Downtown, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
Masculini, Issue 0
The Vanity EastDid you ever feel like your magazine should be looser? Masculini is a magazine so loose, it’s barely contained by the giant cannelloni noodle poking through its center (Pasta Pin™). The looseness of Masculini is evident in many senses: visually, thematically, chronologically and spiritually. Initiated in early 2013 by Nancy Lupo and Molly McFadden, Masculini Issue 0 is a set of content and random imagery collaged into the pages of twelve half-Vogue magazines from 1999. The logo, typesetting and covers are by Cassandra Cisneros. While leafing through Masculini, you may recognize such familiar faces as Stella Tennant, a young fresh Gisele Bündchen, those great girls from the late-90’s Prada ads, one of whom I’m pretty sure sat in the row behind me on a plane once (in coach!). She looked great. Masculini offers something special for nearly every reader, from an interview with Memphis designer Natalie du Pasquier to a provocative script by Nik Gelormino, a silver gelatin print by Em Rooney, as well as nearly invisible images from Christopher Page. There’s a plaid poster print by Cheryl Donegan, three tissue collages from Christian Holstad and two takes on defining Art’s Minimum/The Minimum Degree by Stacie Vos and Jeffrey Stuker. You’ll learn about the latest in office trends and how many circles there are in LA. If you hunt them all down, you could win a Masculini T-shirt! Leila Hekmat reports on the romantic chasm dividing New York and Berlin and Phyllis La Farge talks turkey about beauty. Some things that got cut out were a quiz (!) and a column called “Untenable.” Also, we forgot to ask Tony Conrad to write something, which was a mistake. Over the course of a month, one issue of Masculini will be viewable under a vitrine designed and built by Nik Gelormino. The magazine will be moved through slowly, at the rate of about 10 pages per day. For more rapid viewing, Masculini can also be found at masculini.us or by appointment in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.