PREORDER SPRING SUMMER 2024: The LEVITY Issue
PREORDER SPRING SUMMER 2024: The LEVITY Issue
Who the hell can laugh in a time like this? Across 300+ pages, Autre’s Spring/Summer 2024 “Levity” issue explores our zeitgeist of antigravity. Why is humor, laughter, and irreverence important in a time of global crisis?
The legendary Juergen Teller photographs the nearly 90-year-old British painter Rose Wylie for the cover of Autre’s SS24 issue with a 34-page document of images by Teller from her cottage studio in Kent. Five additional covers include pop phenom Charli XCX interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and photographed by Davey Adésida; a Bottega Veneta special photographed by Parker Woods; a unique cover by artist Jeffrey Gibson, the first Native American artist to represent the US at the Venice Biennale; outsider-now-insider artist Otis Houston Jr., known for installing and performing his work in public along FDR Drive in Manhattan, photographed by Nick Sethi; and artistic director of Zegna, Alessandro Sartori, presents his personal photography with a cover story featuring Arte Povera legend Michelangelo Pistoletto.
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The issue opens with an interview of Lacanian philosopher Alenka Zupančič on the power of comedy to short-circuit and rewire our understanding of the world. Other features include Maurizio Cattelan, Stephen Shore interviewed by Roe Ethridge, BBC journalist and documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis in conversation with musician Natalie Mering, otherwise known as Weyes Blood. Fashion commentator Bliss Foster writes about the rediscovery of levity in fashion and fashion journalist Angelo Flaccavento explores the importance of frivolity.
Additional art editorial: An interview with Cartier’s in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen on their special olfactory collaboration at the San Francisco Symphony, Esben Weile Kjær on the spectacle of contemporary culture with Salzburger Kunstverein director Mirela Baciak, Bill Powers interviews Chicago imagist Gladys Nilsson, Polly Borland discusses her collaborations with Nick Cave and adult babies, and Sandra Mujinga discusses the power of Afrofuturism in her multifaceted practice. Also, MSCHF talks fakes and forgeries, Hannah Sage Kay on artist Zarina Nares, with an essay by Estelle Hoy on the comedy of finding an apartment in Berlin.
Additional fashion: Willy Chavarria in conversation with Idris Balogun of WINNIE NYC and a photo editorial by Boe Marion, Blommers/Schumm’s Students of Class 12B features tomorrow’s generation confronted by the mistakes of the past, Jaime Huidobro photographs a cast of young people in the warm California light, Vincent Ferrané plays with office culture in Paris, and Sergiy Barchuk shoots still lifes with this season’s accessories.
Size 9.65 x 11.85 inches. Offset Printing by KOPA (Lithuania). 336 Pages.
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