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#14 — the mother issue
The printed magazine is an art form which is often described as a dying medium; its continued existence has been a subject of media debate in the post-net age, and in art publishing (as in all of its genres) magazines have been forced to evolve.
Modern Matter aims to solve this problem the problem of why magazines still exist by attempting to use the magazine space as a forum for truly bespoke art content.
Rather than simply reproducing Q&A interviews and static shoots, Modern Matter aims to collaborate with its featured artists in real and varied ways: by publishing a visual essay curated by Luc Tuymans or Rita Ackermann, for example, or by encouraging the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to start a dialogue with his favourite tennis writer.
Modern Matter’s perspective its central thesis is treating the very presentation of the arts as an art-form in and of itself. From an experimental approach to design, to non-linear values in the field of editorial content, Modern Matter is a unisex publication which aims to examine exactly what can be achieved in the field of printed matter: the attributes of the medium which still mark it out as vital in a digital age.
In this issue:
Modern Matter is proud to present our 14th edition for S/S18, The Mother Issue: a celebration of the art of birthing, nurturing and shaping concepts that go on to influence a younger generation. Every artist is the mother — or the father — of their practice, their ideas, and their eventual successors.
As photographed by Juergen Teller, our cover star Michele Lamy is the perfect representative of this ethos: a creative, a true individual, and a woman with a totally original style and outlook.
Inside the magazine, work by Louise Bourgeois and Monster Chetwynd (including an exclusive collaboration with Monster and her son, Dragan) continues the issue’s theme.
Also featuring: Donald Judd, Robert Heinecken, Will Benedict, Pablo Picasso at Tate Modern & more.
Plus: Modern Matter gives birth to a special mini supplement, Child.
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