I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Sunday November 11th — —

The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Sunday November 11th — —

“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Sunday November 11th — —

The Art of Sergei Sviatchenko

‘Everything goes right and left if you want it’ is the title of the first publication on Sergei Sviatchenko, the good man behind Close Up and Private. The Berlin-based publisher Gestalten released this beautiful book featuring Sviatchenko’s modern collages and keen eye on colour. “In the world of contemporary art, Sviatchenko is a provocateur. He draws on and harnesses all of the cultural tides he has experienced in 40 years of image-making. Sviatchenko’s oeuvre spans the known and the unimaginable. It cuts through the boundaries of traditional and contemporary visuals to merge pop culture with politics, personal memory with collective histories, and architecture and science with the logic of dreams.”

The book is on pre-order now, and a must have on every proper bookshelf and coffee table. Get it here.