Giacomo Costa uses digital technology to generate a futuristic urban landscape. These fantastic, apocalyptic images borrow their aesthetic from science fiction literature and film, where architecture takes on a colossal scale. Pulverized landscapes and lonely structures that inhabit anonymous cities are constant elements in his series, a metaphor for the depersonalization that affects the contemporary metropolis whose buildings soar above the human scale.

If you love art, meeting artists enriches your life and brings you closer to an intangible world that you yearn for, but don’t experience in your everyday life. The eternal Faustian desire to “know what holds the inner world together” lies dormant in us all and needs to be satisfied. We may not realise the dream, but we must still dream it, and each of us does so in our own way. The book and the exhibition document the quest of Luxembourgish gallerist Marita Ruiter over th…

Summertime... and the living is easy... If you need a vacation before your vacation, come and feast your eyes on the images of summer ease and glory at Galerie Clairefontaine: the feeling is layed back, the wind blows softly through the palm trees in the pictures of some of the best artists of the world, while jazzy songs come to your mind (and ears) and make you feel like you’re on holiday.

PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG workshops lectures exhibitions June 19 - 24, 2006 information: +352 472324 subscribe to newsletter: info@photomeetings.lu Mass Media Manipulation Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and remain instantly accessible. Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what Walter Benjamin cal…