Summer 2024 Issue

Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire:
Luca Guadagnino

In this ongoing series, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has devised a set of thirty-seven questions that invite artists, authors, musicians, and other visionaries to address key elements of their lives and creative practices. Respondents select from the larger questionnaire and reply in as many or as few words as they desire. For the second installment of 2024, we are honored to present the filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.

Luca Guadagnino. Photo: Giulio Ghirardi

HUOWhat is your unrealized project?

LGThe one that makes me sigh the most, and that I will fight to accomplish, is always the one I’m working on currently: Will it get made? And also a kitchen garden.

Hans Ulrich ObristThe future is . . . ?

Luca GuadagninoNow. And it’s bleak.

HUOHow would you like to die?

LGIn a flash.

HUOWhat is your favorite color?

LGImperial yellow.

HUOAre there any quotes you live by?

LG“I am old and I cannot sleep,” by Alice Goodman, for the libretto of John Adams’s Nixon in China (1987).

HUOWhat is your plan for the coming years?

LGRetire and harvest.

HUO[Added by the author Joy Williams] In what guise does your worst nightmare appear?

LGPast loved ones.

Black-and-white portrait of Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino was born in Palermo, Italy, on August 10, 1971, to a Sicilian father and an Algerian mother. He is a director, producer, screenwriter, architect, and designer. An Academy Award nominee in 2018 and winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice Film Festival in 2022, he lives in Milan. Photo: Giulio Ghirardi

Black-and-white portrait of Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine, London. He was previously the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show, World Soup (The Kitchen Show), in 1991, he has curated more than 350 exhibitions. Photo: Tyler Mitchell

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Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire:Luca Guadagnino

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