What is TOILETPAPER magazine? It’s all about the pictures quite frankly, Catellan himself says that “the pictures probe the unconscious, tapping into sublimated perversions and spasms of violence.”
More than
that, Toiletpaper’s issues begin with a
theme, always something basic and general, but the process takes that basic and general theme and makes
out of it a pearl of surrealist art, he talks about that matter in his opening
night of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum of New York: “…as we start, we move like a painter on a
canvas, layering and building up the issue. We always find ourselves in a place
we didn’t expect to be. The best images are the result of improvisation…”
and he says what a “toiletpaper photo” should be :
“We keep homing in on
what a Toiletpaper image is. Like distilling a perfume. It’s not about one
particular style or time frame; what makes them Toiletpaper is a special twist.
An uncanny ambiguity.”
As I have
previously mentioned, Catellan can speak for himself far better than anyone
could, that’s why I will only recommend you to check his magazine, smile, think
a bit and most important, enjoy it!
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