PRESS RELEASE MI© #1
DECEMBER 09
UNDO-REDO IS PLEASED TO INVITE YOU to create the #1 edition of the review MADE IN ©HINA Thursday, DECEMBER 17th, 2009 STARTING 7 PM
AUTHORS
CONCEPT
Cecilia Braschi Jay Batlle Claude Cadi Viola Ferby Manuele Fior Fabrizio Gruppini Eric Mitchell E. Sferruzza Moszkowicz Marino Neri Filip Pagowski Massimo Polvara Undo-Redo Goran Vejvoda Jada Vogt Jocko Weyland
Following the success of the #0 edition of FAIRE-DE FAIRE last June, Undo-Redo will be publishing the new opus # 1 of the review MADE IN ©HINA on 17 December. A thematic number built around the number 1, symbol of unity and primacy among multiples, MI© invites you to come to its “magazine factory” to compose your own edition of original covers. The performance will end with the auction of this unique edition of original covers.
“FAIRE-DE FAIRE” show - June 18, 2009
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PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR
THE MAGAZINE FACTORY
june 2009 #0 - “FAIRE-deFAIRE” (“ DO-UNDO”)
So, why produce a magazine in the form of a “cover” factory? To give a performative and plastic form to the paradox of a product seeking to be both unique and infinitely reproducible.
Undo-Redo Studio Paris DECEMBER 2009 #1 - “UN” (“NUMBER ONE “)
Undo-Redo Studio Paris MarCH 2010 #2 - “COULEUR” (“COLOR”)
To respond to this challenge, MI© has decided to produce a magazine consisting solely of covers. These “covers” are merely component parts to be assembled in no hierarchical order. The product’s originality is therefore defined by the personal choice of those who compose it and gave it their unique personal imprint.
Salon du Dessin Contemporain (Contemporary Drawing Fair) Paris
THE UNIQUE EDITION
MaY 2010 #3 - “reclame” (“ADS”)
Although the MI© factory’s “original multiple” eludes the logic of the market economy, its “authentic” matrix paradoxically acquires a commercial value as a “unique original”.
Festival International de l’Affiche et du Graphisme (International poster & graphic design festival of Chaumont) Chaumont - France OctobER 2010 #4 - “ insomnie “ (“Insomnia”)
Nuit Blanche Paris ( 4 PUBLICATIONS / YEAR )
MI© wanted to take this process to its logical conclusion by putting the original matrix of the review up for auction at the symbolic starting price of 1 euro.
MADE IN CHINA MI©, created in 2009, is a collective design and illustration review edited by UNDO-REDO. It brings together creative people from all horizons to propose an uninhibited approach to the creation of our time, constantly in mutation and ahead of itself. MI© is a thematic magazine organised around a performance. Each publication explores a possible format, a proposal, in whose interpretation spectators can take part. Each number of MI© can be viewed and downloaded on the website. www.madeinchinarevue.com MADE IN ©HINA - THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE WITH NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL
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authors Cecilia Braschi born in Rome, living in Paris and dreaming of more countries, Cecilia Braschi is an art historian. She has dedicated most of her research on abstract art movements after Word War II, in Europe and Latin America. At present she is researcher at the Giacometti Foundation in Paris, and she’s the author of several articles and essays published in art magazines and catalogues. Jay Batlle was born in 1976. He lives and works in New York and in the south of France. Recent exhibitions : Restaurant, Restaurant, Nyehaus Gallery, NY (forthcoming), Restaurant, Restaurant and Last minute reservations, AFP Gallery, NY (2009), Joie de vivre, Jolie Restaurant, NY The « myways » readings, at Whitney Museum, NY (2007). Claude Cadi born in 1978, lives and works in Berlin. Commissioned illustrator represented by Agent002 since 2001. As comix author, take part in collective works by Misma, l’Employé du moi & Grand Papier, published Boris vol1 at Misma in 2008 and selfpublished some thirty books. Viola Ferby born amongst the trees in the Swedish forest. Came to Paris for graphic design, illustration and textile prints, and founded The Viola Institute. Manuele Fior was born in Cesena, Italy. Studied architecture in Venice, then he left for Berlin, Oslo and Paris where he actually lives. Comics author and illustrator, he collabores with several international magazines. He has published 4 graphic novels : Les gens le dimanche, Icarus, 5000 kilomètres par seconde (Atrabile 2004, 2006, 2009), Mademoiselle Else (Delcourt 2009). Fabrizio Gruppini was born in Sassuolo, Italy, in 1977. He works as photographer and architect in his proper agency, .spazioBianco, in Modena. Eric Mitchell was born in Paris. Moving to Manhattan in 1974 he was one of the founders of the artist collective ‘Colab’ and set up The New Cinema in St Mark’s Place. As a film director his works included The Way It Is, introduced to the screen such actors as Steve Buscemi and a Vincent Gallo, who also did the original soundtrack. His films have been shown at MoMA, MoCA, London’s ICA, the Centre Pompidou and illegally projected on a sheet on the Croisette at the Cannes festival. As a visual artist he worked for many years publishing his ‘spot’ sketches in The New Yorker, he has exhibited as part of ‘The Batman Show’ held at Robin Winters’ SoHo loft and at the Mitchell Algus Gallery NY. E. Sferruzza Moszkowicz was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy. From several years he begins to have collaborations in the Fashion Industry as exclusive artist. He published on Italian Renaissance Vol.2 - presented this year at the Frankfurt Buch Messe, D(X)I Magazine (Spain), Fashionize 2 - ‘The’ International Fashion’s Illustrators Book, BLACK! Coconino Press, Polystirene (France), FeFè Project Magazine, MAH!GAZINE (Italy).
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authors Marino Neri is a comics author, illustrator and painter. He has been awarded in international comics competitions. In 2008 his first graphic novel, “Les Roi des fleuves” (“The King of rivers”) is published by Kappa Edizioni and Atrabile. His work has been presented in several magazines including Rolling Stone, Canicola and Arkitip. Filip Pagowski New York based graphic artist. Studied painting, illustration and poster design (under professor Henryk Tomaszewski) at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Works for a multitude of clients in the US, Canada, France, Japan and Poland. Clients include : The New Yorker, Comme des Garçons, Talk magazine, Saks 5th Avenue, Le Monde, Travel+Leisure, The New York Times, Visionaire, Random House, Diane von Furstenberg… Massimo Polvara is a graphic designer, illustrator and art director. Italian by birth, Parisian by adoption, he referes to himself as a “citizen of the world”. Sensitive to elegance, curious about life, he works on image projects going from illustration to advertising including calligraphy, photography and etching. Vanessa Theodoropoulou is interested in art. Author of a Phd on the International Situationnist, she spends her time between her time doing research on art after the WWII, the avant-gardes and other conceptual identities (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) and her art critic activities (Kathimerini, kaput.gr, artpress). Undo-Redo is a Paris-based creative studio leaded by a duo of graphic designers, Nicola Aguzzi and Teresa Gasperutti. They work for clients in the public, cultural and luxury sectors. Goran Vejvoda is a musician and visual artist dealing with modularity and mainly working in sound-related areas. His concerns are a span across various domains including: psychoacoustic phenomena, silence, the origin and disappearance of sounds, their invisibles traces, their socio-political implications, non-emotional listening, the state of electro-acoustic music, future sounds, the process and the final product, the compression generation, the headphones culture, broadcasting... Jada Vogt was born and earnestly raised in the «Great North», otherwise known as Minnesota. She lives in New York City. Works as an artist, designer, illustrator, photographer, prop stylist, royalist and hyperbolist. She also unbends with a small chubby polar bear who couples her life on the palm of his pad. Jocko Weyland is the author of The Answer is Never - A Skateboarder’s History of the World (Grove Press, 2002) and has written for Thrasher, The New York Times, Cabinet and other publications. He is the creator of Elk magazine, books and gallery, an editor-at-large for Open City magazine, and his artwork has been exhibited at KS Art and Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the MU Foundation in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Visit MADE IN ©CHINA on Internet www.madeinchinarevue.com Editorial Direction : Nicola Aguzzi, Cecilia Braschi, Teresa Gasperutti, Vanessa Theodoropoulou Art Direction : UNDO-REDO Authors : Cecilia Braschi, Jay Batlle, Claude Cadi, Viola Ferby, Manuele Fior, Fabrizio Gruppini, Eric Mitchell, E. Sferruzza Moszkowicz, Marino Neri, Filip Pagowski, Massimo Polvara, Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Undo-Redo, Goran Vejvoda, Jada Vogt, Jocko Weyland Publisher :
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