UPON PAPER magazine #03 – LOVERS coming May 27th

Magazine cover UPON PAPERThe art platform UPON PAPER is entering its second year and we are looking forward to celebrating the launch of UPON PAPER magazine #03 and the opening of the thematically related group exhibition LOVERS.

The third issue of the elaborately produced XXL magazine will be available at select bookstores, magazine stores, museum shops, and concept stores starting on May 27.

UPON PAPER magazine #03

Defined in terms of an objet de désir, UPON PAPER magazine was destined to take this passion literally in its third issue and to realize the theme of Lovers by means of powerful images.

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UPON PAPER Magazine – the ultimate Christmas gift for art lovers

UPON PAPER #2 - inside With its imposing 49 x 69 centimetre format, UPON PAPER is set apart from your usual art magazine. Having been awarded with the red dot: grand prix 2012, the magazine perceives itself as an innovative platform for artists and creative people all over the world. The first issue focused on the topic ‘Los Angeles’, with ‘COLOR’ being the special topic of the recently published issue #2.

Photographers such as Peter Bailey and Wolfgang Tillmans have contributed perspectives and positions to the topic COLOR – and the same applies to performance artist and painter Hermann Nitsch, musician and artist Kim Gordon and author Julia Zange. The cover of the issue was created by Peter Saville and the centrefold by Nick Knight, who crosses the borders between art, fashion and pop culture. Other artists who contributed to UPON PAPER #02 COLOR are – inter alia – the likes of Walter Pfeiffer, Erwan Frotin, Michele Abeles, David Benjamin Sherry, Solange Brand and Steve Shapiro.

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UPON PAPER magazine receives “red dot: grand prix award” 2012

UPON PAPER red dot design awardOn the occasion of the red dot awards ceremony on October 24, UPON PAPER magazine’s first issue won the coveted “red dot: grand prix” in the category Magazines & Daily Press – the highest possible distinction from one of the largest and best-known international design competitions. Of the 6,823 entries from 43 countries, only 15 participants received a grand prix from the jury, on which sat renowned experts from all over the world.

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UPON PAPER magazine #02: COLOR coming October 22, 2012

UPON PAPER #2 - HahnemühleUPON PAPER found its start in Berlin in March 2012 as an innovative platform for the exchange between artists, photographers, designers, and art enthusiasts from around the world. Following the successful launch of the XXL-magazine’s first issue – on the theme of Los Angeles – and the two exhibitions Planet L.A. and Niall O’Brien’s Good Rats, UPON PAPER #02 will be appearing on October 22, 2012. The second issue has taken COLOR as its main theme.

UPON PAPER is an initiative of Hahnemühle FineArt, and its concept is based on three complementary channels: the semiannual, monothematic, large-format (490 . 690 mm) magazine; the exhibition venue UPON PAPER space, in Berlin Mitte; and the professionally edited UPON PAPER web.

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UPON PAPER Magazine receives the red dot: best of the best Award

Reddot Award Upon PaperThe efforts of Creative Director Helder Suffenplan’s design team and the editorial team around publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Holger Homann, have been recognized by the red dot award, one of the world’s largest and best-known design competitions: The magazine’s first edition was awarded the coveted “best of the best” distinction, in honor of the highest level of quality in design.

“I’m very happy about this high-level distinction,” said Helder Suffenplan. “It’s a great appreciation for a concept that is fundamentally unwieldy: UPON PAPER magazine is not easy reading, and it demands the full attention and involvement of its readers. The jury has honored this ambition and that makes the entire team very proud.”

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