Entitled ‘Magazines are for indies’, étapes magazine latest edition includes an article about independent publishing projects. The selection includes Acido Surtido, Matador, La Más Bella and Baby Baby Baby. Details of the magazine and the article can be found here (in spanish). Soon, the text about Acido Surtido,
Close up and Private
New spring summer collection 2010 from Sergei Sviatchenko in Close up and Private. And greats interview to Sergei in GymClassMagazine and Dry Goods & Assorted Sundries
Make-Up Republic
Ilustrator Katia Fouquet mentions her collaboration Make-Up Republic for Acido Surtido 19 Public/ Private. Thanks, Katia!
In a few days we will launch the latest edition of Acido Surtido under the concept Explorations. This new release brings together the work of Nate Williams (USA), Samuel Bell (UK), Patric Sandri (Switzerland), Grothesque, Laura Varsky, Fabián Carreras, Akira Patiño, Andrea Castaño, Mauro López, Marina Mariash, Natalí Schejman, Zona de Obras, Irana Douer, and a poster created by Studio Garcia Balza. You can see more details in our updated site.
Titled My Favourite Foldable Cabinet, Rafael Cippolini, an argentinean essay writer wrote about Acido Surtido in the book An Acid Experience, a book that compiles the first ten Acido Surtido issues and selected the most representative works from each one.
Avant-garde groups’ modus operandi (20th century’s landmark) could be defined in a nut shell: a group of artists creating processes to inoculate in the body of art a novelty which pushes (and surpasses) its antecedents thus making them fade away, following modern times progress logic. Collective construction of these processes resulted in a profile, that is, a difference or style.
This kind of conspiracies (remember that conspire means breathing together) which were the ancestors of aesthetical collective groups, worked as a scale community, or a military force happily but tragically heading for an unknown territory. However, there were, but less, different experiences which remained aside the novelty anticipation
neurosis to manufacture an induced anamnesis laboratory: that is, for example, Bureau de Recherches surréalistes founded in Paris in December 1st , 1923 by Antonin Artaud.
An office, a factory, or a laboratory; a place where nobody cares about creating the winning idea but fostering a group auscultation territory with individual fantasies. From its beginning, Acido Surtido has been working as a sort of a visual stethoscopes (mind the cenesthesia), or better, a great ecography machine to analyze and stimulate.
Bureau, office or factory as cells creating information, mechanisms to manage a file cabinet with personal information on a topic. Surtido (varied) refers to the diversity of approaches that are updated and delivered: acid tactics to explore multiple qualities. Acido Surtido develops a detailed thematic plan: presenting visual or textual formats to question the devices that created each topic. A factory or residency. It’s impossible to separate Acido Surtido from hospitality practices of collective care. I must confess that from its first issue, I have enjoyed this mosaic-poster dynamic: the best way to replace a board where captivating images were hang in the old times.
Butteler Square, summer 2006
Organized and produced by David Guarino and A Zillion Ideas, Magazine Library project event was another big success. The 3rd edition welcomed 11,012 visitors during the 5 days of the 100% Design Tokyo event. Many magazines were exhibited in Japan for the first time and some magazines found new distribution routes. Our project Acido Surtido was part of this 5 days + 5 nights event. Images in the Gallery section of Magazine Library
Marian Bantjes in Acido Surtido
From the great designer and tipographer Marian Bantjes, who collaborated in Acido Surtido 18/ Alert!: “Lucas López from Argentina asked me to design the front and back cover for their magazine Acido Surtido. The theme was Alert (…)”
Read more interesting details about the front and back cover in her site.
Fresh cuts from Jakob Hinrichs
German ilustrator Jakob Hinrichs updated his portfolio and shows his last collaboration with Acido Surtido. Text and image clicking here and here.
From Magtastic Blogsplosion
Andrew Losowsky mentions Acido Surtido here and here. Thanks, Andrew!
Alex Trochut from Spain
The superb portfolio from Alex Trochut includes the close collaboration with Vasava
for Acido Surtido 14/ Power. You can see the poster clicking here, and then in Acido Surtido/ Type Illustration.
We met Max Ruf in Luxembourg, and we appreciated his artwork that mix French graphics and Polish posters. His enigmatic work will be exhibited in Winterthur, Switzerland. More details in his site and Acido Surtido, where he collaborated in Public/ Private with an illustration.
Traveling Films presents Deconstructing Acid, a visual essay as a short film that explores the editorial project Acido Surtido and its multiple strategies. The film is an exploration of the various processes creative flow into the project and, by extension, transverse readings. Filmed in various urban spaces common to the collective, Deconstructing Acid also includes a short dialogue with editors Lucas and Mauro López, a reflection about the beginnings of Acido Surtido, the socio-political context and a review of its various editions. More details in the trailer (translated into English, 1′38″). Directed by Julian Vázquez, the film will be exhibited soon.
Acido Surtido interview Fernanda Cohen, a great artist and illustrator from Argentina. You can see more about Fernanda in this School of Visual Arts street promotion by Hillman Curtis. Thanks, Fer!
Acido Surtido: In your artwork there is a close link with fashion, could you tell us how your work process is in relation to the requirements in this field?
Fernanda Cohen: My career in fashion illustration began by chance because there was someone, with the means and success, who saw something in me when I was still drawing fat people eating passionately. So I got started almost without realizing it. As a consequence my fashion drawings don’t follow the common style seen in most fashion illustration. The fashion clients who commission work from me always want “real” female bodies, otherwise my work doesn’t fit. I have lots of fun because not only do I get to draw but I also work with a subject-matter I consume and understand (fashion) and I use photo reference of myself. Very private and personal photos.
AS: What are your influences in fashion and illustration?
FC: Martin Churba is my favorite designer of all time, as well as Leigh Bowery, Michael Alig and Alexander McQueen from time to time. When it comes to illustration I’m more influenced by creative thinkers than bycreators of beauty. Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg are the ones I admire the most but I don’t believe there is a direct influence on my work.
AS: How is your experience teaching illustration at School of Visual Arts?
FC: It is an honor to be back teaching after only four years since I graduated from the same program where I teach. SVA is among the top three illustration schools in the US thanks to its faculty of “stars.” So being part of it makes me feel proud and accomplished at my age. Teaching, as every professor says, is a very rewarding experience that also teaches me a lot about myself and my work. I’m happy to be able to pass on my experience to students who are not much younger than I am and can still relate to my story. It is also very fulfilling to notice the progress in students’ work and to feel a part of it.
AS: Finally, what are, in your opinion, the most trend-setting magazines in fashion and design nowadays?
FC: In Argentina 90 +10, design wise. I don’t buy enough fashion magazines to know. In the US: Tokion, Paper, Nylon and Interview magazines feature great design and fashion. In design I read Communication Arts and Print.
Founded in 2002 in Milan Italy by Donnachie, Simionato & Son, This is a magazine (TIAM) has been described as “a publishing phenomenon”(Varoom), “the most beautiful magazine on the web”(D della Repubblica), “a paper sculpture…a book of experimental expression”(Ozon Magazine), pretentious…fantastic”(Contemporary), and “seriously mind-blowing” (crowndozen.com). Publishing periodic online episodes with artists working in and around the internet, the project includes a series of award-winning printed compendia available through the website as well as contemporary art galleries and museum bookstores.
In bookstores from September 2009, the title of the 6th printed Compendium from This is a magazine refers to science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s final novel “Valis” in which the protagonist receives extra-terrestrial transmissions on a beam of pink light of unknown origin: “God, he told us, had fired a beam of pink light directly at him, at his head, his eyes; Fat had been temporarily blinded and his head had ached for days. It was easy, he said, to describe the beam of pink light; it’s exactly what you get as a phosphene after-image when a flashbulb has gone off in your face. Fat was spiritually haunted by that color. Sometimes it showed up on a TV screen. He lived for that light, that one particular color.” Pink Laser Beam appears to defy logic, revealing new associations and hidden meanings as it unfolds in time and space. In an edition of 666 copies each containing 180 pages of scored, punch-cut, embossed, drilled and folded works on paper (and plastic) stitched into a hard-bound cold-foil printed cover which is then wrapped in a giant poster dust-jacket (on the reverse of which are a series of appendices and related texts, a supplement to the final index of artworks and authors).
A close collaboration between This is a Magazine and Acido Surtido, here.
