20/11/2023
📦More ABOUT The Special Zine Collection for the
➰📖✨The Special Zine Collextion is a series of self-published titles from 17 artists and designers based in Helsinki: each of them have been invited to publish a title “carteblanche” for the Art Book Fair.
Their practices are not primarily based on publishing, in fact, most of them have never made a publication themselves. All, however, in some ways or another, have a sensibility in printed matters, or a speculative interest in it. What happens when you ask a sculptor, a fashion designer, a photographer, an illustrator, a cook, type and graphic designers, an artist-curator, filmmakers, multidisciplinary artists, and painters, to make a zine?
Including both established and blooming creatives, they have been selected for their significant impact in the Finnish cultural scene, representing its diversity and current
presence.
These titles gravitate in the search of what the act of publishing is, as a medium of expression and the multiple possibilities behind it. Driven by an excitement of making, it’s the honest ‘do it yourself’ attitude and the freedom to explore the medium, that makes the titles presented a collection of uncut gemstones.
The titles are singular, some are only one-offs works for display, others are printed in a very limited amount. They are the results of exploration and experiments over publishing, blurring, mixing, shaping it in singular ways:
The Special Zine Collection includes works of: Heta Bilaletdin , Maija Fox , talking through our bodies (Kasia Zofia Gorniak) , Helsinki Type Studio / Niklas Ekholm , Juho Huttunen , Antti Kalevi , koira1 , Heikki Lotvonen & Gladys Camilio , Hanan & Saara Mahbouba , Frans Nybacka , Iiri Poteri , Anniina Ruonala , Niklas Sandberg , Shubanghi Singh , Jaakko Suomalainen , Sakari Tervo & Risako Yamanoi .
