Spike #86
216 x 280 mm, 160 pages
Vienna, Austria & Berlin, Germany (English-language)
Quarterly
Published since 2004
Editor-in-chief: Rita Vitorelli
Art direction: Yvonne Zmarsly
Spike is a themed art magazine; this issue is titled ‘Salad Days’—a Shakespearean idiom concerning youthful naïveté and idealism.
‘You might not have heard: the kids are alright. (…) Swinging between genders and genres, misery and euphoria, young people are modelling the at-onceness our very confused present demands. Something quantum, a little haunted, still groping after the unexpected.’
Inside: video and installation artist Valentina Triet presents a curated selection of cross-disciplinary artworks that have influenced her own creative practice; curator Gloria Hasnay pays homage to the installation art of Julie Becker, praising her illumination of the flimsy drywalls that uphold the chimera of the American dream; Aodhan Madden introduces five contemporary art world nepo babies; Kieran Press-Reynolds dissects the ‘Slopgeneration’; and, Sebastjan Brank explores the defiant ‘rudeness’ and social realism of Turner Prize nominee Rene Matić’s photographs.
On the Journal, about an earlier issue:
‘I love Spike magazine. The quarterly art magazine has been published since 2004 by artist Rita Vitorelli and has just reached its 50th issue. It follows an idiosyncratic editorial direction – part of its strength is its refusal to follow the crowd, and the art mag shelf is a crammed one. It’s not easy to stand out, but Spike’s mix of written and visual essays brings a more curatorial than editorial approach. And the main reason it stands out is its design.’
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