Stating from #83, IdN is co-publishing COLORS with Fabrica, launching an English/Chinese bilingual edition for Hong Kong, China & Taiwan; as well as an English/Italian edition for Australia & New Zealand!

COLORS 83: Happiness — A Survival Guide
You get it when you win a race and lose it when you get laid off. Governments put it in their policies, preachers in their sermons, writers at the ends of their stories. Scientists say they’ve found it on the left side of the brain. Pursuing it, Americans spend US$20 billion a year on self-help and antidepressants. But wealth isn’t working: people in the West are twice as rich as they were sixty years ago, yet no more satisfied with their lives. Twenty years from now, depression will be the biggest health burden in the world. Joy, euphoria, satisfaction, tranquility, triumph. It comes in many forms. So what makes you happy?

The first half of the book focuses on what follows the Street Art movement and traces a subversive movement known as Moussism back to Caravaggio.

The second half of the book gives some insight into projects Modart participated in during 2009/10, while talking about various artworks via antidotes about our escapades in Brussels, Berlin, Tirana, Miami and other cities around the world.

Artists include:
Zoe Strauss (USA), Jeroen Jongeleen (NL), David Shrigley (UK), Abner Preis (USA), Willehad Eijers (DE), East Eric (FR), Nomad (DE), Mark Jenkins (USA) and Will Barras (UK). Dadara (NL), Logan Hicks (USA), The Math Rat (BZ), Morcky Troubles (IT), Alex Diamond (DE), Admir Jahic / The Invisible Heroes (CH), Faith47 (SA), Swanski (PL), Byram (BE), Boris Hoppek (DE), H. Beagle (USA), ROA (BE), Ripo (USA) and Smash137 (CH).

FREE MOUSSE FAQ included!

About Mousse
Carvaggio could be the first MOUSSE artist and played a significant role in the Counter Reformation, an artistic movement that struggled to create a balance to the reformation (and not be crucified). As the church manipulated art and social aesthetic values in propaganda maneuvers. Carvagio managed to make MOUSSE of the most recognized icons. He was a complete faux pas, but he was also such a good painter that it didn’t matter.

We can take as examples, the seductive lips of the Lute Player, his drunken green Baccus or the first things that strike the eye when we come across his work ‘Madonna di Loretto.’ The first thing you see are dirty feet and the ass of a man, Madonna as a whore and peasants as believers, a baby so big he has no business being in his mother’s arms. Carvaggio made MOUSSE by abusing form through mastery of craft and managing to make subversive work without compromising the sincerity of his expression.

He found a way to personalize commissions in a style that was ugly and sweet and undeniable. He sold his creativity and guarded his authenticity with his life. This is essential to making MOUSSE. This is where the honest and emotional are safe from mediated onslaught and illusion. It is an ethical stance towards creating in general and specifically to creating art. The work is not concerned with politics as a subject, the political act is the communication of the work.

The first half of the book focuses on what follows Street Art and traces a subversive movement known as Moussism back to Caravaggio.

Artists include:
Zoe Strauss (USA), Jeroen Jongeleen (NL), David Shrigley (UK), Abner Preis (USA), Willehad Eijers (DE), East Eric (FR), Nomad (DE), Mark Jenkins (USA) and Will Barras (UK).

The second half of the book gives some insight into the projects Modart participated in during 2009/10, while talking about various artworks via antidotes about our escapades in Brussels, Berlin, Tirana, Miami and other cities around the world.

Artists include:
Dadara (NL), Logan Hicks (USA), The Math Rat (BZ), Morcky Troubles (IT), Alex Diamond (DE), Admir Jahic / The Invisible Heroes (CH), Faith47 (SA), Swanski (PL), Byram (BE), Boris Hoppek (DE), H. Beagle (USA), ROA (BE), Ripo (USA) and Smash137 (CH).

GUDBERG is a design mag born in Hamburg, Germany, that’s gained international recognition since its humble beginnings in September 2007. Behind the magazine is a creative agency collective called GUDBERG that mainly works in publishing, illustration and editorial
design. They curate and design four issues a year, each with a major editorial topic and feature international artists. GUDBERG can be found in select galleries, bookstores, cafés or hotels. You’ve got to be quick though – as they only print 2000 copies of each issue, and they’re usually quickly snatched up.