Summer 2014 – Magenta Magazine

Magenta Magazine

Magenta Magazine

Summer 2014 Contents

Editor’s Letter

Cutting and Pasting by Bill Clarke

On the Cover

Richard Avedon: Ringo (1967). Poster.

Features

Everyman’s Medium Navigating politics, photography and collage with Jp King
by Sky Goodden

The World His Way The beautiful, lurid, generous and evil work of Balint Zsako
by Trish Boon

Coping Mechanism Elizabeth Zvonar's photographs bring collage into the digital age
by Jason Gowans

Love We Do Fifty years since the advent of Beatlemania, the Fab Four continue to inspire contemporary artists
by Bill Clarke

Portfolios

Sarah Clifford-Rashotte

Jacob Robert Whibley

Exhibition Reviews

Rebecca Belmore by Alex Bowron

CAFK+A.14 by Adam Barbu

Getting Rid of Ourselves by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

Sophie Jodoin & Jacinthe Lessard-L by James D. Campbell

Natascha Niederstrass by James D. Campbell

Sympathetic Magic by Bart Gazzola

Studio View

Callum Schuster by Bill Clarke

Books & Film

Finding Vivian Maier by Bil Antoniou

Parting Shot

Canadian Icons by Bill Clarke

Editor’s Letter

Richard Hamilton: Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956). Collage, 10.25 x 9.75 inches. Courtesy the Richard Hamilton Estate.

Cutting and Pasting

Features

The day I discovered vinyl we were all sitting in a darkened room listening to a heartbeat dissolve into the clatter of a cash register, and then someone screamed (2011). Collage, 24 x 36 inches. All images courtesy the artist.

Everyman’s Medium

Balint Zsako: Carolina Parakeet (Carolina Parrot), 2014. Collage 6.4 x 5.0 inches

The World His Way

Elizabeth Zvonar: Metaphysical (2014). Digital inkjet print of a hand cut collage, 24 x 20 inches. Images courtesy the artist, Gallery 295, Vancouver and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.

Coping Mechanism

Michael Rakowitz: The Break-Up (2010-14). Collaged record album cover. Courtesy the artist and Rhona Hoffman, Chicago.

Portfolios

Sand Castle (2013). Mixed media collage, 9 x 8 inches.

Sarah Clifford-Rashotte

it from bit (2013). 6.75 x 11 inches, paper ephemera. Images courtesy the artist, Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto and Bourouina Gallery, Berlin.

Jacob Robert Whibley

Simone Rochon: Stèle No. 12 (2013)

Exhibition Reviews

Rebecca Belmore: sister (2010). Colour inkjet on transparencies. Images courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Belmore

Laura Moore: One Man’s Junk, installation view during CAFK+A.14 (2014).

Claire Fontaine: Untitled (Tennis ball sculpture, 2008), installation view at Onsite [at] OCAD University, Toronto.

Getting Rid of Ourselves

Jacinthe Lessard-L.: Installation view at Battat Contemporary (2014).

Sophie Jodoin & Jacinthe Lessard-L

Natascha Neiderstrass: L’Affaire de Camden Town, installation view at Galerie Occurrence (2014). Images courtesy the artist. Installation photos: Mathieux Proulx.

Natascha Niederstrass

Adad Hannah: Cyclist Stopped on a Path, from the series The Russians (2011). HD video; 5 min, 9 sec. Image courtesy Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal and Equinox Gallery, Vancouver.

Sympathetic Magic

Studio View

Toronto artist Callum Schuster in his Niagara Street studio, July 2014.

Callum Schuster

Books & Film

Vivian Maier: Chicago, undated.

Finding Vivian Maier

Parting Shot

John Reeves: Margaret Atwood, 1972