Pfeil Magazine #8 - Ex
Montez Press
$16.00
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Pfeil Magazine #8 - Ex
Montez Press
$16.00
Within the format of a magazine, each page of Pfeil represents the floor, walls, or ceiling which together create an imagined room displaying a printed exhibition. Each issue is dedicated to a specific word, and artists are invited and given space to work on and with this term, and to construct or deconstruct the architecture around it. Combined, the contributions transform into an organic display surrounding the leitmotif.

Maybe no one wants to know how often their dish is in use, or who used it before. As a momentary possession, as something intimate, it can be an unpleasant surprise to figure out that the shade of lipstick marking the glass doesn’t suit the one drinking from it. But of course, the former customer will not have been the only one. Dishes in restaurants are not used just once or twice, except at places where fast food is served in disposable tableware. Still, even when dishes are used for a single meal, counting the use of the material becomes complicated because of recycling. It seems unlikely that a plate would turn into a plate again, rather than into an ashtray, drawing paper or...

Contributions by: Monika Baer, Hans Bussert, Katharina von Dolffs, Carsten Fock, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Burk Koller, Denis Kudrjasov, Jonathan Monk, Nicole Ondre, Tobias Peper, Stella Rossié, Anne Schwätzler, Chloe Stead, Sue Tompkins, Bernhard Willhelm

Editor: Anja Dietmann
Year: 2017
Pages: 76
Dimensions: 24 x 34 cm
Cover: Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-945247-26-6
Language: English
Found in: Design  Food  Graphic Design  Journals & Magazines  Writing