MATTO magazine’s seventh issue – “Ce sont les nuages qui nous connectent ” – explores contemporary art, philosophy in the everyday and the process of making through conversations, studio visits and carte blanche. In this issue all is ultimately linked by the desire to live better together.
Contributors: Gerard & Kelly, Sam Chermayeff, Agata Ingarden, Claire Cottrell, Paola Antonelli, Formafantasma, Martina Simeti – Turi Simeti, Morgane Martini, Laura Lamiel, architecture practice Bplus.xyz, Liva Dudareva, Masanao Hirayama, Aodhan Madden. Essays and writtings about Italian grandmother, rainy day in Ireland, friendship in Tamil Nadu, and the future of the past in Sharjah, UAE.
“There is the sense of vocation, a belief in something, which one can sense in artists’ studios. Each time leaving this one late artist’s studio in Milan, it gave me that feeling. In his studio where the everyday and his works are intertwined, his works live next to common objects and works of others. The artist’s physical body is no longer there but the body of work is, a body that was invested into, that was nourished and cared for, that the artist poured himself to. Works made like this have the belief of their importance inserted into them. On my last visit the artist’s daughter, Martina, spoke of how daily life gets in the way. I mentioned the words of Roman Jakobson about V. Mayakovsky, “In the same way as the poetry, at the same time inseparable from the actual life and in disagreement with it, he is inlaid between the services, the income (…) Love is crushed by the everyday”. Her father’s practice had both, the love and the poetry, and life needs both. They are qualities worth fighting for, everyday, because they are always in a clash with the everyday.” –Dominika Hadelova, co-editor
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168 pgs, 27 × 20 cm, Softcover, 2023,