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.

The upcoming Toiletpaper wall calendar 2017 features photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their magazine Toiletpaper, an image-only publication devoted to the combination of the height of attractiveness with that …

SLEEK dedicates issue 52 to The New Native, a term that refers to people who look at home not as a geographic location, but rather as set of friends and relationships, as our EIC Jeni Fulton argues. With a hectic schedule of fashion weeks and travel, our cover star Virgil Abloh from the much-buzzed label Off-White encompasses this concept perfectly. Conversely, “Berlin Calling” focuses on six fashion designers who have chosen to call the German capital home for different reasons. Elsewhere in the magazine, stylist Tess Yopp revisits her childhood home of Moscow in the fashion editorial “On the Margins”; and Michelangelo Pistoletto discusses his career marked by 60 years of artistic rebellion.

Nummer 10 lebt! We will never stop collecting our favorite sticker artists all together in one magazine … like this one. Weil diese Nummer ein bisschen eine Jubiläumsausgabe ist, haben wir wieder Leute gefragt, an die sich Klebstoff-Maniacs auf jeden Fall erinnern werden, wieder ihren neuesten Stuff beizutragen und ausserdem ganz neue Gesichter. Mit Beiträgen von: Raquel Meyers, Sweden; Baptiste Virot, France; Nuria Figueiredo, Spain; Sebastian Schwamm, Germany; Ana Benaroya, USA; Robokid, Germany; Nick Alston, Japan; Berto Fojo, Spain; HOR, Germany; Lukas Weidinger, Austria; Boyane, South Korea and many more… Wenn ihr also noch Geschenke für euch oder eure Liebste sucht, greift zu!

Oysters in a 1930s gas station, fashion in a concrete carpark, art on the waterfront, Cuban juices, Haitian voodoo, a Nicaraguan gastro park… Get lost in the city of deco sunsets

Clare Rojas is an internationally shown artist, currently based in San Francisco and is considered to be part of the Mission School. She is “known for creating powerful folk-art-inspired tableaus that tackle traditional gender roles.” She works in a variety of media, including painting, installations, video, street art, and children’s books. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and previously attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Referencing West Coast modernism, Quaker art, Native American textiles, Byzantine mosaics, and Outsider art, Rojas tells stories through painting, installations, and video. Often her narratives concern relationships between the sexes and among humans and animals, in their struggle to find harmony and balance. Many works quietly celebrate the traditional strengths of women, depicting them like Russian nesting dolls in conventional roles without critical undertones or hints of sexual exploitation. Quilt-like patterns in vivid colors accentuate the folk art-inspired scenes present in some works, while simple geometric forms and stark interiors evoke Bauhaus design in others. Recently, Rojas has focused her attention on the abstract shapes formed by architecture and shadow that dominate interior spaces, producing colorful, precise, abstract compositions on stretched linen.

20 Pages, 14 x 20 cm, b/w Photocopy, Edition of 100, 2016

Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First working as a draftsman in an architectural firm, he started a career as an illustrator at the age of 30. His work has been published in major american public …

Barry McGee’s boldly graphic, colorful work incorporates a multitude of influences (including, for example, graffiti, American folk art, and Op Art), but is most immediately evocative of the urban street culture from which he hails. Engaging the ways i …

The photographer Jens Klein was invited by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst to produce an image book. He decided to sift through the application documents of over eight thousand scholarship holders from the 1950s on who had submitted analogue passport photographs to accompany their applications. Covering a period from 1950 to 2012, Klein selected 176 photographs of applicants who had received support from the foundation: a kind of transverse look across time and a visual chronicle reflecting Germany’s history and the evolution of photography. The photographs show how the medium has changed over the years: from black and white to colour, from an analogue to a digital medium, from elaborate studio shots to quick photo-booth pictures. In 2012, the Studienwerk introduced an online application process, thus ending the era of analogue images.

December 2016, English 12.5 x 20 cm, b/w and color ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-048-5

Edited by Luca Lo Pinto Texts by Andrew Ayers, Dafne Boggeri, Luca Lo Pinto, Stephen Piccolo, Lodovico Pignatti Morano, Barbara Radice

berlin, 2016