Marco Falcioni (BOSS & Art Basel Awards)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a special partnership with BOSS. Special episode recorded during Miami Basel week, December 2025. #AD
Russell & Robert catch up with Marco Falcioni, Creative Director of HUGO BOSS. We discuss the Art Basel Awards which BOSS have been partnering with.
The BOSS AWARD for Outstanding Achievement was presented at Art Basel Miami Beach to Meriam Bennani for her work entitled “For My Best Family.”
The BOSS AWARD for Outstanding Achievement celebrates work that embodies the BOSS values of boldness, personal authenticity, ambition, and responsibility. It honors a singular work, produced within the last 18 months, that has catalyzed change at the intersection of art, technological innovation, social dialogue, and identity.
Moroccan-born and New York-based, Meriam Bennani uses a broad range of artistic mediums that include video, sound, animation, sculpture as well as large-scale installations, among others. She’s known for mixing humor, pop-cultural aesthetics and digital language in her storytelling to create immersive, playful yet critical pieces that resonate with the viewer.
The BOSS AWARD for Outstanding Achievement has a prize of US$100,000 and empowers the awardee to amplify voices beyond their own, allowing them to allocate a reward of US$50,000 to a community or cause of the artist’s choosing. The remaining US$50,000 will be invested in a project, commission, or cultural activation by the artist that will be co-developed with BOSS.
Introduced earlier this year in May, the Art Basel Awards recognized 36 Medalists across nine categories within the contemporary art world. These categories included iconic, established, and emerging artists, as well as cross-disciplinary creators, curators, institutions, patrons, media and storytellers, and allies shaping the future of cutting-edge artistry. Through a peer-driven process, the Medalists then selected 12 Gold Medalists from among their ranks, who were honored with the highest distinction at last night’s ceremony.
BOSS has supported art for 30 years and is known for timeless and sophisticated style, and commitment to culture, sport and sustainability, underpinned by technical innovations developed over its century-long history. Russell explores his inspirations and design approach, including runway collections, collaborations with David Beckham, Aston Martin, and reimagining classics with a modern twist.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world. I'm Russell Tovey. |
| 0:10.3 | And I'm Robert Diamant. And this is Talkart. Welcome to Talkart. How are you today, Robert? |
| 0:16.8 | Today, Russell, I am feeling self-determined. |
| 0:20.7 | Ooh, that's a nice feeling. And I'm feeling like my own boss., I am feeling self-determined. Oh, that's a nice feeling. |
| 0:21.9 | And I'm feeling like my own boss. |
| 0:24.0 | Oof. |
| 0:24.6 | Because I am a boss, aren't I? |
| 0:25.7 | Let's face it. |
| 0:26.5 | You are. |
| 0:27.3 | You're the boss of the boss. |
| 0:28.6 | Today, this episode is being recorded from Art Basel, Miami, with the boss of boss. |
| 0:36.2 | There's lots of bosses going on here. We have the creative director, |
| 0:41.1 | the icon that is already a friend of talk art coming back on the podcast to talk about the |
| 0:47.5 | development of all the amazing support that Hugo Boss has been doing for art. They've been supporting |
| 0:53.9 | art for 30 years. They have such an |
| 0:56.5 | amazing history. I've been like delving into all of these artists and it is literally mind-blowing. |
| 1:02.4 | There are so many artists they've supported. We're going to talk about it anyway in the episode, |
| 1:05.5 | but we're actually here to celebrate the Boss Award and the Art Basel Awards, which have just been announced and it happened |
| 1:13.9 | last night, and it's really exciting. And I know in May of this year, you two met and there was an |
| 1:20.6 | event in Basel, Switzerland, which was announcing all the medalists who gathered in Miami last night. |
| 1:26.8 | It's an incredible, incredible artist. |
| 1:28.7 | So we're going to explore that now. So we would like to welcome back to Talk Art, the one and |
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