Cork Street Galleries has revealed Plaster Magazine as the guest editor of CATALOGUE, Cork Street Galleries’ journal for contemporary art.
Issue 7.0 boldly goes where it has never been before as a ‘magazine within a magazine’ that will launch into the stratosphere on 26 November 2024, featuring fourteen special poster editions by Cork Street artists.
In Issue 7.0, psychic medium and art enthusiast Kim Alexis embarks upon a mysterious journey to discover the ghosts of Cork Street past, with uncanny results. Meanwhile, Plaster Magazine’s quiz promises to reveal which kind of gallery-goer you are, whilst pitting your knowledge of the street against that of artificial intelligence giant Chat GPT.
Plaster Magazine unpicks the innermost workings of Cork Street, whether it be Alison Jacques’ morning commute from Primrose Hill, or tracking down those behind the scenes who make it all happen. There’s Caroline Coon’s ‘Rejection Letter’ and interviews with two of the most exciting young artists working today – Emma Prempeh and Dominique Fung.
The fourteen collectible posters placed at random, one per copy, include work by thirteen artists represented by Cork Street’s galleries, along with a new work by Sir John Akomfrah, whose The Secret Life of Memorable Things (2024) has been exhibited on banners above Cork Street since May, and will continue to be displayed into 2025.
Contributing artists include Sir John Akomfrah, Sophie Barber, Murray Clarke, Virginia Chihota, Lenz Geerk, Muyeong Kim, Mona Kuhn, Sam Nhlengethwa, Tony Oursler, Tuesday Riddell, Eric Tucker, Fabienne Verdier and Yooyun Yang.
Founded in 2020, Plaster Magazine has become instantly recognisable for its discerning, humorous editorial approach, becoming a celebrated alternative voice and irreverent force within the art world. Designed by Hingston Studio and edited by Dean Mayo Davies, Catalogue Magazine was established in 2016. Previous guest editors include Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
“Since its inception by brothers Finn Constantine and Milo Astaire in 2020, the London-based art publication Plaster Magazine has been increasingly on our radar, as it has many a gallerist’s desk, for its forthrightness and wit, personality barely held in place by the confines of its pages.”
– Dean Mayo Davies, Editor of CATALOGUE
“Cork Street is a fascinating place. Its history is rich and its community of art galleries is even richer. We wanted to anchor the magazine on the street, but lift the curtain on those glossy facades.”
– Plaster Magazine
Contributing galleries include Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Waddington Custot, MASSIMODECARLO, Flowers Gallery, Nahmad Projects, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, Sam Fogg, Goodman Gallery, Alison Jacques, Holtermann Fine Art, Messums Org, Tiwani Contemporary, Stephen Friedman Gallery and The Redfern Gallery.
About
CATALOGUE is the publication of Cork Street Galleries, an initiative from the Pollen Estate. Editorial-led and highly collectible, the magazine is driven by concept, every edition seen through a different collaborative lens, both relating to and catalysing its moment.
Past issues have been guest edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The legacies of which are the realisation of artists’ previously unrealised projects, London’s first augmented reality art exhibition in association with Acute Art featuring Precious Okoyomon, Koo Jeong A and Tomás Saraceno, and the inauguration of the revered Cork Street Banners Commission, currently showing new work by Sir John Akomfrah, representing Britain in the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Founded in 2020 as a poster magazine, Plaster Magazine launched fully in 2023 as a print and digital platform covering visual art and the fascinating, often bizarre world surrounding it. Its editorial approach is rooted in honesty, humour, personality, quality journalism and a distinctive visual identity. In the art publishing landscape, Plaster Magazine offers a unique balance of satire and sincerity in a space where things are often taken a bit too seriously. @plastermagazine
Cork Street Galleries, an initiative from The Pollen Estate, lies at the centre of the highest concentration of galleries in London, and has remained at the forefront of cutting-edge art movements since the first gallery opened on the street in 1925.
As well as becoming the unrivalled hub for Surrealism during the 1930s, Cork Street launched the careers of some of the leading forces in art from the past century. Modern artists such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth have exhibited on the street, while Francis Bacon’s work was seen publicly for the first time in a group exhibition in 1933.
In 2018, The Pollen Estate acquired 23,000 sq ft of additional gallery space on the East side of the street. This move tripled the existing space, underlining the estate’s commitment to preserving Cork Street as the epicentre of the London art scene and the spiritual home of modern and contemporary art. corkstgalleries.com
