Chicago (art magazine)
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Chicago, Times, Plotter, Helvetica, DIN, Techno, Löhfelm, RR_02, Univers, Tiffany, Circuit and Memphis are the 12 issues of the Chicago magazine founded in 2002 in Vienna
by a group of Austrian, German and Swiss artists: Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff
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With 2 to 3 issues a year, the members of the team publish their magazine around their personal encounters and interests.
Each issue presents around fifteen contributions in both texts and images. Artists, writers, scientists and specialists in all kind of fields are invited to contribute and intervene within the framework of a discreet and pragmatical layout, which has already been acknowledged by the London Design Museum in its exhibition Best European Design 2005.
The focus of the redactional activity is in the organisation and assembling of the contributions, including their own material like interviews, found footages or critiques, in order to create for each issue a strong and original unity. This is especially stressed by the use of a different font for each issue which gives it its title. The 300 black-and-white prints are completed with a color centerfold
poster by an internationally recognized artist (Elke Krystufek
, Daniel Pflumm, Ayse Erkmen, Amelie von Wulffen, Renée Green, etc.).
Apart from the publishing work, the team organizes release parties for most issues in diverse locations such as panoramic bars, a wax museum
, art project spaces and other magazine's redactional spaces, sometimes in combination with an artist's performance or exhibition, for example Gregor Hildebrandt exhibition/Künstlerhaus Passagengalerie Wien; Sven Åke Johansson performance/Büro Friedrich, Berlin; Max Krefeld concert/Basso Berlin.
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
by a group of Austrian, German and Swiss artists: Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff is a writer for Sports Illustrated and former owner of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League .He has written several books about basketball, among them Big Game, Small World , a look at basketball around the world...
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With 2 to 3 issues a year, the members of the team publish their magazine around their personal encounters and interests.
Each issue presents around fifteen contributions in both texts and images. Artists, writers, scientists and specialists in all kind of fields are invited to contribute and intervene within the framework of a discreet and pragmatical layout, which has already been acknowledged by the London Design Museum in its exhibition Best European Design 2005.
The focus of the redactional activity is in the organisation and assembling of the contributions, including their own material like interviews, found footages or critiques, in order to create for each issue a strong and original unity. This is especially stressed by the use of a different font for each issue which gives it its title. The 300 black-and-white prints are completed with a color centerfold
Centerfold
The centerfold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait...
poster by an internationally recognized artist (Elke Krystufek
Elke Krystufek
Elke Krystufek is an Austrian self portraitist working in a variety of media including: painting, sculpture, video and performance art.-Life:Krystufek studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Vienna in the early 1990s...
, Daniel Pflumm, Ayse Erkmen, Amelie von Wulffen, Renée Green, etc.).
Apart from the publishing work, the team organizes release parties for most issues in diverse locations such as panoramic bars, a wax museum
Wax museum
A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses....
, art project spaces and other magazine's redactional spaces, sometimes in combination with an artist's performance or exhibition, for example Gregor Hildebrandt exhibition/Künstlerhaus Passagengalerie Wien; Sven Åke Johansson performance/Büro Friedrich, Berlin; Max Krefeld concert/Basso Berlin.