Acido Surtido in De Zines exhibition
‘De Zines’, tries to reflect what is happening in the contemporary editorial creation on the level of independent publications, how this area relates to the artistic production and social, cultural and current political environment. Around 400 international publications have been gathered from most established magazines in the market until handmade zines and a selection of experimental magazines. ’De Zines’, articulated as a consultation room, a space that does not only creates traffic but a place to stay, increasing the desire to know, trying to help the audience to find a those issues so that a sense of recognition. In short, create networks among people with a similar vision in a global and plural world. In images, the catalog from De Zines exhibition and installations. All magazines here.
Seen in magCulture
This folding problems remember us our Acido Surtido magazine. As Jeremy Leslie says in his post Can you fold the Esquire zine?: “A reminder from UK Esquire that complicated formats are, well, complicated. Here, a number of staffers attempt to show how their London Fashion Week fanzine can be re-folded once opened. The 16-page special featured trend tips from experts and opened out to reveal a poster tribute to Alexander McQueen.”
Acido Surtido in étapes
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,
At a glance
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!
Acido Surtido 20 / Explorations
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.
An old text, another beautiful text
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
From Tokyo, Magazine Library
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
At a glance
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.
The art of Max Ruf
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.
Deconstructing Acid / A film about Acido Surtido
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.
