TLmag 30 Extended: Archæology Now!

Kalpa Galleries presents a selection of British artist Eleanor Lakelin’s contemporary wood sculptures in dialogue with key historic vessels from the Etruscan Museum of Volterra through September 15, 2024.

The Institut Giacometti in Paris presents “Envisagement”, a new exhibition that places the work of the artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri in dialogue with Alberto Giacometti. The exhibition is on view through March 24, 2024.

With “Contemporary Archeology” and “Blue Mythology,” the new online design platform, Metamorphosis, offers a new approach for buyers and design lovers to engage with beautiful design objects in a refined and exciting way.

benandsebastian’s art works interplay between real (arte)facts and fiction, inspired by architecture and the romantic vision of ruins. In TLmag30, Lise Coirier interviews the duo about their practice and fictional installation “The Department of Voids”.

Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s 2019 show “Kunststoff, Gallery of Material Culture” at Wiels brought together 40 ‘living’ artworks to reflect upon Western culture, art history, and mythology. TLmag spoke with the Brussels-based artist about the exhibition and his practice.

50 years have passed since the death of Carlo Mollino. This may be little time when speaking about archæology, but in the electronic era, this half-century separating us from Mollino – designer, architect, inventor, artist, photographer, thinker, dreamer – has taken us on a journey through time. Another reality allows us to speak of Mollino in archæological terms: his secret house, inspired by the Egyptian principle of the need to build a house to shelter our future existence: the pyramid.

Erez Nevi Pana’s research gives an answer to a specific question: is it possible to conceive design without using any kind of material derived from animals? Born in Bnei Brak (Israel) in 1983, the designer transfers his attitude of deep respect towards life.

Mounir Fatmi has always been curious about the transformation of objects and how, with a slight change of context or position, they can take on entirely new meanings. Now, he regularly goes back into the archive, transforming materials into a highly charged body of work.

Greek artist Athina Ioannou maximizes and reinterprets painting through minimal and economic means. Her sensuous ‘abstract’ painting – what she refers to as ‘plus-painting’ – arises from the ‘intensification’ of ready-made carriers through the patient all-over saturation of her work with linseed oil.

Here, TLmag presents a conversation between Lebanese artist and designer Ali Cherri and professor and the director of International relations of the DAI in Berlin, Friedrich Lüth.

In this critical essay that traces Piet Stockmans’ oeuvre, cultural philosopher Willem Elias dissects the concepts and issues surrounding the influential Flemish designer and ceramist’s works.

By focusing on craft and materiality as a common fabric, curator and writer Glenn Adamson’s practice hopes to cross cultural and language barriers alike. TLmag spoke to Glenn to learn more about his extensive research on material culture, his thoughts on distributed authorship and the need for designers and artists to create curiosity in fraught political times.