Out Of This World
A journey through beautiful curiosities and foreign worlds of the past, present and future.
Featuring artist Cassander Eeftinck Shattenkerk on the cover.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010). She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.
Courtesy of the author.
Works first appeared in "Sharks in the Rivers", published by Milkweed Editions in 2010.
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Adam Cruces
Adam Cruces was born in 1985 in Houston, TX. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2008 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. Lived in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Zurich, Switzerland where he is currently working towards his MFA at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
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Benbo George
Benbo George is a graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from the Wirral, Merseyside, he now divides his time between Liverpool and London. He draws on various media to create his work.
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Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk was bornin 1974 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has had solo shows at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Seelevel in Amsterdam. His work has also appeared in group shows at Orto Botanico in Rome, Gallery on Old Bailey in Hong Kong, and Galerie 10 in Utrecht, Netherlands, amongst others. He has been featured in publications such as Wallpaper Magazine and Blend Magazine. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Che Easson
Che Easson is a photographer, filmmaker and artist living in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He is represented in South Korea by ARCK.
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http://sites.google.com/site/cheneasson
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Christoph Fink
Christoph Fink calls his journeys by various means, by bicycle, train, aeroplane or by foot, ‘movements’. The in-between, the experiences between the point of departure and the destination of these journeys are of more interest than their objective. Journeys are processes of research which pursue questions such as: What is happening to me physically and spiritually here and now? Whom am I encountering here and now? What image does the sky reveal here and now? These questions are answered by handwritten notes, acoustic recordings or by computer statistics. The simultaneous and successive events overlap, become manifest on closely written, small slips of paper. Experiences in the countryside, in the city, in nature are witnessed by installations composed of photographs, drawings, diagrams and sculptures. They form an inventory based on measurements and figures, and simultaneously formulate questions concerning the dimensions of time, space and the relationship of humans to their environment. -Meike Behm. Excerpt from Gagarin, Sixth Edition (www.gagarin.be).
Christoph Fink was born in Ghent in 1963. He has shown internationally at a number of galleries including Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the Venice Biennale in Italy, and The Drawing Center in New York. He currently resides in Ghent and Brussels.
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Claire L. Evans
Claire Evans was born in Swindon, UK. Evans graduated Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, in 2006. She played in noise bands in the LA underground before developing a career as a professional science writer, multimedia artist, and one half of the art-dance-pop band, YACHT.
She is now a freelance science writer, science fiction critic, polymath, and musician. Her work explores the synchronies between culture, technology, and science. She has been writing the art/science blog Universe for over five years. She currently lives in Portland, OR.
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Don Van Vliet
Don Van Vliet is a legendary figure in both music and the visual arts. Growing up in Glendale, California, Don Van Vliet gained notoriety as a child prodigy who sculpted life-like animal forms out of clay. He would continue to draw, paint and sculpt throughout his life, but in the early 1960s music became his main passion. Performing under the stage name Captain Beefheart, together with his Magic Band Don Van Vliet produced a number of highly unconventional blues- and rock-inspired albums. After two decades in the spotlight as an avant-garde rock composer and performer, Don Van Vliet turned his back on the music industry and since the early 1980s has devoted his entire efforts to painting. Since 1985 Don Van Vliet’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. He passed away in December 2010.
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Eikoh Hosoe
Eikoh Hosoe was born in Yonezawa, Yamagata in 1933 and graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1951. He exhibited in his first solo show in 1956 and has since established himself as an internationally acclaimed photographer. Eikoh Hosoe’s work has been exhibited in the International Center of Photography and Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nikon Salon, Tokyo; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Smithsonian, Washington D. C. Published works include: Man and Woman, 1959, Embrace, 1971, The Cosmos of Gaudi, 1986 and Eikoh Hosoe, 1986, among numerous others. He has been a professor of photography at Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics since 1975 teaching various photography workshops worldwide.
Images featured here are from “Kamaitachi”, published by The Aperture Foundation in 2009 and originally published in 1969 as a limited edition photo book of 1000 pieces.
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From The Rubin Museum of Art Collection
The Rubin Museum of Art is a nonprofit cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas. Its mission is to establish, present, preserve, and document a permanent collection that reflects the vitality, complexity, and historical significance of Himalayan art and to create exhibitions and programs designed to explore connections with other world cultures. The Rubin Museum is committed to addressing a diverse audience—from connoisseurs and scholars to the general public. Through its collection, exhibitions, and programs, the Rubin Museum is an international center for the preservation, study, and enjoyment of Himalayan art.
The Green Lama Comic pieces are from "Hero, Villain, Yeti", exhibition at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, on show from December 9, 2011 to June 11, 2012.
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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, AKA Cheik Nadro, was born in 1923 in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa. He was amongst the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial government. His drawings depict many different subjects, mostly drawn from local folklore with some from his own vision. Frédéric is of the Bété origin, a people who have an oral, unwritten language. He invented his alphabet starting from the Bété language. He considered the alphabet to be universal, but named it the “National Ivoryan alphabet”. He today lives in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Seventh Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Guido Mocafico
Guido Mocafico was born in Switzerland in 1962. He specializes in still life photography and works regularly for international magazines such as Numèro, Paris Vogue, Big, The Face, Self-Service, and Wallpaper. He has also undertaken numerous advertising campaigns for Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Clinique, Shiseido, and Hermès. Mocafico continues to explore aesthetic and scientific themes in nature. He lives in Paris. In 2005, Steidl published his book “Venenum”, showing pictures of jellyfish, snakes, and tarantulas. Earlier this year, he exhibited Guns and Roses at Hamilton’s Gallery in London.
Images first appeared in “Medusa”, published by Steidl in 2006.
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Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker.
The KEYHOLE PROJECT started out of frustration I experienced trying to find within any of my movies a single central image strong enough to go directly onto a movie poster. I was always happy with the overall look of my films, but I began to lament the absence of an iconic, unforgettable shot. So, I promised myself I would start my next script, not with so many words, but with images -- strong, original compositions -- instead.
My collage party doyen friend Paul Butler assembled for me an exciting group of extremely gifted Canadian artists -- Michael Dumontier, Shari Boyle, Simon Hughes, Brad Phillips, Jeff Funnell -- and with them we set out to make images based on a simple two-sentence outline of my next movie's story. These wonderful collage pieces are the result!
-Guy Maddin, 2008
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Hisham Bharoocha
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He concentrates on creating music, visual art, and photography. Bharoocha has had solo exhibitions of his work at D'Amelio Terras gallery in New York, as well as Vleeshal, a state run space in The Netherlands. He has been in numerous group exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects, John Connelly Presents, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work has been published in Art Forum, V, i-D, Flaunt, Tokion, and Blend to name a few.
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James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was born in North Dakota in 1933. He is now known as one of the protagonists of the pop-art movement. Early on, he attended drawing classes organized by Jack Youngerman and Robert Indiana; and at the same time, designed store windows and painted billboards to earn a living. He gained international acclaim in 1965 with his room-scale painting “F-111”. His prints have frequently been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. They can be found in many permanent collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Honors of his include an appointment to a six-year term to the Board of the National Council of the Arts in 1978 and receiving the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement in 1988.
Images featured here are from “James Rosenquist”, exhibition book published by Haunch of Venison.
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Jan Albers
Jan Albers was born in Wuppertal, Germany, in 1971 and grew up in Namibia. He received his MA from the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf in 1998. Past works appeared in exhibitions at the Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf, Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York, Konrad Fischer Galerie in Dusseldorf, and The Drawing Room in London. His now lives and works in Dusseldorf, and is represented by the Van Horn Gallery.
Images first appeared in "Jan Albers", exhibition catalog for Mönchehaus Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Goslar, Germany, published by Revolver Books in 2007.
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Jeremy Olson
Jeremy Olson received his BFA from University of Arizona in 2000 and his MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2009. Recent exhibitions of his work include “Divide & Conquer” at The Spirol Gallery, “One and Three-Quarters of an Inch” at St Cecilia Convent, 2010 Keaf International Experiment Film Festival at Seoul Art Space_SEOGYO, and “I See Myself in You” at the Bronx Art Space. He now resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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Johann Johannson
Johann Johannsson is a musician, composer, and producer, born in 1969 in Reykjavík, Iceland. He is a co-founder of Kitchen Motors in Reykjavík, an art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in initiating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms. Jóhann also founded the Apparat Organ Quartet in 1999, who have played various European festivals. Jóhann is a member of the Icelandic electronica supergroup Evil Madness. Also, he has taught a course on the creative use of sound in art, film and multimedia at Borgarholts College in Reykjavík.
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Katsuyo Aoki
Katsuyo Aoki was born in Tokyo, Japan. Previous exhibitions include “Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, “Power of Decoration, A Viewpoint of Contemporary Kougei (Studio Craft)” at the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, “Asian Ceramic Delta-Japan, Korea and Taiwan” at the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu, Japan, the 2006 Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) Exhibition at the UENO Royal Museum in Tokyo, and a solo exhition titled “Interludes” at the Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York, NY. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, and is preparing for three shows this fall and winter, including one in October at PAD London and one in November at PAD New York.
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www.katsuyoaoki.s1.bindsite.jp
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Ken Lum
Ken Lum was born in Vancouver in 1956. He has shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, the Galerie Art & Public in Geneva, and Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló in Spain. Ken Lum is represented by Galerie Nelson in Paris, Galerie Lothar Albrecht in Frankfurt, and Galerie Grita Insam in Vienna. He currently resides in Vancouver.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Sixth Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Mary Beach
Mary Beach was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1919. Her first solo show was at the Galerie du Bearn, in Pau, France in 1943. She attended the Hartford Art School, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the esteemed Grande Chaumière, where she studied under Henri Goetz. She exhibited at the historic Salon des Indépendents in Paris in 1957 and 1958; won the Prix du Dome at the Salon des Femmes Peintres in 1959; and 1st Prize, Vichy, France, Silver Medal in 1959; and was exhibited at the Salon des Surindépendents in Paris in 1960. She worked at City Lights, in San Francisco, where she discovered and published the poet Bob Kaufman and, under her own imprint of Beach Books, published William Burroughs. She collaborated extensively with Allen Ginsberg.
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Ouyang Jianghe
Ouyang Jianghe was born in 1956 in Beijing. Jianghe is the author of several collections of poetry, including Through the Glass of Words (1997), Who is Gone, and Who Remains (1997), Tears of Things (2008), as well as a book of reviews and essays, Standing on the Side of Fiction (2000). He is the president of the literary magazine Jintian and currently lives in Beijing.
Austin Woerner, a native of Boston, studied Chinese at Yale and Tsinghua and since graduating in 2008 has dedicated himself to translating contemporary Chinese poetry and fiction into English. His translations of the poems of Ouyang Jianghe have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Zoland Poetry, and Peregrine, and are forthcoming in anthology form from Zephyr Press. He lives in Brooklyn, and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the New School.
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Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal is a Dutch-Brazilian visual artist who uses the internet as his canvas. He created BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), an open source DIY curatorial. Selected exhibitions include Venice Biennial, Valencia Biennial, Moca Taipei, Casa Franca Brasil Rio, TSCA Gallery Tokyo (solo), Spencer Brownstone Gallery NYC (solo), NIMk Amsterdam (solo), and Stedelijk Museum project space (solo). Selected press includes Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Interview Magazine, Wired Magazine, Purple Magazine, McSweeney’s, and O Globo.
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www.25minutestogo.com www.beefchickenpork.com www.burningmytime.com www.fataltotheflesh.com www.fromthedarkpast.com www.goodbyefarewell.com www.hotdoom.com www.intotime.com www.intotime.org www.towardsandbeyond.com
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Ram Dass
Ram Dass, AKA Dr. Richard Alpert, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is a disciple of the Hindu guru, Sri Neem Karoli Baba. Alpert is well-known for his association with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, both having been dismissed from their professorships for experiments on the effects of psychedelic drugs on human subjects. After a few years of drug experimentation, Alperts found himself still searching, which took him to India in 1967. There, he met and became a disciple of the Hindu guru, Neem Karoli Baba, who gave him the name Ram Dass, which means "servant of God". In 1969, Ram Dass returned to the United States and founded several organizations dedicated to expanding spiritual awareness and promoting spiritual growth, including the Hanuman Foundation. In 1971, he wrote the best seller Be Here Now, which in a time of confusion, gave people hope.
Images originally appeared in "Remember, Be Here Now" by Ram Dass, published by the Hanuman Foundation in 1971.
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Reuben Margolin
Reuben Margolin was born in Berkeley, CA, and received his BA in English from Harvard University. He went on to study at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia. He has shown and been commissioned for work all over the world, including the San Francisco Exploratorium, Derek Ellen Gallery in New York, and Kinectiva in London. Most recently, he has collaborated with Gideon Obarzanek and Chunky Move and has pieces at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX, the Swiss Science Center, David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA, Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, CA, Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA, Meyer Sound in Berkeley, CA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
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Ruth Van Beek
Ruth van Beek was born in Zaandam, Netherlands, in 1977. She graduated in 2002 from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a Masters in Photography. In 2008, she had a solo exhibition at Foam-3h, the Amsterdam Photography museum, In 2009, she did research at the Spaarnestad Photoarchives, resulting in new work and a solo exhibition at Galerie37Spaarnestad in Haarlem, this exhibition was also shown at the Use me Abuse me show at the New York Photofestival, curated by Erik Kessels. Her work regularly appears in various books and magazines. She currently resides in Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands.
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Sarah Palmer
Sarah Palmer was born in San Francisco, and lives in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts in 2008, where she was awarded an Aaron Siskind Scholarship, and her BA from Vassar College in 1999. Her work has been exhibited both in the US and internationally, most recently at Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, in summer 2011. She has been published in print and online journals, as well as exhibition catalogs, and has recently contributed an essay and visual dialogue to Foam's What's Next project. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Wild Project in New York City in Spring 2010. Additionally, she has worked with Rooftop Films, a film festival and production collective, since 2001, and is now on its Board of Directors. She is currently full-time faculty in the Photography program at Parsons The New School for Design.
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www.sarahpalmerphotography.com
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Sasha Rudensky
Sasha Rudensky was born in 1979 in Moscow, Russia. She studied Studio Art and Russian Literature at Wesleyan University where she received a BA in 2001. She received her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2008. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University and Lecturer at Yale University. Sasha resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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Sebastiaan Bremer
Sebastiaan Bremer was born in The Netherlands in 1970. He moved to New York in 1992. An autodidact, he enrolled in the Free Academy in The Hague in 1989-1991. In 1998 he went to Skowhegan, and in 2001 to Art Omi. In recent years he was a visiting professor at VCU, SVA and Cooper Union, and was resident artist at the Lower East Side Printshop in 2006/2007. He has curated several projects between 1992 and the present. His work is in many collections around the world, including the MoMA, LACMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sebastiaan is scheduled to have solo exhibits at the Museum Huis Voor Fotografie Marseille in 2012/2013 and at Edwynn Houk Gallery in Zuerich in 2012.
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Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle was born in Paris, France, in 1953. She has shown her work at ARC Musée dʼArt Moderne de la Ville in Paris, France, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami, The Venice Biennale, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. She currently resides in Paris and is represented by the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Fifth Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Surasi Kusolwong
Surasi Kusolwong was born in Bangkok in 1965. He has shown at the Center of Contemporary Art in Malmö, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Tate Modern. He currently lives in Bangkok.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Sixth Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Vasily Kandinsky
Vasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. One of the great masters of modern art, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, and began painting in 1896. He further studied at Anton Ažbe’s private school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He organized 22 museums in Russia and became the director of the Musuem of Pictorial Culture. He taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922-1933, then moving to France where he lived out his remaining years. He passed away in 1944 at the age of 78.
Images featured here are from “Vasily Kandinsky”, published by Grange Books in 2004.
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Wendy Videlock
Wendy Videlock lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Rattapallax, Measure, Redivider, Ale House Press, Smartish Pace, Zone 3, Rattle, and other literary journals. Her book, "Nevertheless" is available from Able Muse Press.
"Hawk", "Vanity Flare", and “The woman with a tumor in her neck” first appeared in Poetry. Courtesy of the author.
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Wyne Veen
Wyne Veen was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1983. She has recently worked on IKEA Spain advertisements, shown at the Galleria Yono in Santiago, Chile, and regularly contributes to Surface Magazine. She is currently finishing work on a book, published by AB Books in Venice. about the cultural value of the apple.
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Öyvind Fahlström
Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström was born in Sáo Paulo, Brazil, in 1928. He has shown at Sidney Janis Gallery in NY, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in NY, and the Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Paris. He passed away in 1976.
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