CURA. #45
210 x 280 mm, 408 pages
Rome, Italy (English-language)
Publishers and editors-in-chief: Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin
Creative director: Andrea Baccin
Art director: Dan Solbach
A magazine is just one part of the CURA. platform, which also consists of a publishing house and an exhibition programme. All elements are open to novel interactions and experiments around contemporary art, curation and research—this means the magazine itself is ever open to experiments in design and formats.
Featuring interviews, artworks, visual editorials, and more, this latest issue is themed ‘Blackout’—‘a moment of rupture, riot and rebellion’, mirrored through the lens of contemporary art. Inside, you’ll discover a powerful archive of contemporary artists, who want to confront the issues of our time, urging us to question whether we are ‘now, living in the blackout of history?’
In the spotlight this issue: cover star and Russian activist Nadya Tolokonnikova’s anti-authoritarian post-punk protest art, Josephine Pryde on R.I.P Germain’s resistance to reductive categorisation, Banks Violette in conversation with Charlie Fox, and the simulated politics of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s virtual worlds.