Number 12 – The Bridge Between issue

Highlights include

DOCUMENT 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,





Ordering and Subscriptions


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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top row - Zeitz Museum/El Anatsui installation Jonathan Greet, Michael Rother live, Oliver Lowenstein, Middle row Karak raku tile firing, Hanno Mackowitz, Alexis Peskine, Jonathan Greet, Katherine Rose paper-work, Katherine Rose, Bottom photo Julia Lohmann seaweed - Petr Krejci