A conversation with Gagosian director Antwaun Sargent at Frieze London 2021 unpacking his exhibition exploring the dimensions of space within the context of the African diaspora.
A MAGAZINE CURATED BY GRACE WALES BONNER
Entitled Rhapsody In The Street, A#22 responds to the tradition of Black poetry, literature and portrait photography of the 20th century, featuring a curation of archival portfolios and other historical ephemera, as well as newly commissioned essays, poems, paintings and portraits.
Backstage in Tokyo, Spring Summer 2022
An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the Comme des Garçons Spring Summer 2022 collections in Tokyo, Japan, photographed by Noam Levinger.
Harland Miller’s “French Letter Paintings”
An audience with Harland Miller at his latest exhibition in the new White Cube viewing rooms in Paris. The artist discusses his new works, his experiences at school in York, England, and life in Paris in the 1990s.
Danh Võ at Massimo De Carlo, Milan
With room for transcendence, Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Võ takes us on an unchartered journey through Casa Corbellini-Wassermann, the Piero Portaluppi-designed Massimo De Carlo Gallery in Milan.
In Venice, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino Haute Couture ‘Des Ateliers’
A#20 curator Pierpaolo Piccioli incited a monumental artistic dialogue for the Valentino Haute Couture AW2021-22 collection, inviting 15 artists to create garments directly linked with works of contemporary art.
Christopher Smith’s Surreal Self-Portraiture is on show at Acne Studios’ new Paris address
Before its unexpected return, Acne Paper’s past themes are reimagined by the South African art photographer in a series of self-portraits in Paris.
Emerging from the Primordial Soup, Again: An interview between Alice Bucknell and DEEP
At the Russian Federation Pavilion in Venice, the American writer and artist Alice Bucknell’s film Swamp City imagines the Florida Everglades as a luxury nature resort for high-tech eco-tourism in a near future reality of severe climate disruption.
‘Interior (Evening)’ by Christopher Page at Blue Mountain School, London
In a new site-specific work for the multi-hyphenate cultural space, the British artist brings the Ancient Roman art of trompe l’oeil fresco hurtling into the 21st century with his singular approach to contemporary painting practice.
‘What Artists Wear’: Clothes as Tools of Expression
The British writer Charlie Porter investigates a recent history of contemporary artists through their wardrobes, dissecting the practical and stylistic nuances of clothing as an extension of an artist’s aesthetic and philosophy.
Who The Bær — Simon Fujiwara’s Playful Existentialism at Fondazione Prada, Milano
A cardboard labyrinth demarcates Fujiwara’s exploration of the Sun bear, an immaterial character born from the artist’s questioning of the consumerism, ownership and authenticity of image.
Technologies of the Self, Los Angeles
Curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, the four-person show ‘Technologies of the Self’ at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, is a catacomb of sorts — a room ‘decorated’ with coffins or chrysalises, depending on one’s perspective.
At Dries Van Noten Los Angeles, Len Lye and Viviane Sassen’s Chromatic Movements
The Belgian designer ushers in a triangulation of colour and light for SS 2021, calling upon the early film works of a pioneering New Zealand artist.
Alessandro Michele’s Mosaic of a Century
Gucci Aria was a hybrid sartorial time-lapse, with traces of the past and present scattered with possibilities of what may lie ahead.
At Geneva’s Musée d’Art d’Histoire, Jakob Lena Knebl ‘Walks on the Water’
The Musee d’Art d’Histoire de Geneve is radically rethinking its image and exhibition programming, starting with the intervention of the Austrian artist and designer Jakob Lena Knebl, who has reimagined the ‘body’ of the museum at the crossroads of gender.
Apollinaria Broche’s Imaginary Friends
Exploring the fragility of emotion through ceramics, the Franco-Russian artist Apollinaria Broche added her subversive feminine nuance to Acne Studios’ AW 2021-22 collection.
A#1 MMM as seen by Keisuke Otobe
Milan-based Japanese artist Keisuke Otobe reinterprets a series of images from inside (and outside) the 2021 limited edition reprint of A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela.
Cortina Cross-Country: Miu Miu AW2021-22 by Zora Sicher
As is often the case in Miuccia Prada’s universe, any easy reading of narrative or reference was thrown off at every turn with her Autumn Winter 2021-22 collection for Miu Miu. Brooklyn-based photographer Zora Sicher documented the lookbook and film project in an exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes imagery revealed here.