VOLUME 3, number 2
FROM the editor
A journey may seem full of unpredicted happenstances, setbacks that call for improvisations but also moments of repose. The same can be said about existential circumstances that subject an individual to chances and factors beyond free will: where someone is born, how politics play out and which choices are at hand. A matter of coincidences. Who could have foreseen, for instance, that Robert Rauschenberg’s decision in 1960s New York to print from an imperfect matrix with an accidental crack would go on to spark creative impulses on the other side of Iron Curtain; that one factory worker’s compulsion to blur the line between painting and printmaking would influence an entire generation of artists raised under a regime that only tolerated Socialist Realist style; or that the Iron Curtain was not as sealed as initially designed, in that a number of ideas and artists could pass through. Still, many were barred on the inside, some also on the outside. Read more
Volume 3, Number 2
Published in October 2017
76 pages, perfect bound, digital pdf