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EDITOR IN CHIEF MADALENA RUGERONI Rum, consedis de mo omnias quuntis autem rerum adigeni hilicti anihit ped qui omnit hario. Hentem everchi lignatio enitiore conseque omni voluptate dolor a pellitation et quae ea sequam, velecuptatem. EDITORIAL EDITOR LUKE CRISEL Rum, consedis de mo omnias quuntis autem rerum adigeni hilicti anihit ped qui omnit hario. Hentem everchi lignatio enitiore conseque omni voluptate dolor a pellitation et quae ea sequam, velecuptatem. EXICUTIVE EDITOR MARK TWAIN Rum, consedis de mo omnias quuntis autem rerum adigeni hilicti anihit ped qui omnit hario. Hentem everchi lignatio enitiore conseque omni voluptate dolor a pellitation et quae ea sequam, velecuptatem. FASHION DIRECTOR DANIELA SANTIAGO Rum, consedis de mo omnias quuntis autem rerum adigeni hilicti anihit ped qui omnit hario. Hentem everchi lignatio enitiore conseque omni voluptate dolor a pellitation et quae ea sequam, velecuptatem.

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Photographer

MATHWS AIRES The proposal of my project is simple: 365 images in 365 days. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my eye for people, fashion, culinary, places, arts, beauty. The intention is to post one image per day.

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DONA LOLA

THE TABLE

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PHOTOGRAPHER VS. ARTIST Strong and thought provocking pictures is what makes the project House of Mathws famous. In 2010, the photographer and art director Renan Matheus Aires, or Mathws Aires, as he signed his work, opened the doors of the House of Mathws to the world. House of Mathws is an artistic experimental platform. At the time when the project began, Mathws posted a photo a day, in total 365 images at the end of the year. The next year, Mathws brought a fashion editorial per month. There were 12 editorials in 12 months.

Jonathan Stewart: When did you start your career as a photographer and why? Mathws Aires: Since I can remember, I always had a preference for visual things. At school I was always better at visual tasks. But it was in a advertising university that I was started to undertand what area should I follow and the world of fashion soon started to become more familiar and cativating . I then realized that photography, more precisely, fashion photography, was my passion. Fashion, which is a form of visual communication, needs photography to communicate. It’s very complex, it is science and industry. omething that still involves art and lifestyle, things that I also love. Jonathan Stewart: Even though your passion is fashion, do you see yourself photographing something else? Mathws Aires: I already photographed food, because I have a client that works for the gastronomic industry... Scientific photography is an amazing thing! Microscopic images, the action of nature, animals ... The most interesting Instagram I follow is the NatGeo, sometimes I imagine myself doing those inspiring images in the outside world ... Maybe one day (laughs). Jonathan Stewart: What is the concept behind the “Some Kind of Mod” project? Mathws Aires: Monochromatic, cool, sixties. Well

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done, hair done, boots tied, perfum set. Referring to those who lived the post-war era and had money to spend on themselves. But all this now and among the concrete that makes Sao Paulo. Jonathan Stewart: What about the other ones, “Fantastisch” and “Dona Lola?” Mathws Aires: The Fantastisch project is all about make up and lights. Dona Lola is just an awesome dog. It jumps, It is famous and almost gives autographs. It is really funny, It scratched my legs... I was autographed. The very cute Lolla. Jonathan Stewart: When you start photographing, what do you like best? Mathws Aires: Comfortable clothes for the battle and a good responsible team, wa team that knows where it starts and where it ends the function of each member. Let me also say that I love a good (and experimental) light, love a model with the ability to reinvent, something really rare! And I also love a good budget, because everyone does (laughs). Jonathan Stewart: Among many photos you’ve shot, which was the shooting tou liked the most, one that touched you the most? Mathws Aires: Unfortuneteley, that picture has never happened yet... Maybe one day. I’m sure one day there will be a photograph like that.

REFLECTION

AGORA

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THE BEAUTY on the surface The saturated hues and gilded accent of fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich beaty pallete are brought to life by artist Marylin Minter. 16

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Wynwood Breathing Life and Art, Into a Downtrodden Neighborhood

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"WYNWOOD IS NOW THE HOT SPOT IN MIAMI"

irst there was the woman who sat down in the middle of the gallery and spilled her drink on the floor. Then there was another woman who snuck into the gallery’s parking garage, her pants halfway pulled down, desperately looking for a bathroom. But what made Pan American Art Projects Director Janda Wetherington decide to stop participating in Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walks was when someone spilled wine onto a $15,000 painting, then bailed before anyone noticed. “By that point, we had already stopped offering wine or water to people who came 26

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into the gallery, and we even had someone guarding the door to make sure no one brought any food or drink inside,” Wetherington said. But even that tactic failed. “That’s when we started opening earlier in the afternoon and close by 8 p.m. at the latest.” The monthly art walks, which are held the second Saturday of each month, draw thousands of young people and usually wind up as boisterous block parties On Tuesday, ARTtuesdays will present a panel discussion titled “What’s Next for theWynwood Art Galleries?” in CoraL gables to explore whether the

neighborhood’s increasingly bustling nightlife, combined with the large number of empty warehouse spaces and a lack of a geographical center, may have a negative impact on the galleries. “Wynwood now has an international profile,” says Helen Kohen, the art historian and critic who will moderate the panel. “It’s been written about a lot. Miami finally has developed a viable arts center. Wynwood area is growing and Midtown Miami is not the hot spot for the latins, europeans and even the local miami people. It is setting a trend.”

1. bunny man

never had any intention of doing a weird, cliche, nude project. There’s so many of those, like everywhere you look, ‘like naked chick on the train tracks’, it’s sort of a photographer joke, and I knew putting a furry mask on a person and having them run around naked, it’s been done. There’s nothing new about that and fresh. So it would have never come into my mind in the past. I was shooting for Cosmo and some of the advertising for magazines and shooting the lines of clothing designers. I got very bored and burnt out. One day I was sitting with my fashion friends. No one’s really a friend in that world, and they were mocking a homeless person. I began to wonder, what happened to me? I was hanging out with the “It” crowd, going to black tie events, but it had nothing to do with me as 27

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"I just got up and told everybody to fuck off!"

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a person. I just got up and told everybody to fuck off! After that I took a road trip, got on the road, and I find this rabbit head in a little town called Krum, Texas. In a costume store, for fifty bucks, there was this raggedy, nasty, cigarette burned, smelly, rabbit head, and I was like ‘for fifty bucks, I can definitely do something with this!’ So I brought it home, about a month later, and a friend of mine a model, named Lily Wang and I were getting a little drunk, running around doing stupid stuff. She threw the rabbit head on, and stripped off her clothes and started running around the house naked. I thought ‘this is hilarious!’ So Lily kind of created that moment of concept. I took a few camera photos and the other people who saw them wanted to be the next bunny. That is how everything started. 29

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2. pETER TUNNEY

eter Tunney is perhaps the most positive person on the planet. The New Yorkbased art world legend, whose Miami studio doubles as a de facto emporium in the middle of the ever-popular Wynwood Walls, is one of those rare breeds who not only sees the forest and the trees, he sees both as spectacular signs of an increasingly robust reason for being. To Tunney, doom and gloom is for the half-empty set, and he’s all about that glass being full. So it’s something of a surprise to find that Tunney’s most recent 30

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series involves skulls. The series, suitably deemed “The Skull Sessions” and opening at New York’s Clic Gallery on Wednesday and Thursday, is laden with what’s usually considered a symbol of death. In Tunney’s case though the skull is about nothing if not life. Unlike the so-called tortured artist,

Tunney looks at things for what good they can do or mean or say. If an image can’t provide any of that, well, it’s off to the next image. For Tunney though, there doesn’t seem to be an image in the world that he can’t skew forward. An electric chair (preferably Warholian), a grisly New York Post headline, an

old license plate, a choice detail from a contemporary’s work, there are literally thousands of images he uses to back up his now trademark, bright-eyed sloganeering. The skulls though are different. They are front and center and doubled and tripled. They are the focus. And like everything Tunney focuses in on, they’ve got a past -- and a story. Here that past -- and that story -dates back to his tenure in Africa with the notorious Peter Beard. “Peter Tunney is somehow different, he has the capability to transform everything in an optimist point of view. He his an artist from the inside out.”

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? Apparently, I'm now an WHAT DO YOU DO TO FEEL ALIVE? A few things of course. Lots of things make me feel alive. Lately, the older I get it’s the little things. I had a berry in my mouth this morning and I waited and slowly crushed it in my teeth and let the blackberry juice explode in my mouth. I felt alive right there. The truth is the experience of being alive is in the eating of a berry… I like to jump in the sea. I like to smoke a cigar and I do like making art. I like the process of making art. It makes me feel like I’m getting somewhere. A LESSON YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR FATHER? Tell the truth. I don’t think my dad ever told a lie. Pretty amazing when you think about it. That is probably why I admire him so much. WHAT’S THE MOST BEATIFUL THING YOU SAW TODAY? Well my breakfast was gorgeous. I went out to see some old friends I haven’t seen in a while. You know Mark Twain when he was going west was sitting one morning on the footsteps of some mining town porch he stopped along the way and said, “There’s nothing better one can do than have ham and eggs while looking onto these incredible vistas.” – and I truly feel that. What else could you ever want?

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WHAT’S THE ONE THING YOU WOULDN’T WANT ANYONE TO TAKE AWAY FROM YOU? My vision, as in eyesight, not wisdom. WHAT’S A THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO NEVER HAVE AGAIN? “How do I get out of here?” IF YOU COULD BECOME AN INAMIMATE OBJECT WHAT WOULD IT BE? All the options suck given the alternative of being alive…Maybe I’d like to be a flag. WHEN DO YOU FEEL MOST LOVED? You know to be honest I think it’s when I’ve finally gotten around to loving myself. There can be a lot of external love coming at you, but you can feel like a piece of shit and you’re not really receiving it. It’s a really hard thing to look into the mirror and stare deeply into your own eyes and say “I love you.” WHAT’S THE ADVICE YOU GIVE TO YOUNG ARTISTS? Number one on the list of qualities you need: ability to suffer. You have to have the ability to get through it. That’s the admissions ticket. It will not be easy. You have to be so strong in what you’re doing. 31

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THE PROBLEM WITH PAINTINGS

Urs Fisher

THE MEAT

THE CARROT

THE MELON

CREATOR OR DESTROYER? A mango, meat and a carrot are just a few of the surreal masks devised by Urs Fischer. The Problem with Paintings, from the upcoming fourth issue of the biannual magazine Garage. Known for confronting our notions of identity and celebrity in works such as Problem Paintings, where images of Hollywood icons are obscured with foods and household objects, here the Zurich-born artist continues the theme by playfully casting real-life subjects to interact with their fruit and vegetable disguises.

Neville Wakefield: Are you trying to erase the distinction between formal artwork and work that deals with pop culture? I’m thinking about your series of Problem Paintings. Are they mash-ups of pop culture and everyday objects? Urs Fischer: For the Garage project we tried to see how it would be if you didn’t print it, if you juxtaposed these things in real life. So they’re all photos of things in real life—a kind of homemade version, where you lay actual eggs on a face and then photograph it. Neville Wakefield:: What’s the logic of the juxtaposition? Is it like the surrealists’ idea of the sewing machine and the umbrella, only here the chance encounter is between, say, a pickle and a Hollywood star? Urs Fischer: It’s different. There are usually two photos—not in this magazine, but in other ones I’ve made. It’s basically a collage, a juxtaposition. The funny thing is that fruits are more universal than movie stars. Neville Wakefield:: People want to recognize the Hollywood side of it, not the fruit side of it. But everyone knows a kiwi, not everyone knows Rita Hayworth. Urs Fischer: You have to put something that they want to see behind. Most of the people in these paintings are from old black-and-white movie stills that I’ve really worked on. The kids have no clue who these people are. Zero. They don’t even know Kirk Douglas. 36

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Neville Wakefield:: What is the problem in the Problem Paintings? Urs Fischer: It’s just funny. It’s just a name. Any problem functions because it occupies the center of your existence, no? It obstructs. Neville Wakefield:: And what’s the “painting” side? There isn’t much paint either, in the traditional way. Urs Fischer: But who cares about the traditional way? Problems are omnipresent in everyone’s life; they are everything from the best motor to do something to the biggest obstructer. Problems are amazing. Neville Wakefield: Are you trying to erase the distinction between formal artwork and work that deals with pop culture? I’m thinking about your series of Problem Paintings. Urs Fischer: For the Garage project we tried to see how it would be if you didn’t print it, if you juxtaposed these things in real life. So they’re all photos of things in real life—a kind of home Neville Wakefield:: What is the problem in the Problem Paintings? Urs Fischer: It’s just funny. It’s just a name I gave. I simply liked it, no special reason. Any problem functions because it occupies the center of your existence, no?

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