Toiletpaper

Toiletpaper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, ‘Toiletpaper’ has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.

Our three cover players, who each open a door to a different kind of playfulness, feature a human in deepdream, an avatar in hack mode, and a watermelon monster dressed up for an Unbirthday Party. SOFA’s funniest and deepest dispatch so far, our 4th issue captures the essential zeitgeist that everyone is longing for.

In a moment in time when adulting has never felt more urgent, and also frightening, IT’S PLAYTIME! puts culture in a headlock, wrestles playfully with childlikeness, games, new ideas, political strategies, brattiness, social media, slime, nostalgia, dark fantasies and paths to joy, in order to offer up fun as a soothsayer.

Here we are at a turning point—when the world is melting and teenagers are death staring world leaders, and demanding policy change. While LOLing (because we have to, it gives hope) and orbiting the newest frontiers of TikTok revenge, word games, ass augmentation and psychological analysis while microdosing, IT’S PLAYTIME! uncovers life below the surface of social media bravado. We float through fantasy rooms, go on dates with a clown, explore identity and mental health in alternate virtual worlds, and give voice to the thoughts and feelings of loud, restless, thoughtful youth culture in its crisis of consciousness.

120 p, ills colour, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Danish/English

Luncheon Issue 9 - Spring/Summer 2020

Cover 1 - Kate Lindsey in Orlando with costumes by Rei Kawakubo, photographed by Paolo Roversi, 2019

Cover 2 - Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Passion Like No Other, 2012 

Cover 3 - Vita Sackville-West photographed by Snowdon, 1961

Luncheon is serving a cultural feast for issue 9; art by, stories on and conversations over lunch with Robert Wyatt, Alfie Benge, Lulu Kennedy, Alexis Taylor, Joyce Ng, Gareth Casey, Brian Molloy, Paolo Roversi, Sadie Coles, Ibrahim Kamara, Naum Gabo, Jeremy Lee, Robbie Spencer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Martin Clark, Annie Collinge, Peter Rose Pulham, Kareem Reid, William N. Copley, Germano Celant, Freya E. Morris, Ben Toms, Rose Carrarini, Issy Wood, Robbie Spencer, Lars Brønseth, Madoka Rindal, Kuba Ryniewicz, Steven Campbell, Nam June Paik, Carol Campbell, Wiltons, Beca Lipscombe, Sarah McCrory, Jacob Lillis, Mairi McKenzie, Sophie von Hellermann, Philippe Garner, Jack Davison, Sook-Kyung Lee, Ronan Mckenzie, Rudy Simba Betty, Charlie Porter, Silka Rittson-Thomas, Valentina Ravaglia, Julie Greve, Reginald Moore, Alice Neale, Martine Rose, Isabelle Sayer, Fergus Henderson, John Booth, Margot Henderson, Estelle Hanania, Rollo Jackson, Mattias Karlsson, Marie Chaix, Lucy Kumara Moore, Ola Rindal and Jackson Boxer.

Twin Magazine is a biannual Art, Fashion and Feminism Book

Twin Issue XXII 

“As soon as you can crawl, you are put on a mat to train” quotes Kauan Gracie, recalling her earliest memory to stylist Beatriz Maués. The Gracies’ first female run Jiu-Jitsu academy celebrates the art of self defence through dance and sisterhood – shot by Liberto Filló and styled by Beatriz Maués.

 The Gracies set the scene for issue 22, where focus, determination and individual spirit are recurring themes throughout our features. Supermodel Carolyn Murphy covers Twin’s latest issue in an existential polar journey, shot by Hans Neumann. Paolo Such takes a walk with metal rapper Dana Dentata in LA and Stefanie Mosshammer covers the world’s fashion waste with an anthropomorphic clothing series. Molly Matalon explores sex and intimacy and Clare Shilland dreams of space and speed. 

Elsewhere we catch up with the prodigal theatre director Ola Ince who’s fresh from a run at The Donmar and about to tackle Shakespeare’s finest at The Globe; rising star Sophie Leseberg Smith talks the music of poetry and Rochelle White and Hamed Maiye talk the power of food through their creative platform, Eating At the Same Table. We profile rising Scandinavian artist Ragna Bley and get into the detailed perfection of Ron Nagle’s art. Liv Siddall welcomes the lunar return of The Big Moon and Kate Neave presents the daring feminist art of Harmony Hammond. And the radical vision of Tara Joshi, Otegha Uwagba, Valeria Napoleone and Daisy Walker are celebrated in ‘She Said Boom’. 

DIVERSITY NOW ISSUE,

SPRING/SUMMER 2020

'ToiletMartin PaperParr' is a high-impact visual volume revealing the most iconic images from the prolific archives of internationally celebrated artist Martin Parr and the duo who created 'Toiletpaper', Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Martin Parr’s ironic, full colour images combine perfectly with the irreverent and poignant wit created by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. The 120 vibrant back-to-back images included in this compelling volume are sensually and visually appealing, as well as being reflective of reality. This book of the books shakes up the mind and leads the eye in every direction.

language: english
pages: 192
illustrations: 120
binding: hardbound
release: March 2020

Minchō #19 echoes this recent fascination with cooking in an issue about food, creativity and collaboration whose aluminium container on the front-cover invites you to open it and sample a selection of works and articles that will help you to take a cultural approach to this succulent theme.

 
We have selected a front-cover image that is unusual for our magazine: the photograph of the creative invitation to an edible exhibition that the London artist and activist, Bobby Baker, organised in her house of Acme Studios in 1976, which is the perfect metaphor for the creation of something exciting out of the ordinary. And this is what food-themed art and cooking is all about.
 

Illustration: Louise Lockhart (interview) // Food through the Eye of an Illustrator (Furze Chan, Lucile Prache & Vicki Turner) // Derek Yaniger
In Motion: Céline Devaux (Le repas dominical)
Comic: Roberta Vázquez
Art + Design: Louise Fili // Manuel Estrada
The New Contemporary: Bobby Baker (cover artist)
Have a Nice Book:  Felix Bork (Und Was Isst Du Dann?)

Limit Yourself
And Unleash Your Creativity

Ralph Burkhardt

Telling yourself you have all the time, all the resources and all the money in the world just kills creativity and self-discipline. Why not try to limit yourself and unleash your creativity! Designer and advertiser Ralph Burkhardt has put together this inspirational pocket book, with a proven method that can help you tap into your creative and business potential and, above all, get results. Replete with quotes, checklists, cool illustrations and encouraging words, this little book packs a punch, revealing the simplest and most effective way to tap into your creative genius and set goals. A great tool to pass around during brainstorming meetings, or to keep handy on your desk at work.

Limit Yourself and Unleash Your Creativity contents:

What, why, who?

ABOUT CREATIVITY

What is creativity?

Everyone can be creative!

The true creative myth

The creative process

Reflect on your creativity

Think inside the box

ABOUT LIMITATIONS

Limitation’ might sound like a bad word

Who needs limitations?

What kind of limitations are there?

What limitations can do for you

What you need to bring

Who’s afraid of the blank page?

The creative trajectory

Why total freedom doesn’t liberate

Creative boundaries

Ready, mindset, go!

01 LIMITATIONS OF TIME

Learn to love deadlines

Make better use of your time

The five-minute time limit

One painting / poster / logo / lettering a day

02 LIMITATIONS OF RESOURCES

How to deal with a limited budget

Improvisation = innovation

Exploration through limitation

03 LIMITATIONS OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Refine your colour palette

Limit your typefaces

Why Frank Gehry loves limitations

Music at the limits

04 LIMITATIONS OF A BRIEF

‘ Do whatever you like!’

Discovering the client’s needs

Just don’t do it

What to learn from Dr. Seuss

05 LIMITATIONS OF MEDIUM

What is minimalism?

How to simplify and intensify

Maximum meaning, minimum means!

Embracing technical limitations

Use your digits!

06 LIMITATIONS OF SKILLS

Maintain momentum

Team up with others

Try random limitations

Harness someone else’s creativity

07 LIMITATIONS OF SPACE

Size does matter!

Decide what’s important

Do it ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

The ultimate limitation scale

FINAL THOUGHTS

Take the first step!

What to do with immutable limitations

A generation of demands

Limited to only one world

Credits / Bibliography / Thanks

Paperback
128 pages
40 illustrations
Size: 178 x 120 mm
Published: 04/11/2019

Beni Bischof

Texte 3

Mit Texte 3 erscheint eine weitere Publikation von Beni Bischof ohne Abbildungen und nur mit Textzeilen bestückt, im handelsüblichen Taschenbuchformat. Es ist wiederum Beni Bischofs persönliches Abbild seiner Sammlung von reisserischen Headlines und Slogans, absurden Kommentaren und sonderbaren Bemerkungen. Sein Textarchiv dient als Impulsgeber für Bildfindung und Werktitel und ist unmittelbare Inspirationsquelle für seine Werke.

Beni Bischof

Texte 2

Wild, unbändig und humorvoll – Beni Bischofs Inszenierungen folgen seinem unbändigen Schaffensdrang und verbinden gekonnt alle Medien: Von wandfüllenden Malereien über groteske Collagen zu filigranen Zeichnungen, von surrealen Objekten zu materialverschlingenden Skulpturen. In seinem pointierten künstlerischen Schaffen schlägt sich die Banalität des Alltags thematisch genauso nieder wie politische Diskussionen. Virtuos führt Beni Bischof den Betrachter aufs Glatteis und entlarvt die Mechanismen und Illusionen der uns umgebenden Medien-und Glamourwelt.
Psychobuch (2014), seine erste Publikation in der Edition Patrick Frey, war zugleich Gesamtschau dieses dichten Schaffens sowie eigenständiges Künstlerbuch. Texte 1 (2015) erschien anlässlich der Verleihung des Manor-Kunstpreises 2015 und der damit verbundenen Einzelausstellung im Kunstmuseum St.Gallen.  Mit Texte 2 erscheint nun der zweite Band im Taschenbuchformat und vereint einmal mehr Beni Bischofs überbordende Sammlung von Headlines, Slogans, Witzen, Junk-Mails, Lyrics, filmischen Dialogszenen, Lebensweisheiten und vielem mehr – eine momentane Auswahl und zugleich subjektive Quintessenz seines über Jahre angehäuften Textarchivs. (Nadia Veronese)

Beni Bischof

Texte 1

Beni Bischof arbeitet unbändig und intuitiv. Neben Zeichnungen, Collagen, Malerei, Skulpturen und Installationen zeugen seine seit 2005 im Eigenverlag herausgegebenen laserkopierten Künstlermagazine von seinem eruptiven Schaffensdrang. Spontane Gedanken zu gesellschaftlichen und politischen Themen übersetzt er in skurrile und witzige Wort- und Zeichenbotschaften, die von entwaffnender Direktheit sind. Die Banalität des alltäglichen Lebens wird ebenso wenig verschont wie Dramen aus der politischen Agenda. Beni Bischof entglamourisiert den edlen Schein der vermeintlichen Exklusivität und zeichnet ein abgründiges Bild der Gesellschaft. Sein Bild- und Textmaterial eignet er sich aus der Trivialliteratur, Modezeitschriften, der Werbung oder aus der virtuellen Welt an. Psychobuch (2014), seine erste Publikation in der Edition Patrick Frey, ist zugleich Gesamtschau dieses dichten Schaffens sowie eigenständiges Künstlerbuch. Mit Texteerscheint nun ein auf den ersten Blick gegensätzlich wirkendes Werk: reiner Text in Taschenbuchformat. Es ist Beni Bischofs persönliches Abbild seiner Sammlung von Mails, Headlines, Slogans und Witzen. Texte erscheint anlässlich der Einzelausstellung des Künstlers im Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (13. Februar bis 21. Juni 2015). 

Beni Bischof wird mit dem Manor-Kunstpreis St. Gallen 2015 ausgezeichnet.

Broschiert, 320 Seiten,

This issue goes deep inside the idea of, well, inside. 

From the Finnish concept of inner fortitude to how cannabis affects the most intimate parts of our bodies to instructions on how to make magazine within a magazine, Volume Four explores all the different ways one can be inside—or outside, for that matter.

Cover art by Leeor Wild. Scroll down for more from inside this issue—no pun intended.

The fourth volume in Jack Pierson’s celebrated Tomorrow’s Man artist book series mixes imagery from all spectrums of the visual landscape into a single mediation on the world around us. Combining archival material together with contributions by emerging and established artists, Tomorrow’s Man 4 continues on where the earlier volumes left off. Mixed together in its signature all over design format this installment showcases historical pen and ink sketches by John Tottenham, hummingbird portraits by Brian Calvin, glazed ceramic constructions by Liz Larner, and deadpan street shots by Trevor Hernandez (better known to many by his Instagram handle Gang Culture) together with contributions by Cali Dewitt, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Lily Stockman, Richard Tinkler, and Evan Whale.

The title, Tomorrow’s Man, comes from an infamous bodybuilding magazine from the 1950s and ‘60s. Reappropriating the publication’s title as well as its retro bodybuilding aesthetic, Pierson takes viewers on a dizzying visual journey encompassing the full spectrum of cultural references. Includes a four large fold-out posters

Published by Bywater Bros. Editions, 2017
104 pages, softcover
10 x 7.25 inches / 25.4 x 18.4 cm

This book is the third volume in Jack Pierson’s ground-breaking Tomorrow’s Man series, in which the artist has assembled an art-fueled creative collaboration that harkens back to the thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book published between 1894-1897. Whereas the first two Tomorrow’s Man volumes implied an increasing density of layered imagery and over twenty-five artists, Tomorrow’s Man 3 amplifies the work of just four artists. Richard Tinkler’s delicate geometric abstractions are highlighted once again, working in concert with Pierson’s recent series of figure studies; activist text works by Peter Fend that cry out for environmental justice; and a short story by Veralyn Behenna entitled ‘The Flavor of Your Wish’ in which an expatriate woman contemplates masculine beauty in a Grecian taverna. This is the first time Tomorrow’s Man has included previously unpublished work by Pierson.

Woven into a poetic framework of connections, the resulting narrative takes the Tomorrow’s Man series into new terrain that combines the vernacular of classic photography with the urgent, geo-political narratives of Fend’s texts, and the psychedelic reverberations of Tinkler’s drawings. The result is a publication that is itself a collaborative work of art which, with Pierson’s creative hand, manages to highlight each contributor, while simultaneously melding everything into a sophisticated mediation on culture and nature.

Published by Bywater Bros. Editions, 2015
120 pages, softcover
10 x 7.25 inches / 25.4 x 18.4 cm

Getaway is a photobook that plays out in a parallel universe a little closer to the sun. The Canary Islands – almost exclusively a holiday destination for more than 3 million western tourists a year – is the backdrop of this performance. Five Danish photographers have been on a photographic expedition to this lost and blazing world and the book is a collection of images they brought back with them.

Getaway is about a place where we enjoy, dream, escape, recover and confront the absence of everyday life. That temporary reality we call vacation.

Bio:
Ulrik Jantzen, Kasper Witte Larsen, Emil Jakobsen, Simon Caspersen and Kasper Kristoffersen work together in the photo collective Büro Jantzen. The collective was founded by Ulrik Jantzen, who graduated from the School of Journalism in Denmark, and who, over the past 15 years, has made his mark on the photographic scene in Denmark. Büro Jantzen has exhibited at multible galleries and museums in Denmark and abroad, won several  photographic awards and published a number of photobooks.

• Softcover
• ISBN 978-87-970520-4-4
• 16.5 x 22.5 cm
• 80 color photographs
• 144 pages
• Preface in Danish
• Published September 2019

Limited edition of 500

Printed in Denmark by Narayana Press

Issue 3 – Creation

Creation. A concept too big to define. It’s an active process—a state of feeling and an energy that is always unfolding, blossoming and exploding into existence. Each woman we feature in this issue is fueled by a magnetic desire to express themselves fully and to use this influence to empower others. Through intimate conversations, they speak honestly about the courage needed to tap into and express their inner worlds.

Can art save us? As we find ourselves facing the ever-harsher realities of the climate crisis, this age-old question becomes relevant once again. In this issue, we interrogate the many ways in which animals and the natural world are presented visually—often with either advocate or escapist tendencies—and speak with artists who are suggesting new ways of reconnecting with and caring for the environment.

We also meet the artists who are relating to plants in an intimate and sensual manner. Through their lush, highly tactile work, they explore our current contact with the many different lives we share this planet with, while taking inspiration from the erotic power dynamics of BSDM.

In this issue’s Encounters, we speak to fashion photographer Tim Walker, discuss the pitfalls of utopia with pioneering sculptor Lee Bul and talk clay and consent with performance artist Florence Peake.

Two Paper Galleries continue our exploration of the wild world. We investigate the notions of innocence and the rural in Caroline Tompkins’s heated photography. Cover artist Lydia Blakeley’s paintings are also presented; these bring together pets, sporting animals and Internet memes with both unsettling and amusing results.

In the back section of the magazine, Journal features our regular columnists: Charlotte Jansen questions the environmental argument for having fewer children, while Federico Florian examines the unnatural social and transactional space of the Uber car. Plus, Mary McCartney takes us inside Peter Blake’s studio—and cooks him lunch—and Gavin Turk suggests ten ways of improving our relationship with Planet Earth.All this and more, as we round off a particularly explosive decade.