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Terrific

N.18 of September 17th, 2015

Cristina Morozzi

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Playing on the ambiguity of the English word terrific, used, both in the negative, indicating something awful (archaic), and the positive to refer to beauty that is out of the ordinary, amazing, in this instalment of The Moodboarders we have put together conflicting issues: good things in bad taste (in the style of Guido Gozzano), artistic follies, exhibitions on the border between fascination and disgust, that touch the senses before reason, figurative obsessions, and playful and naive fantasies. The thermometer registers epochal fluctuations ever more frequent and the confine between good and bad taste is increasingly blurred. Trends follow and chase one another, creating a melting pot of style, “a sort of battlefield”, as it was in the twentieth century, as defined by the artist Barbara Kruger, motherhood, subject of the exhibition “The Great Mother” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the idea of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation and sponsored by the City of Milan (Royal Palace, 26 August to 15 November 2015), a fascinating and disturbing inauguration of the artistic season in Milan.

Cristina Morozzi

Editor-in-chief
editor@themoodboarders.com/old

Playing on the ambiguity of the English word terrific, used, both in the negative, indicating something awful (archaic), and the positive to refer to beauty that is out of the ordinary, amazing, in this instalment of The Moodboarders we have put together conflicting issues: good things in bad taste (in the style of Guido Gozzano), artistic follies, exhibitions on the border between fascination and disgust, that touch the senses before reason, figurative obsessions, and playful and naive fantasies. The thermometer registers epochal fluctuations ever more frequent and the confine between good and bad taste is increasingly blurred. Trends follow and chase one another, creating a melting pot of style, “a sort of battlefield”, as it was in the twentieth century, as defined by the artist Barbara Kruger, motherhood, subject of the exhibition “The Great Mother” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the idea of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation and sponsored by the City of Milan (Royal Palace, 26 August to 15 November 2015), a fascinating and disturbing inauguration of the artistic season in Milan.
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The Moodboarders is a glance into the design world, which, in all of its facets, captures the extraordinary even within the routine. It is a measure of the times. It is an antenna sensitive enough to pick-up on budding trends, emerging talents and neglected aesthetics. Instead of essays, we use brief tales to tune into the rhythm of our world. We travelled for a year without stopping, and seeing as the memory of this journey has not faded, we have chosen to edit a printed copy. We eliminated anything episodic, ephemeral or fading, maintaining a variety of articles that flow, without losing the element of surprise, the events caught taking place, and the creations having just bloomed.