Up-and-Coming Style is a biannual magazine dedicated to contemporary photography and all its influences which aims to set itself out as a creative space, a reference point for fashion photography and contemporary art, which will promote new and old faces. — Order Issue 1!
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR: Andrea Quarantotto
EDITORIAL CURATOR: Elisabetta Porcinai
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Lamberto Cantoni
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Cecilia Esposito,
Federico Ferrari, Vittoria Maschietto, Alberto Moreu, Sara Scialpi
FASHION EDITOR: Maria De Los Angeles Monari
PRESS OFFICE: Maria Rita Catasta
DESIGN AND TYPEFACES: Think Work Observe
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The Autonomy of Form
by Andrea Quarantotto and Elisabetta Porcinai
We wish to celebrate raw beauty and what seems unimportant and banal. No one really needs Reality to be represented, as reality in itself is not realistic. What is represented could be fiction as well as truth.We will surely not worry about a photograph being presumedly moral or not. Given that all the collected artworks unmistakeably differ one from the other, it is also true that what distinguishes art, as such, is its continuity – its extended and uninterrupted surface… like different galaxies found in the same material universe, thus images must reach that balance that transcends and unifies them by means of one common denominator: form. Form is indeed where the artistic essence lies: in its matter, consistency, concreteness, in the superficiality of the subject represented, as well as in the representational modes themselves. In order to be contemporary, every work of art must have its own autonomy, it must be able to preserve a formal value independently from its context. It must be able to recognize and celebrate what makes it irreducible. It must be exposed to the risk of being re-interpreted, re-proposed, modified, even defrauded of its meaning. Conditioned over time, by the variability of references and perspectives, form appears to be the only thing an artwork will ever be able to maintain. Being aware of this, defending substantiality, the thingness of objects means being able to, as Kandinsky would say, “make the soul vibrate”.
The words hereby written, inspire us with the strength to make a promise rather than a statement. This is our Manifesto; this is Up-and-Coming Style. Our objective is for art to be profoundly lived, believed in, shared and contemplated… To be absolutely real in its abstractness, sincere in its fiction, celebrated, shaped, embraced: as an instrument, as a potential force. Art, the unique and unlimited treasure belonging to humanity and its existence.
Issue 1: order printed edition, stockist
Description: 23,5×30 cm, 368 pages on uncoated and coated paper, hardbound, with hot-foiled printed cover. Internationally distributed by KDPress. Contributors: Giulia Bersani, Alessandro Casagrande, Federico Ferrari, Claudia Grassl, Bernhard Handick, Ruggero Lupo Mengoni, Eleonora Marton, Alberto Moreu, Ricardo Passaporte, Gian Giacomo Pepe, Elisabetta Porcinai, Andrea Quarantotto, Silva+Cemin, Robert Tepiak, Think Work Observe, Daisuke Yokota. Contributing writers: Lamberto Cantoni, Vittoria Maschietto, Elisabetta Porcinai, Andrea Quarantotto, Sara Scialpi.
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