Autre’s Spring 2019 issue takes a fascinating twisting and turning ecological journey that explores artists’ relationship to our current fragile ecosystems and zeitgeist. We speak to contemporary artists, but we also interview experts in their respective fields about certain volatile Los Angeles phenomena like wildfire and police pursuits.

Tom Sachs and Vito Schnabel converse about surfing and the myth of Swiss neutrality. Los Angeles-based artist, Ariana Papademetropoulos visits the last living surrealist, Pedro Friedeberg in Mexico City. We interview legendary performance and video artist, Joan Jonas, and multidisciplinary composer and choreographer, Meredith Monk. Rising actor, Buddy Duress describes how to do voiceovers while incarcerated, and record producer, John Carroll Kirby talks about working with Solange and Karl Lagerfeld. We also spoke to photographer, Susan Ressler about her exploration of corporate Los Angeles in the 1970s. Isabelle Albuquerque plays dress up at the landmark Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Photographer CG Watkins takes us on a strange and violent cinematic journey through snowfall in London, and Joseph Kadow shoots a gorgeous fashion story at twilight outside of Berlin styled by the brilliant Toby Grimditch. Click here to preorder. The issue ends with a conversation between fashion designer, Rick Owens and photographer, Rick Castro about the underground queer community of 1980s and ‘90s LA.

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Esteemed Berlin-based stylist, Toby Grimditch art directs a fashion editorial shot by Joseph Kadow at Sanssouci Palace In Potsdam, Germany. It features emerging Dutch model, Aniek Klapwijk, wearing a full look from Y/Project, a label creatively helmed by Glenn Martens that combines “conceptual and inventive detailing with playful proportions and a witty take on historical references.”

176 pages. Size 10X12.2. Lithographic printing