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“PERLE AI PORCI” :
Photo by Lukas Wassman
Illustration by Myself
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Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 – April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer andfilmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work.
Roland Topor, è stato troppo frettolosamente dimenticato e accantonato dall’immaginario collettivo, sia a causa di una sua difficile catalogabilità, che per una sconcertante violenza insita nelle sue opere. La sua immaginazione sadica e il suo tagliente umorismo nero hanno disvelato, senza mezzi termini, l’assurdità nascosta nel reale.
“Un individuo, per sopravvivere, deve dissimulare la sua virulenza. Deve svolgere un’attività utile a una comunità umana, a un gruppo sociale. Deve dare l’impressione di essere sincero. Deve apparire UOMO NORMALE. La sola rivolta individuale consiste nel sopravvivere.”
(Roland Topor)
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After an experience as author and director for theatre, Tv and cinema, Max Papeschi starts with digital-art. As figurative artist his approach with Art-World was an immediate success among the critics and the public. His work Politically-Incorrect shows a globalized and consumerist Society and reveals in a realistic ironical way all the horror of this life style. From the Nazi-Micky Mouse to the Ronald McDonald Butcher the cult icons loose their reassuring effect and change into a collective nightmare. He has exhibit his works in many galleries around the world.
Max Papeschi arriva alla digital-art dopo l’esperienza da autore e regista in ambito teatrale, televisivo e cinematografico. Come artista figurativo il suo approccio con l’Art-World è stato d’immediato successo sia di pubblico che di critica. Il suo lavoro Politically-Scorrect, mostra una società globalizzata e consumista rivelandone i suoi orrori in maniera ironicamente realistica. Dal Topolino Nazista al Ronald McDonald Macellaio le icone cult perdono il loro effetto tranquillizzante per trasformarsi in un incubo collettivo. Ha esposto i suoi lavori in molte gallerie in giro per il mondo.
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Home is Where the Head is.
Anna Parini was born in Milan in 1984, where she completed a three-year course in “Illustration and Multimedia Animation” at the European Institute of Design. In 2008 she moved to Barcelona and took a Master Course in Illustration at Escuela Massana. She now divides her time between Milan, Barcelona, and New York working as an illustrator.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, New York Observer, American Lawyer, La Vanguardia, Financial Post, Green Source Magazine, Random House Mondadori, Barcelones Magazine, Ling/ Vueling, Vice Spain, Vice New York and others.
Illustrations/ Anna Parini
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Jeremy Fish is an illustrator and artist currently living in San Francisco.
J.F.for ABSOLUT BLANK
BIOGRAPHY
Introduction By Aesop Rock:
I would like to think that somewhere between full-blown, howling death and a basket of newborn kittens exists a climate where the malice and the mirth can mingle. A couple of daisies on your grave, a little venom in your cocoa, some broken glass in your bouncy castle. This type of polar mixer can serve as an intriguing, endlessly entertaining, true-to-life foundation from which a smidgen of lore can grow. Exaggerate the extremes even a little, and the stories, characters, and places that emerge warp accordingly. It is the recognition and exploitation of this tension that immediately drew me to the work of upstate New York-born, San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Fish.
At first glance, Fish’s images seem to be rooted in an alternate world — a world where gnomes travel via saddled dachshund-back and birds of all nations hatch adorned with the heads and hairstyles of every human stereotype imaginable. The bold, precise outlines give his ideas an immediate impact, but it’s the aftertaste that really cuts deep. Everything comes with a story. I have never known Jeremy to create something without a reason for it to exist and an accompanying tale. His pictures are built from the simplest ingredients, ingredients with which the everyman can identify. Fish documents his every day, every trip, every friend, and every experience within his art to the point where one could line up his life’s work, decode the riddles, and have a clear idea of where he’s been, how he felt about it, the types of folk he chopped it up with, and what lies ahead.
What does lie ahead? Inevitably, more days and nights locked in his oddball studio, as the “King of North Beach” maintains an awesome and inspiring work ethic. Jeremy Fish is, for all intents and purposes, the real deal. To say he works hard would be an understatement worthy of a bid in the Bog of Eternal Stench. While the public gets to soak in the varied fruits of his labor, he is laboring behind the scenes… intensely and always. The guy is an art machine fueled by coffee, beer, and the occasional well-done burger. On any given day, one can wander into Fish’s studio to find an entire new body of work that did not exist one week prior, complete with a storyline as engaging as the images themselves. The output level is shocking in both quality and quantity.
But, in the end, it’s all only as deep as the man behind the drafting table. In an age with fewer and fewer creative heroes worth looking up to, I can say without hesitation that, in this case, the man at the helm of the hand doing the damage is a shepherd worth following. Fish would probably cringe at a comment like that, as his hermitic and occasionally bashful composure doesn’t sponge up compliments well. But, I’m writing this, so fuck him. I’ve been around the world and met a lot of “artists” who eat, shit, and breathe inside a bubble of self-aggrandizement, armies of yes-men at their sides ready to toot the bugles for every flimsy “breakthrough” they put forth. Jeremy Fish avoids that typecasting by boiling his intentions down to their most elemental forms: he makes pictures, he makes a lot of them, he makes them for himself, he makes them for the people, and he makes them from the heart. I am proud to say that I look up to him. You should too.
With a degree in painting and a focus in screenprinting Jeremy’s education and work experience has lead to a career as a fine artist, and a commercial illustrator. Finding a balance between exhibiting his work both across the US, and internationally in galleries and museums. while maintaining a presence designing skateboards, t-shirts, viynl toys, album covers, periodical illustrations, murals, and sneakers. The artwork is mainly about storytelling and communication, told through a library of characters and symbols. With an emphasis on finding a balance with the imagery somewhere between all things cute and creepy. Jeremy has lived and worked in San Francisco for the past 15 years.
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Graphic Painting Commissioned by Hillman Studio for American Vanity fair //
British Eccentrics
Banksy // photography Tim Walker
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PHOTO By MR. TOLEDANO / “HOPE & FEAR” project
Phillip Toledano was born in London to a French Moroccan mother, and an American father. He believes that photographs should be like unfinished sentences. There should always be space for questions.
Phillip’s work is socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography, to installation.
Hope & Fear is the external manifestation of internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in contemporary American society.
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Tim Walker’s photographs have entranced the readers of Vogue. Month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style. After concentrating on photographic stills for 15 years Tim Walker is now also making moving film. He lives in London.
‘Soldier, soldier, won’t you marry me?’ British Vogue, April 2008.
PHOTOGRAPHED by TIM WALKER,
Toy Soldier costume by Shona Heath.
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