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?)

Minchō #18 seeks to explore the contemporary sexual imagery as an expression of identity, taboos, freedom, fantasy and pleasures, from a diverse perspective that is not restricted to the male, white and heterosexual gaze.

This new issue is passionate, fun and rewarding as its theme, featuring Marion Fayolle’s illustrated books about relationships between men and women, Jeffrey Cheung’s fanzines brimming with racial diversity, a selection of shorts on desire all created by female filmmakers (confronted with an opinion article on the controversial animation work of Wong Ping), the comic-essays of the feminist activist Liv Strömquist, the empowered letterforms of Jade Schulz, homoerotic art by Leo Rydell Jost, and children books freed from toxic masculinity.

A suggestive selection with which you can curl up and tickle your intellect, as can be seen in the cover illustration by Santiago Sequeiros: a rosy mountain of bodies having sex, that reflects the coronal plane of the two halves of a brain occupied by the same thing back to us.

ILLUSTRATION: 
Jeffrey Cheung 
Santiago Sequeiros (interview) 
Marion Fayolle

IN MOTION: 
Joy in the Dark (Marta Pajek, Joung Yumi, Michaela Pavlátová, Sawako Kabuki and Lori Malépart-Traversy) 
Wong Ping

COMIC: 
Liv Strömquist

ART+DESIGN: 
Empowered Alphabets (Jade Schulz, Anthon Beeke and Malika Favre)

THE NEW CONTEMPORARY: 
Leo Rydell Jost

HAVE A NICE BOOK: 
Emotional ABCs (Goele Dewanckel and Keith Negley

Book Reviews 
To See & Be Seen

Sprache: Englisch