era Begins for the Ancienne Nonciature, by Lise Coirier, photo by Jörg Bräuer

-Eva Le Roi (FR/BE), Another Way to Draw the City, by Marie Honnay

-Pao Hui Kao (TW), Paper Pleats & Lacquer Leaf, by Mechteld Jungerius

-Rain Wu (TW), To Appear and Disappear With Lightness, by Rachel Morón

-Pauline Esparon (FR), Raw Materials, by Rachel Morón

-Ann Beate Tempelhaug (NO), Scaling Upwards, by Rachel Morón

-Jesper Eriksson (SE), Fossilized Coal, by Rachel Morón

-Bela Silva (PT-BE), Despierta Corazón Dormido, by Lise Coirier

-Lionel Jadot & Serge Leblon (BE), Les ignorants

-Manon Daviet (FR), The Great Escape, Knitted Landscapes, by Rachel Morón

-Sebastian Cox (UK), Shake Trees, by Adrian Madlener

-Beauty Ngxongo (South Africa), Hlabisa Bench, Woven In Time, with Houtlander and Mash T., by Tracy Lynn Chemaly

-Franc’ Pairon (BE), Fashion, an Industry In Need of a Conductor, by Marie Honnay

-Philip Fimmano & Li Edelkoort, In Praise of Labor (NL)

Living With Art & Design

–Jochen Eisenbrand (DE), Stories from Homefront – Home Stories, 100 Years of Interiors at Vitra Design Museum, by Adrian Madlener

-Wolfgang Tillmans (DE), Today Is the First Day – Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, by Amy Hilton

-Danh Vō (Vietnam – DK): Cathedral Block Prayer Stage Gun, by Olivier Basciano

-Magali Reus (NL): Affective Objects, by Olivier Basciano

-Joanna Piotrowska (PL), Choreographing Uncertainty, by Lara Chapman

–Caravaggio-Bernini at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL, by Formafantasma

Architecture

-Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Brussels, BE), A Rite of Passage, Humanism in Space and Time, by Constanza Rinaldi

-Matilde Cassani (Milan, IT), Alone but Together, by Danica Wilcox

-ROTOR (Brussels, BE), Archæological Practices Applied to Architecture, by Tracy Lynn Chemaly

–ExCinere, Volcanic Matters, Dzek (UK) x Formafantasma

Real Life

-Lido 84, Lake Garda (IT), The Art of The Table, by Formafantasma

-Jana Winderen (UK), Listening to the Ocean, by Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle

-Fairphone (NL), Becoming Fair(er), by Lara Chapman

-Chen Yi Fei (TW), Exploring Facemarks in the Era of Covid-19, by Mechteld Jungerius

–Shifting Paradigms, Towards a Phyto-Centric Design – Plant Fever Exhibition (CID, BE), by Olivier Lacrouts & Laura Drouet