Crash #106
280 x 400 mm, 228 pages
Paris, France (English-language)
Biannual
Editor in chief and creative director: Armelle Leturcq
Design: Manon Pigeon
What began in the 1990s as a radical art magazine out of France, has since become the revered large-format art biannual publication Crash. The goal was to break down the boundaries of the art world, championing non-career artists and personalities with no agenda other than to breach reality.
Themed ‘New Horizons’, the latest issue promotes artists—both past and present—whose work offers a visionary blueprint for an alternative and more optimistic future. In an era burdened by environmental and political uncertainty, Crash editor Armelle Leturcq asserts that ‘it is the beauty that will allow us to open up new horizons and prevent us from believing that we can’t get out of this world’.
Amongst those featured are the French actress, director, playwright and all-round powerhouse Camille Dagen, whose production company ‘Animal Architecte’ is an experimental playground for boundary-pushing performance; Californian print artist and paragon of post-punk iconography Raymond Pettibon; ‘House of Guinness’ lead Emily Fairn; Norwegian-Nigerian collage artist Frida Orupabo; cult American street photographer Bruce Gilden; plus, two double page spreads from a 1998 and 1999 edition of Crash Magazine, paying tribute to France’s ‘Radio FG’.