Zingmagazine #16

zingmagazine is a contemporary art magazine composed of curatorial projects founded in 1995 by artist/editor/publisher Devon Dikeou

A great epoch has begun.
There exists a new spirit.
There exists a mass of work conceived in the new spirit; it is to be met with particularly in industrial production.
Architecture is stifled by custom.
The “styles” are a lie.
Style is a unity of principle animating all the work of an epoch, the result of a state of mind which has its own special character.
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style.
Our eyes, unhappily are unable yet to discern it.

—Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

Written in 1923, this architectural manifest’s ideal seems prurient in the tidal wave that has castrated the US people, land, architecture, ideals, freedoms, and seeming sovereignty. The mass has come down. The style assaulted, the epoch destroyed, the purveyors of that epoch measured by their devastation, but their spirit remains and will be renewed. However horrifically—our eyes, unhappily are unable yet to discern it—but, it will come.

The cover—a close up of a butterfly wing, is delicate and brittle, beautiful beyond physical measure, short lived but magnificent in its fleeting life—a metaphor of the Twin Towers which began their growth in the ’60s. They appeared as babes in a cacoon on the cover of zingmagazine seven, only 30 years in existence, and seem unrecognizable, compared to their grown manifestation extinguished now, and forever devastated into a piedmont of rubble, encrypted into our consciousness—religious, economic, technological, political or otherwise. Those Towers. These wings.

featuring
Kenny Schachter & Vito Acconci
David Brady & Mark Sink
Yeon-doo Jung
Vik Muniz
Sico Carlier & Ben Laloua
Lisa Kereszi
James Fuentes
Patricia Cronin
Paul Ramirez Jonas
William Pope L
zingmagazine CD #2: Aesthetics
zingmagazine book #3: Serge Onnen

ISSUE 16, WINTER 2002