Pedro Wirz: Forever Was Today
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Clay and straw meet dolls and Legos in Wirz's sculptures on threatened ecosystems
The child of an agronomist and a biologist, Swiss Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz (born 1981) creates installations from organic materials and artifacts of the consumer world. With his combination of paradoxical elements, Wirz brings back the original familiarity that used to exist between science and mythology.
Federico Campagna
Federico Campagna is a young Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History (2025), Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents (2021), and Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality (2018).
He is associate fellow at the Warburg Institute, lecturer and tutor at the Royal College of Art, and has lectured in international universities and academies around the world.
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