Category Archives: thematic pills

There are catastrophes whose marks are not visible on the earth’s surface. Not apocalyptic destructions, but rather narrow cracks in the everyday fabric. Usually, the cause that brings about the ruin is an external and invasive force, an intruder that interrupts the smooth flow of everyday existence, that creates breaking points and brings about devastating […]

We went to the Lisson Gallery in London for the “Dedicated to the workers and Unemployed” exhibition, a major retrospective which, featuring over fifty-three videos, but also photographs and sculptural projects, allowed us to delve into a journey through the work by Santiago Sierra, a Spanish artist worldwide known for his inspired and rigorous research […]

Who has never tried to escape from reality, as a child, by playing to impersonate the idols of some training books or of adventure tv series? Even the Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner (Ramat Gan, 1969) did it, and when he grew up, he continued to do so, involving his children in the creation of crazy […]

[email protected] ::: guest – azt    [email protected]: what do you strike more when you just met someone. azt – The unexpressed variables. There is an infinite range of variables and possibilities to discover, verify, investigate… the person in front of me is a world to tell and my brain begins to structure our conversation in […]

A kind of philosophy arose in the medieval period obsessed with the occult power of precious stones and gems. People believed that these stones were invested with the powers of the stars, a way to deliver the magical virtue of the heavens. The soundtrack to Black Mass Rising, which accompanies a film by Bruxelles artist […]

Il Teatro degli Orrori stop off at Estragon, in Bologna, to present the new album Il Nuovo Mondo (of which we already talked about a while ago), and a few hours before the live, while sound check and rehearsals are going on and cigarettes smoke is in the air, DROME meets again Pierpaolo Capovilla, who […]

Rome, Lille, Marseille… stages of a present and in progress path, where places and materials interact with the creativity of the Ortas – Lucy (Sutton Coldfield, UK 1966) and Jorge (Rosario, Argentina 1953), in an atmosphere of synergy with an extraordinarily large and diverse team of collaborators. Their research explores social and environmental art, by […]

After the extensive show dedicated to Pieter Hugo, which ended last April 29, the photographic section of MAXXI Museum in Rome continues in its programming putting the spotlight on one of the most interesting contemporary Italian photographers (that DROME already had the pleasure to discover some months ago, on show at Le Bal in Paris, […]

Joanna Malinowska says: “This is my Paris Boli. Not a bison. The Boli for Parisian bourgeois, with the dynamite of Pierrot Le Fou. The Boli for the African women in colorful dresses on the metro (what is the color of the sacred?). The Boli of water from the Meret Oppenheim fountain. The Boli of cultural […]

The world changes. Transformation is constant and only transformation permits consistence. We change. We get old. No we don’t get old, how can you say that 100 years is old when the world exist since – when ? I look at myself in the mirror. It look in myself. I am so young… But I […]