CLOSING CEREMONY Magazine 03: Smile Issue [Feng Li Cover]
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The long-awaited third issue of Closing Ceremony Magazine, an art magazine by Shanghai publishing label Same Paper, has a theme of "Smile"!
(From the description in the Same Paper)
In general photography, photographers often ask their subjects to smile and try to capture a moment of temporary happiness. When we encounter difficulties, we tell ourselves to smile and pretend to be calm as if there is no problem.
However, we realize that the staged positivity of "smiling" does not necessarily solve the problem, and that we can no longer lie to ourselves. Especially in the dire situations in which each of us is in greater or lesser degrees, "smiling" is not necessarily an expression of joy, but an emotion with contradictory meanings, and sometimes even creepy. The phenomenon of "smiling" now has a more complex meaning.
Meanwhile, the economic decline has made it impossible to hide this melancholy even in the glittering and sophisticated commercial visuals. Artists are at a difficult crossroads, balancing their time-consuming creative endeavors with their expensive lifestyles. How do they find creative outlets to escape reality and deal with these difficulties under these economic constraints and limited working conditions? We would like to explore the more fundamental essence of creativity.
In this issue, we introduce stories created by artists and photographers from around the world based on the theme of "Smile," drawing on various perspectives and unique life experiences.
Featured Artist;
Chris Maggio (US)
David Brandon Geeting&Lina Sun Park (US)
Feng Li (CN)
Fish Zhang (CN)
Gaetano Pesce (IT)
Guillaume Blondiau (BE)
Lucas Blalock (US)
Masanao Hirayama (JP)
Max Siedentopf (UK)
Nigel Shafran (UK)
Karolina Wojtas (PT)
Paul Kooiker (NL)
Peter De Potter (BE)
PZtoday (TH)
Roe Ethridge (US)
248 pages / 23 x 30 x 1.7 cm / Softcover / Comes with a 20-page booklet "amazine - Smile is Worth a Million"
The title of the accompanying booklet, Amazine, is a combination of the words <amazon>, the company headquartered in the United States, and the English word <amazing>.
Featured Artist;
Alyssa Kazew
boihugo
fontanesi
Hu Die Gong Zhu
Jurgen Maelfeyt
Kohhei Kawatani
Kyle Berger
Nico Krijno
Minh Ngoc Nguyen
Pietro Cocco
So Mitsuya
Trevor Hernandez
Thomas Albdorf
Yituo
20 pages / 23 x 30 x 0.1 cm / soft cover
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