“De Zines” exhibition (curated and designed by Roberto Vidal and Oscar Martín) together with “oscuro y salvaje” and “everything is out there” had an opening last night in La Casa Encendida (Madrid). De Zines is a group show on contemporary editorial design where over 400 hundred publications are at readers hand-reach.

Visitors will find zines ranging from really cool DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental publications and almost everything in between on subjects like design, fashion, drawing, photography, philosophy, queerzines and lots more.                If you wonder what to do in a hot summer day in Madrid you can always stop by and spend a few hours flicking through or reading in a great and well air-conditioned exhibition.

De zines is on until the 29th of august at La Casa Encendida (Madrid).

Pictures by Mercedes Marín

‘De Zines’, tries to reflect what is happening in the contemporary editorial creation on the level of independent publications, how this area relates to the artistic production and social, cultural and current political environment.

Around 400 international publications have been gathered from most established magazines in the market until handmade zines and a selection of experimental magazines.

In times of constant technological revolution and immediate access to information through the network, paper, as a media for the dissemination of culture and information seems destined to disappear. However, the number of independent publications do not stop growing. In fact, different forms of communication, digital and analogue can coexist. It’s about different ways, uses and times ranging between the immediacy of digital and the traditional way of disseminating and consuming cultural creation and art. Its contents tend to be more timeless and invite paused reflection. Beautiful design and text written with loving care in a continuous search for seamless integration between content and form. In general, they are still spaces for dissemination, review and reflection on cultural production. Objects themselves, everlasting, pages of printed paper that can be touched with the fingers, means of underground cultural expression. In the case of experimental magazines involves a different way to approach to these publications, full of visual impact, subject to different interpretations, inexhaustible source of emotions and feelings. They already have a notable presence in art fairs, specialized bookstores and museum shops.

’De Zines’, articulated as a consultation room, a space that does not only creates traffic but a place to stay, increasing the desire to know, trying to help the audience to find a those issues so that a sense of recognition. In short, create networks among people with a similar vision in a global and plural world.

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Curators: Roberto Vidal (www.robertovidal.com) and Óscar Martín (www.byoscarmartin.com)
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Inéditos 2010
La Casa Encendida ( www.lacasaencendida.es/en)
29 June to 29 August 2010 / Room A
Ronda Valencia, 2
28012 Madrid – Spain
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