Magenta Magazine: A Journal of International Art
Volume 4, Number 1 — Spring 2013 (click for full table of contents)
Sara Cwynar: Colour Studies
Brooklyn-based Canadian Sara Cwynar's photographs are informed by her collecting habits and propelled by her love of documentation. For the "Colour Studies" series (2012), Cwynar has accumulated a mass of objects and honours her “hoarding” obsession through the photographs, which read like still life arrangements, or images from catalogues or advertising.....
Maryanne Casasanta
Maryanne Casasanta’s photographs examine the relationships between art and home, art and life, and home and studio. In her practice, the interstitial space between image and object are drawn together through photography, temporary installations, and found or fabricated objects....
Caitlin Rueter: Ablutions
Caitlin Rueter’s “Ablutions” series (2012) is part of a larger ongoing body of work, How to Be, based on the artist’s re-imaginings of the contents of early-19th Century etiquette books for young women...
Krista Buecking
WE THING, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based Canadian Krista Buecking, points to the intangibility of the neoliberal ideal, playing with the linguistic development of the word ‘thing’...
Dream Home: Frank Mädler’s images feel suspended in time
During the last five years, Leipzig-based photographer Frank Mädler has received attention for photographs that combine the abstract with the real. Through juxtapositions of colour and space, he blurs the line between the actual and the illusory, creating work that gives the impression of daydreams or half-recalled memories....
Cold Conversations: Jeff Thomas reframes First Nations culture
Canadian First Nations photographer Jeff Thomas creates bodies of work that can be understood as ongoing "conversations"... Thomas’s dialogic approach can be seen in his installation of photographs that humanize and anthropomorphize sculptures and figurines, and more explicitly in his engagement with the archival material of American photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)....
Nailing it: Robyn Cumming tries her hand at sculpture and videoFor almost 10 years, Toronto-based Robyn Cumming has produced images that are just as likely to confound and discomfort as they are to make viewers chuckle. Taking cues from traditional studio portraiture, and clichéd nature and stock photography, Cumming often uses the body as a prop, placing it against strange or decorative settings....
