GM — What is Doppelgaenger?
D — Doppelgaenger is a contemporary art gallery focused on research. It is open to projects dealing with the most varied fields of culture and has a speciality in publishing. Doppelgaenger is also a private house and a residence for artists.

GM — How do you choose artists who exhibit in your gallery?
D — The gallery manager also has the same responsibility of a guarantor. The gallery is the place of mediation between the voice of the artist and the world: art collector, museum etc… The choice is entirely personal. Every gallery manager has a vision of work in his mind and he knows exactly how to put into practice. We decided not to exclude collaboration. In such difficult times, it’s necessary that all actors in the system work together: gallery managers, artists, journalists etc… It’s interesting to share visions and to grow together and we think this is possible only with artists of our generation.

GM — Surprisingly, even in avant-gardeartistic expressions, there are many references to “modern” art (Arcimboldi, De Chirico, Pop Art, etc…). What’s behind this return? Is it a rediscovery or an escape from the present?
D — Present is a fact so it justifies itself. The artist lives the present designing the future. Doppelgaenger proceeds on a double trackresearch path. This duality of the project is focused on present figurative arts studies, but also onvideo art experimentations, from installation to performance.

GM — Are there any trends in the world of contemporary art?
D — In the art world, there are not trends but currents and, even unconsciously, artists take part in them. It may seem an insignificant difference but in fact it is not: trends imply an instinctive acceptance while currents originate from a consideration and from a cultural identity. Currents come and go, they may overlap to each otherand clash but they are always a sign of the present.

Words Gaia Mutone

Forget Them spring/summer 2013 — issue 4
the second cover

Dress Valentino.
Photographer Domenico Cennamo, fashion editor Luca Stefanelli.
Make up Tiziana Raimondo at Airport Agency, hair Nori Takabayashi.
Model Rhianna Porter Monster Management.

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Forget Them spring/summer 2013 — issue 4
the first cover

Bra Prada.
Photographer Domenico Cennamo, fashion editor Luca Stefanelli.
Make up Tiziana Raimondo at Airport Agency, hair Nori Takabayashi.
Model Svetlana at Oui Management

The magazine is distributed in the best bookstores of the most important cities in 14 world countries: Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, USA.

autumn/winter 2012 — issue 3

Editor in chief & creative director
Luca Stefanelli
Associate editor
Domenico Cennamo
Art director
Emanuele Zenoni

Contributors
Andoni & Arantxa, Ylinka Barotto, Alena Cherdyntceva, Mauro Demestria, Lara Gilberto, Israel, Lisa Jones, Cristina Karekla, Francesca Lacchini, Giuseppe La Rosa, Gaia Mutone, Silvia Puntino, Sebastian Sabal-Bruce, Marianna Sanvito, Giacomo Simoni, James V. Thomas

Forget Them issue 2 is distributed in the best bookstores of the most important cities in 14 world countries: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, The Netherlands, Singapore, and Taiwan.
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