Saturday, January 24, 2008, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Printed Matter is pleased to announce a launch for Issue 8 of PINUPS, an ongoing artist's publication playing on the historical centerfold practice of nudie magazines by making the centerfold the sole feature. Please join us on Saturday, January 24th, 2008 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, between 21st and 22nd Street in New York City.
PINUPS is a triannual publication that features one to two nude male models. There are no words—just an exaggeration of the classic centerfold. The magazine exists in book form but can be taken apart and tiled to reveal a life-size image. The magazine is printed in New York.
Issue 8, the first of 2009, brings together Juanjo and Tony in a pictorial inspired by the gladiatorial scene in Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969). Two friends bond through wrestling, conjuring feelings of playfulness, competitiveness, violence and sexuality.
As always, the magazine can be arranged to reveal a 70"x32" image. The issue features 25 black and white images in 56 pages.
Christopher Schulz was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and now lives in Brooklyn. He has created printed matter and ephemera for sixteen years, since he made his first mix-tape. He has produced Pinups for two years. PINUPS, Issue 8 retails for $14 and is offset printed in an edition of 1,000. It can be purchased at Printed Matter's storefront or at www.printedmatter.org. Back issues of PINUPSare also available.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications.
Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.
