Sorbet - Winter 2020/21, Issue 30

Sorbet’s Winter 2020/21 issue is a few parts dirty, a few parts 30, and most parts, a party to mark our milestone 30th issue, and celebrate the end of 2020. We talk to celebrity event planners about how to downscale in size but upscale in style; we bring you stories from the most monumental parties in history; we celebrate men in dresses; and provide a menu fit for a 30th bash, designed by our dear friend Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno. We shot a house party in Jeddah with Gucci and Saudi songstress Tamtam, a beach party in the Emirates, a party in the jungle with Chanel, and a hundred balloons with Bottega Veneta. And would you even believe it, our cover star Monica Bellucci first stepped off runways and onto the silver screen 30 years ago. For this celebratory issue, master photographer Ellen Von Unwerth captures the Italian actress as Madonna in her most iconic video, ‘Material Girl,’ surrounded by sparkling rocks and strapping lads. Mamma mia!

Frankie – issue 98

need some good news? how about this: issue 98 is officially on sale! it’s winging its way around australia (and beyond), with lots of wonderful stuff tucked away inside. some examples: a lady who’s started a doomsday collection of bread tags. a book club devoted to first nations stories. some old-fashioned insults that are due for a comeback (you slugabed!). a cosy home built inside a former yellow school bus. there are also puzzles to keep your mind chugging along, facts about some of our favourite native birds, and a few nifty – and natural – ways to make your house smell nice. we talk boobs in all their droopy, sensitive, meal-making glory, meet a wellington drag king with an important message, and consider the life lessons that come from learning to ride a motorbike. oh, and just a little thing: you’ll finally meet the winners of the 2020 good stuff awards! they’re a mighty fine bunch, if we do say so ourselves, and we can’t wait for you to get to know them.

Flash Art # 333 Winter 2020-21

DAMNº 77 – A Conversation on Happiness

The celebrations that erupted across the world as Joe Biden’s presidential win became apparent rang like a victory for basic human decency. There was a real rapture – despite the ongoing spread of a devastating pandemic – and it was contagious. Might this decency and a return to so-called “norms” usher in a new era of stability for 2021? And does stability lie at the core of happiness anyway?

We also join a Dutch curator on his trip across the American election trail where he visited artists to hear how the American political landscape influences their work. The conclusion is a more humble understanding of what really makes us happy, a much-needed skepticism of the role technology plays, and a nuanced awareness of how design shapes it all.

#37 uneven ground

The opportunities to encounter the Other – someone other than myself – are transforming dynamically, thanks in part to technological developments and the possibilities for sharing both images and other information. However, we often isolate ourselves in smooth bubbles of sameness and the others disappear. Photography mediates encounters, but it is also a medium that alienates. Uneven terrain is a place where we meet; where our relationships take place, whether they are personal or social and political.

The aim of this issue is to seek out possibilities for encounters and the sharing of emotions through the media of photography and video, which either balance out the unevenness of the terrain or allow both parties to profit from it. As the terrain is uneven, our aim is to give space to works that facilitate encounters with the Other and to revive the function that in this sense can be attributed to the documentary media of photography and film.

MATTO is a contemporary culture magazine, featuring conversations and studio visits.

N.4

MARTIN MARGIELA - MICHELE LAMY AND RICK OWENS FURNITURE - NEIL BELOUFA - STEPHANIE D’HEYGERE - RACHEL ROSE - CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI - REBECCA LAMARCHE-VADEL - KAMONLAK SUNKCHAI - LOUIS-GERARD CASTOR - WALTER DE MARIA - ARAKI NOBUYOSHI - BEATRICE BONINO - DIANE PERNET - FEMKE DE VRIES - EDUARDO CASSINA AND MUCH MORE

Cover by MARTIN MARGIELA

The latest edition of Jack Pierson's photobook-cum-artist's book featuring work from some of Pierson's favorite contemporary artists

The fifth volume in Jack Pierson’s celebrated Tomorrow’s Man artist’s book series mixes imagery from all spectrums of the visual landscape into a single meditation on the world around us.

Combining archival material together with contributions by emerging and established artists, Tomorrow's Man 5continues on where the earlier volumes left off. In this edition, the diverse body of art includes Dietmar Busse's enigmatic, almost occult drawings on photography, David Dupuis' delicate, colorful abstractions and Richard Tinkler's bright geometric abstractions, as well as work by Janet Stein, David Carrino, Jeff Davis, Clement Schneider, Paul Stuttman and Jordan Wolfson (now infamous for his shocking work at the 2017 Whitney Biennial Real Violence) is included alongside Pierson's own images.

PUBLISHER
BYWATER BROS. EDITIONS

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 128 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/5/2020

Time to travel and time to dream, time to die and time to stay still. If there is one thing we gained during the coronavirus lockdown, it was that we redefined our relation with time. When everything stood still, the time at our disposal expanded, acquired meaning and shed light on a reality other than the usual one. It reminded us of Proust‘s Time Lost and Regained. It reminded us of  “I like America and America likes me” by the famous German artist Joseph Beuys, who spent three days in 1974 locked in a room together with a wild coyote.

With these stories in mind, and also with the words of Marina Tsvetaeva —“The best service a poet can render to his age is let it speak, express itself through him”— we thought of making an issue where the times we are going through would be expressed through Art.

So we approached artists from all over the world and asked them to create original work about time for NOMAS or provide some existing project relating to time. In this we were helped by four eminent curators who selected their preferred artists and wrote a text each about time and Art, time and Proust‘s madeleine, time and life; works and texts that ultimately speak of us and our time.

This journey across contemporary art was expanded thanks to the participation of the DESTE Foundation of collector Dakis Joannou and the Artistic Director of the New Museum in New York and Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan, Massimiliano Gioni; the French art historian and curator Frederic Bonnet; the managing director of Eleusis Cultural City of Europe 2021, Maria Panayides; and the well-known art historian Panos Giannikopoulos.

We are proud of the fact that in this issue you can see original works or works-in-progress triggered by NOMAS, by such great artists as Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Nari Ward, Andra Ursuta, Kaari Upson, Paweł Althamer, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Sara Lorussoand several more.

Also, the artist Socratis Socratus talks through his work about time and war.

An original short story commissioned to the distinguished Cuban writer Reinaldo Montero, member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua and Spain‘s Royal Academy, is published here for the first time.

Dany Laferrière, the Haitian writer of the Académie Française, starts from his astounding poetic novel L‘enigme du retour and tells us about time, memory, writing and death.

The famous photographer Duane Michals talks about time in photography, although essentially he continues with unabated enthusiasm, at the age of 88, to deliver life lessons for those willing to listen.

The great Teodor Currentzis, founder and Music Director of musicAeterna, discusses the way in which music changes our relation with time. Finally, three special journals take us into different geographic locations as we follow three different stories across time, the oldest of which was written in the 19th century by James Weddell, at the time a Master in the British Royal Navy.

NOMAS #13 is a special issue, not only because we thought of 13 as the ideal number for starting our new collaboration with Bureau Borsche, the studio of the outstanding German designer Mirko Borsche, but also because it leaves a collectable mark on time. It is a Noah‘s Ark of the precious things highlighted by the lockdown forced upon us by the coronavirus. Browsing through its pages, one may feel like embarking on a journey via contemporary art.

Lina Stefanou

GRUPPE ISSUE #2

GRUPPE ISSUE #1 with Darja Bajagi´c / Denniz Brzek / Lou Cantor / The Church of Euthanasia / Oliver Corino / Mac Folkes / Georgia Gardner Gray / Dorota Gaweda / Tim Heyduck / Joseph Kadow / Karl Felix Keßler / Julian-Jakob Kneer / Chris Korda / Egle Kulbokaité / A.C. Kupper / John Langdon / Adam Lehrer / Billy Lobos / Mathieu Malouf / Dan Mitchell / Jacob Muselman / Kristina Nagel / Pamela C. Nogales C. / Laurids Oder / Kayode Ojo / Daniela Pérez Reverón / Dushan Petrovich / Arthur Poujous / Jon Rafman / Daniel Roché / Bunny Rogers / Nele Ruckelshausen / Thyago Sainte / Fritz Schiffers / Stefan Schwartzman / Filip Setmanuk / Philipp Simon / Third World Quality / Ellie de Verdier / Christopher Viaggio / Natacha Voranger / Jan Vorisek / Hamish Wirgman

Softcover Magazine 

272 Pages
23 cm x 30 cm

Gruppe is a collaborative online platform for young artists, designers, and writers. The team of Gruppe is available for creative services of all kind, including creative and art direction, visual and graphic design, video and editorial production, event conception and management, advertising strategy, copywriting and consultance.

Off The Rails - Too Fast For Love Issue 17 

Inside The Magazine

We spent the last 4 issues gearing up for Issue 17. This whole season was about exploring how our followers accepted all the genres of art we wanted to showcase. It's the most perfect collection of everything we love. Still with the same ethos of presenting works of the well known or the unknown, in the same light. With light at the end of the 2020 tunnel almost in sight, people have been reevaluating their lives and specifically the concept of time and time they've lost. 'Too Fast For Love' is our title for this collection. We haven't all been able to explore the things we love. Work, gigs, relationships, creating, hanging out with friends, going away on trips. Despite mostly being on lock down, time has still managed to move too fast. When we emerge on the other side, we will look at everything, including the mundane, in a very different way.

Our cover story is a thing of beauty. A collection of photographs of Jess Johnshot by our own, Matthew Comer, we've been sat on for a long time. We were waiting for the perfect artist to collaborate with. In comes Courtney Mc in slow mo through fire and brimstone. Her only instruction was, do whatever you want. Her unique style is impossible to ignore. With the biggest feature in the magazine as well as a double foldout cover, she's clearly the rock star of this show!

We have some new team members join our group of misfits. LA based Sarah Pardini, who you may remember shot our last cover story, has come on board and instantly smashes three of the best stories in this mag. Manchester based creative duo Eleanore Chetcuti and Sian Nuttall present their first story with us and hit a home run with local lass and musician, Charlotte OC.

We interview some of the most influential people on the block right now. Talk Art is the world's leading art podcast. Presented by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, we join forces with them to talk art with Yinka Ilori in London. We talk with Sara Frazetta and how she's keeping the dark arts of her Grandfather Frank Frazetta, well and truly alive. Rahm Carrington tells us about his project documenting the infamous, lawless town of Slab City.

We jump feet first into our homie Nadz Banaag's take on youth culture and pushed candid photography, the grunge edge of Mara Weinstein, the bold colours and provocative nature of Nicoline Aagesen aka @mycameramyrules, and the cinematographic mind blowing stills of Theo Gosslin.

Our gallery, Maze present some killer artists. Incredible dot work from Dimitri Likissas, Tony Roos has some of the boldest brightest pages in the magazine with his take on the female form, and Jonathon Ouisse shows us some hyperreal surrealism paintings inspired by Italian Renaissance.

If all that wasn't enough, there's another 30+ stories including a self shot series by the skaters and people that hang at Hackney Bumps. Eartheaterhits the beaches of New York in the only way we'd expect. Pip brings us insane imagery that could have been torn straight from art work of The Streets, Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) tells us how saving Manchester's key live music venues & launching a nostalgic vibe TV show in 'Gorilla TV' will counter the covid attack on the hospitality industry, and friend / babe Antonina Kosior aka Nrata shows us how she's planning on being the new Emrata.

FUKT #19 – The Storylines Issue

FUKT Magazine, one of the world’s leading, engaging and inspiring drawing magazine returns for its 19th edition. This new release, created during the COVID-19 pandemic looks at the art of narration in drawing.

Inside, you can expect to see a myriad of illuminating stories unfold both through drawings and interviews. Contributions from established artists Chris Ware, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Brian Rea as well as emerging artists Maria Paz and Xiyu Tomorrow among others make up this issue. 

Founded in 1999 by artist Björn Hegardt, FUKT, which translates to “moist” or “damp” in Norwegian and Swedish, is a Berlin-based annual magazine for contemporary drawing. Each issue comes with a unique cover by Ariane Spanier who also co-edits and designs the magazine. From issue 16 onwards, the FUKT team began organising each edition thematically: from The Sex Issue on Dirty Drawings to The Words Issue and Fukt The System Issue. 

Speaking of the current issue, Hegardt says: “In times of global threats — from the pandemic to climate change, senseless politics, and periods confined to our homes — we may long for stories more than ever. Stories that let us see the world through the eyes of others and help us to make sense of it all, allowing us to remember and to imagine, to understand the unfamiliar, the strange and unknown.”

The storyline has been interrogated in a number of ways throughout the edition, taking the reader on a journey from the mythical, to the sequential and the storyboard. For Hegardt, the thread that unites all of the featured artists is that “above all, they are people who create drawings with beautiful, surprising, funny or sad stories. Like always in our magazine, everything revolves around our beloved practice of drawing.”

FUKT has won multiple awards including D&AD Graphite Pencil 2020, D&AD Wood Pencil 2019 and was awarded cover of the year at Stack Awards in 2019. It has previously been featured on It’s Nice That, magCulture and Stack Magazines. 

Editor: Björn Hegardt
Junior assistant: Alice Finney
Design: Ariane Spanier

ISBN 978-3-9820098-2-7
23 x 17 cm
232 pages, softcover (fold out)

Artists:
Adéla Marie Jirku, Bjørn Bjarre, Brian Rea, Byun Young Geun, Chris Ware, Colin Matthes, Danielle Morgan, Davor Gromilović, Emma Talbot, Gareth Fuller, Jana Gunstheimer, Johannes Høie, Maria Medem, Maria Paz, Marie-Louise Ekman, Miodrag Manojlović, Océane Moussé, Ori Toor, Sakubei Yamamoto, Shuvinai Ashoona, Toyin Ojih Odutola, WOSHIBAI, Yuichi Yokoyama, Xiyu Tomorrow

OD.M Issue 09

Odalïsque Magazine is a skilfully curated fashion, culture, and art magazine. Artistic and eccentric imagery engages the viewer with a provocative social critique, valuing culture, while remaining in tone with commerce. Intriguing narratives reveal expressive interplay between art, luxury and fashion, where the juxtaposition of creativity and reasoning merges into a cultural symbiosis.

Covers: Sandra Myhrberg’s photographic narrative

Inside: Designer duo Rave Review's approach to fashion that is seemingly inspired by Goethe’s viewpoint.

Blenda, first Swedish singer ever signed to Pharell Williams and Rob Walker’s Star Trak/ Def Jam Recordings label talks about how her music plays a role in many things, that she as an artist can take a stand and help spread new ways of thinking, along with a vibe. The artist Ayan Farah speaks about poignant reminders of the passing of time.

Pari Damani, Odalisque Magazines Beauty Editor teams up with photographer Andreas Johansson and opens up our minds with a colorful beauty. Photographer Ninja Hanna illustrates a modern mermaid by the sea. Further, we meet artistic photographer Hinke Tovle's alien figure in a barewild landscape.In Sandra Myhberg’s portrait series The Mystery of Inequity we are told different ways how to define beauty.

Photographers: Andreas Johansson, Sandra Myhrberg, Hinke Tovle, Ninja Hanna, Laura Allard-Fleischl, Fredrik Wannerstedt, Joanna Hüttner Lemoine, Fredric Altinell

Illustrations: Michaela Widergren

Bauhaus Imaginista

A School in the World

Marion von Osten, Grant Watson

From its inception in 1919, the Bauhaus was a truly international institution. Students and teachers travelled from Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Palestine, Russia, Switzerland and the United States to Weimar and later Dessau and Berlin to become part of the school, drawn to the Bauhaus because of its cosmopolitan, avant-garde perspective and hands-on curriculum. This outlook was reflected in the way the school received and interpreted diverse influences, ranging from Arts and Crafts to reform pedagogy, from Eastern spirituality to constructivism, machine production and the Neues Bauen (New Building) movement. Art and design at the Bauhaus also contained a transcultural element, gleaned through exposure to non-western cultures, books and museum collections and interaction with foreign students and visiting lecturers.

Free Time - Issue 02

Free Time is a new international biannual edition that shines a spotlight on people who express themselves during their free time.

In a time of achievement-oriented culture, where we have structured our culture around work, not play, Free Time focuses on the importance of leisure. An advocate for creativity, Free Time is an ode to self-expression, free creation, and intuition - time seen as a constant source of inspiration.

We encourage savoring the time we have outside of our modern world responsibilities to embark on creative and mindful pursuits that we do for ourselves or others. From creative hobbies and sports to actions to improve our world like protesting and education, or love and relationships, Free Time delves into the more enlightened moments in life.

CANVAS Issue 94

In the aftermath of the biggest man-made explosion in recent memory, Beirut Speaks brings you the voices of artists, architects, activists, designers and other leading professionals in the cultural sector as they seek to reassess and rebuild after the 4 August blast in the Lebanese capital. We sit down again with some of the key players we highlighted three years ago in The Rise and Rise of Beirut, take a walk through the areas most affected, focus on the diverse architecture that makes the city special, and engage with over 30 creatives, cultural institutions and art spaces to learn how they're coping, what might have changed forever, and whether they see light ahead at the end of the tunnel.

Banana – Issue 006

Cover Art + Story: SAITEMISS

• A Korean American Shaman’s Journey

• Chinese Wedding Traditions

• Into the Yunaverse

• Asian Comedy Takeover

• Bowen Yang

• Jenny Yang

• Fung Bros.

• Jessica Gao

• Ronny Chieng

• Japanese Breakfast

• Tiny Gentle Baesians

• LA Spawn

• SAITEMISS

• Vietnam Voyeur

Photos by James Bee

OOF #6

The incredible painting on the front of this issue is 'A Sweet Lob from 25 Yards' by London icon Caroline Coon. It's one of eight football-inspired paintings from her 'Arena' series, all of which are included in this issue. We've also got Dale Berning Sawa looking at the street tapestries of young French artist Delphine Dénéréaz, curator George Vasey getting all misty eyed about the ecstatic emotions in old football photos, Eddy Frankel diving deep into the relationship between Watford legend Luther Blissett and the QAnon conspiracy theory, and the amazing Swedish football writer Fredrik Ekelund letting it all out about Zlatan's great betrayal. OOF indeed.

Artforum

October/November 2020, Vol. 59, No. 2