Dune Vol. 003 n. 001 – “Shortcuts”

The fifth issue of Dune sets out to celebrate the visionary talent of Virgil Abloh, founder of the Off-White brand and creative director of Louis Vuitton, who died last year at the age of forty-one. His name does not appear on the cover: it has been chosen instead to use one of the words that serves to identify his work, Shortcuts, taken from his legendary lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2017. In this issue it is Michael Darling, curator of the exhibition and book Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” who describes Abloh’s work through the concept of the shortcut. The issue’s other articles can be seen as case studies of this notion, bearing witness to its wealth and critical and interpretative productivity: an undervalued, clearly interdisciplinary potentiality and one that the various contributions to the journal show to be worthy of further exploration, from an even broader and more diverse perspective.

On cover: Alan Chies, Growing Forest, 2022. Courtesy and © Alan Chies. Special project conceived for Dune, with the collaboration of PERSONA.

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