Archizines  + Arch-Art! Books

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Opening Reception: April 17, 2012, 7 PM - 9 PM

Archizines                                            Arch-Art! Books

April 18th-June 9th                              May 5th-June 9th

Curated by Elias Redstone                    Curated by Adam O'Reilly

A double exhibition with 80 magazines, 80 feet of books and other printed matters.

Designed by

(Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King and Ryan Neiheiser) 

Archizines + Arch-Art! Books is a double exhibition consisting of Archizines curated by Elias Redstone (April 18 - June 9, 2012) and Arch-Art! Books, curated by Adam O'Reilly for Printed Matter, Inc. ( May 5 - June 9, 2012) that brings to the table a hypothesis: printed matter matters . Consisting of an eclectic selection of new independent and alternative magazines, fanzines and journals from around the world (that can be read as a contemporary response to the Clip Stamp Fold exhibition curated by Beatriz Colomina at Storefront in 2007, which explored the little magazines phenomenon in the 60’s and 70’s), together with a selection of contemporary artist books with architecture at the center, the exhibition is a temporary library for contemporary approaches to architecture from different disciplinary origins and degrees of expertise.

Archizines was recently launched by Elias Redstone as a research project to celebrate and promote the resurgence of independent and alternative publishing (www.archizines.com), and an exhibition was initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association School of Architecture in November 2011. Following presentations in London, Milan and Barcelona, Archizines makes its American debut at Storefront with a bespoke design by  

(Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King, Ryan Neiheiser) that draws inspiration from the quintessential New York model of publication display - the newstand - and turns it on its side.  Instead of a vertical, 2-dimensional billboard, the show offers a horizontal, 3-dimensional field of objects: 80 architecture publications displayed on delicate metal rods, which sprout from the floor. The exhibition evacuates all other content from the space, creating an information vacuum that focuses the visitor's attention on the objects themselves : 80 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over 20 countries that provide new platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture.  

Publications in Archizines include: 90x60, America Deserta Revisted, Another Pamphlet, Apartamento, Archinect News Digest, Archphoto2.0,  Beyond, Block, Boundaries, Bracket, Camenzind, Candide, City as Material, Civic City Cahier, Clog, Club Donny, Conditions, Cornell Journal of Architecture, Criticat, derive, Ein Magazin über Orte, engawa, Evil People in Modern Homes in Popular Films, face b, Foreign Architects Switzerland, Fresh Meat, Friendly Fire, Generalist, Horizonte, Index, Journal Illustratif, Junk Jet, Kerb, Le Journal Spéciale’Z, Log, MAP, Mark, MAS Context, matzine, Maximum Maxim MMX, Megawords, mono.kultur, Monu, New City Reader, New Geographies, no now, Noz 04, OASE, One:Twelve, Onsite, P.E.A.R., Pablo Internacional, PIDGIN, PIN-UP, PISEAGRAMA: Periodic Public Space, PLAT, PLOT, Pollen, Praxis, Preston is my Paris, Public Library, Sami huksendaidda, San Rocco, Scapegoat, scopio, SOILED, SPAM, Studio, The Modernist, The Unlimited Edition, The Weather Ring, Thresholds, TOO MUCH, Touching Architecture, Trans, UP, UR, Volume, What About It?  

Arch-Art! Books   presents a selection of artists’ books culled from Printed Matter, Inc.’s current catalog and presents them as a medium through which architecture might be photographically and representationally explored. Each book is an flâneur's response to the urban environment, documenting the social patina and environmental decay left on architectural space. The   design presents the books on linear displays, which cuts through and displace the field of existing Archizines publications.

Together, the complementary shows form an exhibition of exchange and dialog; mining the overlap and friction found in the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architecture and art publishing from around the world.

The exhibition also includes additional printed material (a graphic façade, newsprint, and catalogue) designed by Benjamin Critton that bring together ideas presented in each exhibition.

In conjunction with the presentation of Archizines, Storefront will host a 2-day symposium on publishing practices as part of its Manifesto Series. For more information, click here.

Support for Archizines is provided by Arquine, Architectural Record/McGraw-Hill Construction, DOMUS, eVolo, and Susan Szenasy, Metropolis, leaders in print publication interested in supporting the next generation of publications because "printed matter matters." (Publications interested in supporting this exhibition and joining this list of contributors should contact km@storefrontnews.org)

Exhibition: February 29 – April 6, 2012

Opening Reception: February 28, 2012, 7 PM - 9 PM

Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City by Lan Tuazon presents sculptures, drawings and prints that discuss how history, the law and class structures are written on the physical environment. Surrealist in concept, Tuazon takes real/existing parts of the built environment -- including buildings, lots, and monuments – and creates a new reality against the repressive logic of property. The exhibition includes the presentation of two new works: Architectures of Defense and New York City Bar Graph, which paired with Tuazon’s Army Park and Parking Lot Landscape, present the city disassembled into parts and functions unveiling taxonomies of power reordered into new composite figures that render visible what reality has ceased to distinguish.  

Isolating how space is demarcated, Architectures of Defense is made with concentric and cascading layers of wrought iron fences that demonstrate ornaments of power and property.  The demarcating lines that create spaces of difference, in and out, here and there, is essentially what characterizes an exclusionary definition of an “us” and “them.” New York City Bar Graph is a taxonomy of over 120 models of notable skyscrapers categorized by function: civic, corporate, hotel, luxury residence, public housing & utilities, media, office, and world banks.  Arranged in bar graph shelves, the piece takes stock in what types of structures are built in NYC to assess the scale and quantity of prioritized functions. Taking order as a primary mode of meaning and visualizing how current land use can be re-conceived as a raw material landscape Parking Lot Landmass is an island and topographical landscape made from all existing parking lots in the city. Parking Lot Landscape is accompanied by four woodblock print studies showing the arrangement of unmarked territories of the island.  With similar organizational intent, Army Park is an ink drawing of a public park proposal that brings together statues of heroes on horseback that exist throughout Manhattan, uniting the figures into a singular army placed in front of and charging towards the Downtown Civic Center.

About the Artist

Lan Tuazon, b. 1976 in the Philippine Islands, lives and works in New York whether she likes it or not.  She is Lan Tuazon twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

For more information, visit www.lantuazon.com