A famous story wondered what would happen if we used 100 percent of our brains, and I never know whether to be happy to know that someday we might discover the magic potion by becoming all super humans, or to be disappointed that I use less than half of that brain. Artists-as well as Silicon Valley startuppers-have resorted to various techniques to get in touch with a more complete part of one’s self, often involving micro (or macro) doses of natural and synthetic drugs, according to several studies confirmed to be effective albeit with some contraindications.
Neapolitan artist and researcher Danilo Correale has created yet another tool that would enable men to resist the “bullying of time” and thanks to hypnosis free themselves from the condition of work compulsion that society imposes on many people.

“Reverie, on the Liberation from Work“-this is the name of Correale’s project-is an exercise in hypnosis, born out of a collaboration with a New York hypnotherapist, who helped the artist create a script capable of relaxing the senses and mentally bringing humans out of their physical condition. Reverie follows a long research Danilo Correale carries out on sleep and wakefulness, two concepts that have radically changed in recent decades due to environmental, technological and, in the artist’s view, work-related factors.
The union of speech and music would lead listeners to escape the present, and the listening sessions organized in recent years are to be understood as real artistic performances, which make them discover a new connection between humans and time, between humans and their own social role. In addition to these listening sessions, the project consists of a vinyl, in which Side A is titled “Liberation” while Side B is that of “Transition,” both 21:20 minutes long.

As mentioned, Danilo Correale’s finger is pointed at work, which is no longer necessary in the dimension of “Reverie, on the Liberation from Work.” The listener is led to reflect on awareness of his or her own life path, leaving aside the propagada that, according to the artist, constantly puts people under judgment.
A turntable or gradient with gradient colors will potreranno to a new “path leading to this new present as a collective achievement, your anticipation of a post-work future.” Who knows it might work, without LSD or hallucinogenic frogs.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, also known as the “Nobel Prize for Architecture,” is now in its 46th year, and on Tuesday, March 7, the prize for 2023 was awarded.
The winner is British architect David Chipperfield (1953), who in the past has signed the design of the MUDEC in Milan, among others, and more recently worked on the restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie surrounding the three sides of St. Mark’s Square in Venice (2022).
Among past winners, the first woman was Zaha Hadid, and out of forty-six awards given, two are Italian. Aldo Rossi was awarded the prize in 1990 while Renzo Piano in 1998. The last winner in 2022, however, was Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso), the first architect of African descent to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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The award was established in 1979 by the Hyatt Foundation of the Pritzker family and involves the awarding of a medal and a $100,000 prize. The family comes from a lineage of Jewish lawyers of Ukrainian origin who emigrated to the U.S. ten years after the Great Chicago Fire (1871), moving from Kiev to this very city. The disastrous event allowed the city, through total reconstruction and the invention of the elevator, to pioneer a new way of conceiving space with a revolutionary new structure, that of the skyscraper.
The structure and role of Chicago – the world’s first vertical city – undoubtedly influenced Jay Pritzker, entrepreneur and founder of the Hyatt hotel chain, who, aware of the power and importance of architecture, founded with his wife Cindy an annual award for great designers. The award, as the official manifesto states, is given “to honor a living architect whose completed works demonstrate a combination of talent, vision and commitment, and who has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.”

On April 15, 2019, images of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral in flames shocked the world. Almost three years after the tragic incident, organizers have estimated a date on which the monument can reopen to the public: December 2024, presumably on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
The medieval Gothic jewel took nearly 200 years to build, from 1163 to 1345, undergoing enrichment work over the centuries such as the famous Viollet-Le-Duc spire of 1844, which was destroyed in the fire, as was the entire structure, leaving only the facade and two towers intact. Currently, visitors can visit the square and the underground crypt, as well as admire the beautiful facade, which is always illuminated at night.

The coronation site of Napoleon and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, the Parisian cathedral will soon return to its former glory. Reconstruction work began in 2022 and will stick faithfully to the original form with modernization work only on the interior for conservation purposes, including planting more vegetation in the surrounding area. Documenting the fire and the current reconstruction and restoration work is an exhibition that will open on March 14, 2023 in the cathedral’s underground crypt and remain open until April 29, 2024. Entitled “Notre-Dame de Paris: At the Heart of the Construction Site,” the exhibition traces the history of Notre-Dame, and among the exhibits will be the charred remains of the 2019 fire.

With just a few weeks to go before the start of Milan Design Week, the most famous design brands are preparing their projects, while others have already started – or continue – to publish interesting ones to tell their stories to the outside world, as in the case of lighting company FLOS.
In fact, the Italian brand founded in Merano (BZ) in 1962 a few weeks ago involved two illustrators and a designer for a branding campaign, which resulted in the creation of a comic book, with the experience of a customer and FLOS lamps at the center.
It is a story conceived by British designer Michael Anastassiades, and drawn by the creative duo of illustrator Andy Rementer and American art director with Italian roots Margherita Urbani. The vignettes recount a customer’s experience while showing the ease with which lights can be assembled. A creative and fun idea that succeeds in telling the story of the brand and the features of the products, with a sense of humor and liveliness given by the style of the illustrations, characterized by a varied color palette and elementary lines.

“LET THERE BE LIGHT”

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