Carrying the theme of Russia – recently I’ve found something interesting in my mailbox. I know, my long holiday is not an excuse for missing it but I haven’t been interested in Russian gloss since the legendary OM magazine closing. I guess this one is kind of revival of intellectual glossy magazine. Anyway I already love it because it’s NOT TAVI on the cover.
This issue of Black Square magazine has two covers. One of them features Vogue Russia editor-in-chief Alena Doletskaya, on the second – a 13-years-old model whose name is not yet known to anyone, and whose future is as undetermined as that of Russia. The same young model played the central part in the conceptual project by the artist Pavel Pepperstein, who opens the issue and whose words appear on both covers. The BS winter issue features his rap manifesto against contemporary art that had been written for the Russian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Alena Doletskaya, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Vogue, became the central character of a fashion shoot during the Paris Fashion Week and told Black Square about the aim of her life which does not exist, about an injection of high-caliber taste and about expensive things sometimes getting cheap.
Reading the preview: “Sergei Loban, the author of the legendary Dust movie, talks with Valeriya Gai Germanika about the end of art, about living in a cooperative and about his new project. Sergei Bratkov, the Man with a Hasselblad Camera and a live classic of the new photography, on the eve of his large exhibition at PinchukArtCentre tells the BS readers about paratroopers, waste tailings, the Doomsday and other milestones in his artistic career. Andrei Kuzkin, once an “normal man”, now an artist of the new generation of Moscow’s art scene, discourses upon art being unable to change the world and his personal attempts to disprove that. The French artist Cyprien Gaillard showed BS his new work about unfulfilled modernist dream of bestowing the world with perfect architectural forms. Аgnia Kuznetsova, the young actress who played in Cargo 200 and Everybody Dies But Me, answers the questions of Karl Marx’s daughters, In Actor’s Studio TV program and a 1985 issue of Smash Hits magazine“.
By the way, I was pleasantly surprised that Black Square’s magazine co-editor is Anzor Kankulov who used to be an editor-in-chef of my loved OM magazine. Good luck, guys!
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[...] by Karl Schoendorfer / Rex Features. A well-known personality on the Russian pop scene since the …Black Square Magazine Winter 09-10 Issue | Fashion CommunicationCarrying the theme of Russia – recently I've found something interesting in my mailbox. I know, my [...]
valeriya added these pithy words on Mar 30 10 at 4:58 pmval added these pithy words on Jan 22 10 at 3:37 amoh crap i thought it was tavi till i read the story.
anyway, it looks real cool, wanna get that issue.
