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Number 12 – The Bridge Between issue
Highlights includeDOCUMENT TWO – FDR12’s Book within a Book themed section October’s African Spring - a fifty plus page exploration of the work of Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui, the influence of the pioneering London October Gallery, and their roster of Global African artists, including LR Vandy, Alexis Peskine and Zana Masumbua. Materialise - Fourth Door Review’s new materials, making and materiality focused section. Paper/Clay/Seaweed – for its first foray, Materialise highlights paper, clay, and seaweed. I - Folding paper maker-artist, Kath Rose, Karak: Vorarlberg’s new craft generation of raku tile-makers, British-Nigerian Ranti Bam’s plays with clay and video, plus Daniela Zimmermann on the Philosophy of the Jug. II - Seaweed Bioneers and Believers – a second in-depth themed section. Seaweed designer Julia Lohmann, the pan-European Seaweed Biodesign scene, and Denmark’s Låesø island Eelgrass biomaterials revolution. Sound and Vision – Michael Rother: in-depth interview with seminal German band, Neu! founder, his solo artist career, and as Conny Plank, Cluster and Harmonia collaborator. Sound-artist David Rothenberg and the Secret Sounds of Ponds. Wordwatch - book reviews including David George Haskell’s Sounds Wild and Broken, Rowland Keable on the first Hassan Fathy monograph, On Slowness by Lutz Koepnik and Elvia Wilk’s Death by Landscape, |
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Fourth Door Review 12 – October 2024, 192 pages
Full Contents
ArtScapes
ArtScapes I - Ragna Róbertsdóttir – Iceland’s artist of fire and molten magma by Oliver Lowenstein
ArtScapes II – El Anatsui, October Gallery and its Global African artist networks – Document Two: A special Book within a Book section
El Anatsui - In-depth feature with one of Africa’s highest profile artists – by Neil Thomson
Emergent October - from El Anatsui to LR Vandy: The October Gallery and Artists of Global Africa – by Chris Spring
Benchmarks – El Anatsui’s hi tech and hands on new works – by Oliver Lowenstein
El Anatsui’s wood sculpture work – by Yukiya Kawaguchi
October & Africa past to present – by October Gallery’s creative director - by Elisabeth Lalouschek
How October’s Gallery African Tranvangarde redefined the avant-garde future – by Oliver Lowenstein
Makeshift/Middleground I
The Paper Folding Art of Katherine Rose – by Jonathan Rose
Julia Lohmann – revolution in seaweed Biodesign - by Oliver Lowenstein
Karak: Vorarlberg’s raku tile makers - by Oliver Lowenstein
Middleground/Materialise II: Seaweed, Clay, Paper Seaweed –
Design Bioneers surf the Blue World - by Oliver Lowenstein
Denmark’s Seaweed Island: Laesø - by Oliver Lowenstein
Seaweed’s Blue Wave comes ashore - by Oliver Lowenstein
Ranti Bam’s video claywork by Oliver Lowenstein
Paperback’s Story - by Oliver Lowenstein
Where are you Local? Book art without borders - by Oliver Lowenstein
Brighton’s Elms – surviving and thriving by Alister Peters
Margins of Music
Michael Rother: from Motorik to Metronome – by Oliver Lowenstein
Pond Life – David Rothenberg’s underwater concertos for ponds
Digitalis
De War – Holland, home of the first grassroots Fab Lab – by Diana Wildschut and Harmen Zijp
Biotechnology and the Blue Flower – by Anna Demutriu and Alex May
Data Driven – Adam Niemann on Augmented Reality
Dreams of Consciousness (DoC)
Sensing the Body: Rosalyn Driscoll on the senses in the arts
Crafting a Philosophy of the Jug – by Daniela Zimmermann
Wordwatch
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
Death By Landscape by Elvia Wilk – reviewed by Bryony Bodimeade
On Slowness by Lutz Koepnik – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
Time Song by Julia Blackburn – reviewed by Peter Cole
Hassan Fathy: Earth and Utopia by Viola Bertini and Salma Samar Damluji – reviewed by Rowland Keable
Building with Fire by Ray Meeker – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tazanaki– Re-read by Oliver Lowenstein
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