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Rosso Fiorentino - Moses and the Daughters

Rosso Fiorentino - Moses and the Daughters

From Rosso Fiorentino early Florentine works, he displayed a particularly original style, characterised by a strong anti-classical energy, which tended to break out of the balanced Renaissance framework and favour innovative formal solutions with a powerful, dramatic charge.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Filippo Lippi - Madonna with Child

Filippo Lippi - Madonna with Child

Madonna with Child (Italian: Madonna col Bambino e angeli or Lippina) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Filippo Lippi. The date in which it was painted is unknown, but most art historians agree that it was painted during the last part of Lippi’s career, between 1450 and 1465.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Raphael - Portrait of LeoX

Raphael - Portrait of LeoX

The Portrait of Pope Leo X with two Cardinals is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, executed c. 1518-1520.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi

Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi

Sandro Botticelli was commissioned to paint at least seven versions of The Adoration of the Magi by the Medici family in around 1475.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Moghul Miniatures

Moghul Miniatures

Mughal painting is a particular style of South Asian confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums. In this movie, a set of several paintings: Chamsa and Dancing Dervish, located in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Germany; Akbar tames the Savage Elephant, Hawai, outside the Red Fort at Agra and Akbar’s forces besieging Rai Surjan Hada in Ranthambore Fort, both located in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK; Emperor Jahangir holding a portrait of Emperor Akbar that is now Musee Guimet in Paris, France.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

“Before humans there was an architecture that life itself creates.” Meet the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo who in this short video reflects about an architect called time: “There is an incredible order created by nature.”

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

It is much more than just a building. It’s a social space. It really has an impact on the society, on the community”, says German architect Anna Heringer about her recently finished Anandaloy-center in Bangladesh. “With this building everything comes together.”

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

“It’s a living material, and so are we.” In this short video, two architects from the influential and prizewinning Danish architecture firm, Vandkunsten Architects, talk about the merits of wood as a building material – from its climate-friendly qualities to its soothing effect.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

“I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time is money. No, time is the only resource we have when we are alive. What else do we have?” asks the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo in this video.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

“Architecture, I believe, is necessary to mark collective memory.” One of the leading contemporary American architects, Peter Eisenman, here shares the thoughts that went into building the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and how he sought to transform a feeling of “being lost in space in time” into the memorial.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Meet Terunobu Fujimori, one of Japan’s most influential architects, who has enchanted the world with his playful, often elevated buildings made of natural materials such as wood, earth and stone. In this short video, Fujimori talks about his original interpretations of a traditional Japanese building – his iconic raised tea houses.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

How can the built environment work with nature instead of against it? Watch the award-winning Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao offer her take on this, emphasizing the enriching dialogue between nature and architecture, which we must be very cautious to preserve.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

“If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create,” says the renowned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Learn about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape ‘Water Garden’, in this short video.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Lockdown Schmockdown

Lockdown Schmockdown

Check Season 4 under COVIDecameron Channel from Momentum Worldwide

Duration : 16s
Maturity Level : all

Olafur Eliasson on “Life”

Olafur Eliasson on “Life”

At the Fondation Beyeler, Eliasson states: “Increasingly I have grown interested in efforts to consider life not from a human-centric perspective but from a broad, biocentric perspective. I’ve found myself turning nouns into verbs – when I go through my exhibition, I try to tree, for instance – in order to become aware of perspectives that go beyond what we humans can properly imagine.”

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

MIND THE GAP

MIND THE GAP

Greta Thunberg: "This is an emergency alert for the general public"

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

A wonder: the Gilt-Silver Altarpiece at the Church of San Salvador, Venice

A wonder: the Gilt-Silver Altarpiece at the Church of San Salvador, Venice

The San Salvador altarpiece is a wonder. It is located since the 16th century on the main altar of the church of San Salvador, but ‘screened’ – like theatre scenery – by Titian’s painting of the Transfiguration of Christ, and is revealed only during the three festivals of Christmas, Easter, and the Transfiguration. Very few, including Venetians, know of the existence of this very precious masterpiece.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

"Our Choices"

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Duration : 22s
Maturity Level : all

Farideh Lashai

Farideh Lashai

"When I count, there are only you…but when I look, there is only a shadow" (2012-13), a video installation inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War. Farideh Lashai removed the figures and modified the images in this iconic print series in order to present them accompanied by animated images which are projected onto them from a moving spotlight.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

MENART FAIR

MENART FAIR

For the lucky ones who can be in Paris from May 27-30th, please visit MENART FAIR, the first international modern and contemporary art fair, dedicated to artists from the Middle East & North Africa selected this year by 22 must-see galleries. More information: menart-fair.com Many videos from these galleries are on a dedicated channel here on ikonoTV

Duration : 17s
Maturity Level : all

Galleria Continua presents Etel Adnan

Galleria Continua presents Etel Adnan

Poet, short story writer, essayist, and artist Etel Adnan was born in Beirut in 1925 to a Syrian Muslim father and a Greek Christian mother. Adnan grew up among the landscapes of Lebanon and Syria before moving to France for a time, and then to America.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Galleria Continua presents Ahmed Matter

Galleria Continua presents Ahmed Matter

Physician turned artist, Ahmed Mater is one of the most significant cultural voices documenting and scrutinising the realities of contemporary Saudi Arabia. Forging an ongoing, complex mapping of the Kingdom, his practice explores collective memories to uncover and record unofficial histories. The historical, geographical and topical breadth of his research-led inquiries is sharpened by the incisive actions of his conceptual works. With this scope, Mater imagines possible prognoses for a land of unprecedented religious, social, economic, and political influence.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Galleria Continua presents Moataz Nasr

Galleria Continua presents Moataz Nasr

Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr explores traditions and new globalism, questioning geopolitical and social development in Africa. The artistic practice for Nasr is a tool and a language that embraces art, sociology, Sufism and history, in order to encourage dialogue across geographical boundaries.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Mono Gallery presents Muatasim Al Kubaisy

Mono Gallery presents Muatasim Al Kubaisy

Born in 1968 in Baghdad, Iraq. Al Kubaisy graduated in 1991 from the Fine Art Academy of the University of Baghdad, Al Kubasiy currently working as a professor of Pottery and Sculpture at Sharjah Collections of Art and an "Artist Adviser" for upcoming and existing artists.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all