Aesthetica Magazine Issue 50

December / January 2013

This issue marks the 10th anniversary and the 50th edition of Aesthetica. Inside we have our usual features, but there’s also a look back at the magazine over the years. It was such a great experience working on this feature and re-living the journey.

We start with Sanja Iveković’s first UK retrospective, Unknown Heroine, which explores four decades of the artist’s work and is on display across Calvert 22 and the South London Gallery. We also take a look at how Tokyo re-invented itself in the post-war years in the latest MoMA show, Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde. Dorothy Bohm, one of Britain’s most revered female photographers, showcases a selection from her esteemed output with her latest show, Women in Focus. Isa Genzken’s latest show is on at Hauser & Wirth, Savile Row, and highlights a new body of sculptural assemblages, fusing sculpture with photography, architecture and found objects. Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour, on now at Somerset House, London, juxtaposes 10 Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs with over 75 works by 15 international contemporary photographers. We also explore the works of Alex Prager and Evgenia Arbugaeva, who are some of photography’s rising stars, as well as introducing the seductive images of Montana Lowery. Finally, we present a 10 year overview of Aesthetica, revisiting some of our favourite features.

In film, we speak with Mark Herbert about Warp Films’ 10th anniversary and look closely at some of their seminal works. We also take a look back at ASFF 2012 and offer you a report on this year’s festival. In music, we examine the meaning of the special edition and a label’s motivation for producing it as a release. We also chat with Ana Silvera about inspiration and her debut album, The Aviary. In performance, we speak with Gísli Örn Garðarsson about physical theatre and his latest adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Finally, the last words go to Jeremy Hutchison, whose latest show ERRATUM* opens at Paradise Row, London. I hope that you enjoy this very special issue of Aesthetica.

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Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years

Featuring conversations with the likes of Alex Katz, Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel, the book collects both the words and the works of the artists that followed Warhol.

Sonic Youth

In this newly released recording of a 1985 Sonic Youth gig, the haunting vibrancy is more than audible. It’s easy to hear this and lose your mind to the dingy images of the Chicago music venue.

Singing Adams

The follow-up to his acclaimed album, Everybody Friends Now, Singing Adams’ new release, Moves, does not disappoint.

Naytronix

Catchy, chilled out and, some may even say, cerebral. There’s even a summery vibe, but don’t let that put you off; instead let it cast its glow over your winter.

In Your Hands (Contre Toi)

Alone in a cell-like room, plagued and tormented by her captor, Yann, surgeon Anna is forced to confront the personal and professional facets of her personality.

Midnight To The Boom: Painting in India After Independence

This book examines the revolutionary art movement that grew in India between its declaration of independence in 1947 and the economic boom of the 1990s.

Super Best Friends Club

Esoteric is the word of the day as the wonderfully named Super Best Friends Club unleashes its epic journey of a debut LP.

Planas

Certain tracks, such as Cry Wolf, could form a fitting soundtrack to a grand and intense piece of performance art.

Art in Oceania: A New History

Challenging the notion that Oceanic art consists essentially of masks and sculptures, this book exposes how the peoples of Oceania created an incredible range of art forms and great art traditions.

A Simple Life

In A Simple Life, the aloof movie producer Roger treats his live-in servant Ah Tao with dismissiveness, until illness upsets the balance of their shared existence.

Pop Art

Collins’ text skilfully moves through the different eras of Pop. He also looks at Pop Art in relation to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.

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