Sept. 2005 to Sept. 2007

working on ArtSEEN journal, issue 1, spring 06 - layout on the wall,
with proof prints of Martin Siegrist's intervention "No"

The summer ArtSEEN journal is flying: you can find it in various galleries, where it is reported it sits on the desk of the gallerist who shows it to all; the Chinese and Japanese love it; from Puert Rico there are possibilities of participation in various events; in Berlin it is being introduced to galleries and bookshops; from NY new voices wish to join in the project; from Florida it receives invites to be media-partner for events organized around Art Basel Miami; museums and curators from Colombia call for it to arrive into their hands....

Two years ago in September (was it the 9th?) the concept for ArtSEEN journal was born.
It is through the participation, work, time and dedication of many artists that the SEEN became a reality!
It is with a lot of joy that I can say: the ArtSEEN journal project is growing, with new collaboration form the people who meet the journal – and then decide to join the project!!!

Vittorio Corsini's intervention in ArtSEEN journal, issue 6, summer 07 "ma"

Some of the feedback we’ve received on the Summer issue:

The publication is stunning. Thankyou so much.
David Gothard

David Gothard is the former artistic director of Riverside Studios. As a director he works between the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Derry, Northern Ireland and the Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa. In London he is a guest speaker at the Slade and he teaches at Chelsea College of Art and the National Film School.


At the moment, I'm working on a show in Frankfurt end of August (…), videos of course, but for (almost) the first time I've added a text I've just finished writing and sent off to be translated into German and printed to be given away as part of the show (I'll send you copies)...which I'm quite excite about because of the design/form; hope it works out. And if I hadn't have written for ArtSEEN I may not have got to this idea.
Anyway, thanks again, always a treat to hear from you...look forward to the next theme.

BTW, the copy of the last issue that I sent to Donald Smith sits in his office in his gallery and I've know he's been showing it to people as I'd heard some very positive comments about it. Well done.
Neil Stewart

Neil Stewart is an artist, and Programme Director, Global Art Practice at Chelsea College of Art & Design – The University of the Arts London. He collaborates with ArtSEEN journal on a regular basis.

I was sent and showed your journal by Elena Bajo - whom I am friends and colleagues with. (…)
I loved the image and would love to submit to a part of your whole macrocosm....globalization has created a visible macrocosm, before it was the world of mystery and mystics - now its the world of web cookies and links ...but congrats, its a gorgeous venture -!
Renee Vara

Renee Vara is, among other, private curator, founder of Vara Global Fine Arts, LLC

Today I received the box of ArtSEEN journals, summer issue. It is sooooo beautiful!!!! Congratulations on inventing a wonderful format for the journal! to find the text inserted on lined paper within the magazine is like finding a secret note someone hid inside a
book, a real journal, like a diary, of thoughts and sensibilities.
It is also just such a nice object to hold.

I wish I knew how to say FANTASTIC!!!! In Italian!
Sue Carlson

Sue Carlson in an artist, and ArtSEEN journal Representative in New York .

I wanted to tell you that I showed ArtSEEN to a few people I know and they loved it.
I think it's a beautiful project, you should stick to it till the end and enjoy every minute
of it. That is why I have considered your offer and I feel honored and overwhelmed that you have chosen me to intervene in your next issue. I would love to work with you and your friends.
Jason Mena

Jason Mena is an artist, living in Puerto Rico. We are also very pleased to announce that he is the “intervening artist” of ArtSEEN issue 7, autumn 07.

Italian Scene

April Woods, Christian Rainer

I had the chance to meet Christian Rainer in Trentino lately where I was invited to have a personal show. Christian had three pieces during the whole event that lasted for 3 days, among those Falena:
City lights were entirely turned off, while Christian played the piano inside the Church and you could hear his music going through all the darkness, like introducing people to something that is about to happen, like preparing them for silence, for an uncommon break in their lives; at the end of the music, lights were only turned on in the Palazzo DeMartin, people were now conscious of one of the most beautiful things they have, a Building from the 400 ‘s.
Christian said: There is already so much, why creating more….
He points out what is already there but we can’t see it anymore..

Christian Rainer has multiple origins and feels equally from each place, where he was born, where he was grown and where he lives now, Italy. He is a musician and a visual artist, a powerful creative mind.

Christian just had a couple of videos at Centro Pecci that I highly recommend to see. On this event called Videminuto other two young artists where exhibiting, Ericailcane and Marco Raparelli, these three artists strongly represent the various ways Italian contemporary scene is developing. Ericailcane with his almost disturbing creatures and Marco Raparelli with his amazing sense of humour.

My suggestion is to go and check these artists, they might be the future in the Italian scene
http://www.ericailcane.org/
http://www.christianrainer.com/

2000 lightyears from home

"wie seltsam glimmert durch die Gründe
ein morgenrötlich trüber Schein!
Und selbst bis in die tiefen Schlünde
des Abgrunds wittert er hinein"

(Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust I, Walpurgisnacht )




hi gordana,
today my proposal for the pool of the youngest looked like this.
i just wanted to design like nature 1000 meters below zero in the sea.
they thought, it was a joke. i found it quite funny, nevertheless
there is no sense of humour in the world of architecture.....

hope you are fine.

thomas

Published here with the kind permission of Thomas Wirsing, architect.

Thomas is currently working in Vienna, on a public swimming pools project. He is one of the most brilliant creative minds I know, and finding his comment ironically funny, and his design high minded and beautiful, I asked his permission to publish his recent email to me, with the “rejected” concept for a children’s swimming pool.
Thomas, together with Sabine Wolf, has published an article in ArtSEEN journal, issue 2, summer 06, which can be read on www.undo.net (Italian and English)

ArtSEEN Plus First Anniversary!!

One year ago we thought of starting a supplement to ArtSEEN Journal as a solution for our constant changes on format and the difficulty it created for us to be able to sell advertisement in different sizes everytime.

That is how ArtSEEN Plus was born!!! We thought of it as an Art Guide, as a "Printed show" where artists, galleries and even art students had the chance to promote their work for really competitive prices, from first issue it inmedaitely revealed an excellent platform for artists and our biggest satisfaction was to hear that artists got invitations to show after putting an Ad in the Plus. 50% of the artists that have published in ArtSEEN once has repeated the operation so many of them have been in more than one issue in only one year!!

We went from 1000 copies to 5000 copies already in the second issue, that are distributed in major galleries as Continua in San Gimignano, Pierogi 2000 in New York, Traghetto Gallery Rome, Primo Piano in Lecce among others as fixed distributors and other galleries and institutions that asked to be listed in our calendar so it travels all over and everytime to different places.

We are pleased to announce the first Anniversary of ArtSEEN Plus, a free supplement to ArtSEEN Journal that makes possible the best art promotion and the publication of both ArtSEEN Journal and ArtSEEN Plus.

Thanks to all of you!!!

If you want to have more information on it or book a page please contact us.

After the SEEN

In the weeks after the SEEN is printed, we usually have a bit more time to dedicate to other aspects of work and life, aspects that nevertheless are continuous... Here’s what the three of us are up to these days, a self interview!
Andrew J: AJ
Gordana: G
Sandra: S

What are you doing right now?

AJ: Teaching a class in 20th Century Italian Art History.
G: Sitting at the computer, glad of the ventilator fan...
S: Working and thinking I would like to be somewhere else...

What are you working on now?

AJ: Continuing series of "Untitled – Interiors" (ink drawings), and painting – a series of monochromatic, floral motif paintings based on the work of the Dutch artist Van Beyeren.
G: I’m mainly working on ignoring all the things I have to do, until the last minute: all to do with house maintenance bills, and coping with general life bureaucracy…
S: Layout of a catalogue, graphics of my artist's business card, cancelling with pleasure those things I've already done from my long promemoria.

Where will you be in 2 weeks time?

AJ: Nashville, Tennessee
G: In Zurich, Switzerland
S: In Cartagena, Colombia, probably in the terrace of my father's colonial house in the historical center, having a refago (colombian cocktail, consisting in beer and a soda only produced there) hopefully with a book and not the laptop!!!

What will you do there?

AJ: Relax, see friends, hang out with mom...
G: Whittling. I aim to whittle down a little ladder. Or anything else that is whittlable and takes my fancy.
S: I'll see some of my family, will visit friends and actually will work out some contacts both for the magazine and for my own artwork and hopefully the most wanted vacation time.


Own art projects on the go?

AJ: Finalist of Arte Laguna contest; preparing work for auction for AMRAF (charity) in Rome in Autumn.
G: Still trying to finish my drawing! Have started and continue a series of mini videos (30 seconds), a collection of “moments” – from travelling, to sitting at home – a ray of sun light on the curtain, a butterfly, a rain storm. And one of my favourites, a nun sweeping the garden at 1.30 a.m.!
S: Planning a performance in Calcata (near Rome), working on an installation about "erosion" for a show in September, extending a piece for a show in Brazil in November, always in the healing rituals theme!! (and a lot of other little things)

Books read/reading?

AJ: The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
G: Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – after 9 years of following the adventure!
Also, Augusten Burroughs – Possible Side Effects.
Have practically re-read 100 books in the last two weeks since the Summer SEEN is finished!
S: Just finished all the catalogues from Venice Biennale, Dokumenta and Skuptur Project and just started the one AJ gave me for my birthday Under...

Other interesting observation?

AJ: It’s really hot! That’s key : July is too hot.
G: I never know how I am going to do all the things I have to do, until the very last minute!
S: Hmmm... yes.... it is a very creative moment for me, an explosion of illumination happening here, let's hope for it to be loooooooooooooooooooong____________________________

Quoted!

We've been quoted!
http://undo.net/Pressrelease/edit06/

In Italian only...

A view

Jason Mena, installation view

I liked this work so much, I had to steal it. I did ask permission before stealing it, and it was granted. So, here is the first legally stolen pic for blog!
xxxg