Scandinavian Artist Editions
Time for us to admit that we have a thing for collecting obscure magazines, artist editions and interesting fanzines from all over the world and especially those from close to home in Scandinavia. It's probably no surprise to readers of lifeiscarbon® since we’ve already mentioned most of the magazines that we love and previously written about small independent publishers such as Cederteg and Farewell.
Our new favorites are Soyfriends, an independent publisher based in Norway and dedicated to printing and distributing works by selected Scandinavian and International artists. Their editions, produced by the artists themselves and then distributed by Soyfriends, are hand-made, individually numbered and printed in extremely limited numbers of 20 to 100 copies.
Soyfriends fanzines are currently being featured as part of the permanent traveling exhibition Kiosk and were exhibited last year at Art Basel (Switzerland), Hit The Books (Belgium) and at Carbon Copy Commodity (Bell Roberts, South Africa). Take a look below to find out more about Soyfriends and to view sample work from the artists published so far; Magnus Voll, Mathiassen/Grandpeople, Frankie Martin, Maja Sten, Rui Tenreiro, Nick Cortese, Daniel Jensen, Luke Best, Ron Regé Jr, Martin Skauen and Kalle Runeson):
Upcoming artists include Kristoffer Busch, Jessica Williams, Laurent Fetis, Robert Prinsloo, Andy Rementer, Kristoffer Kjølberg, Bendik Kaltenborn, Justin Bartlett, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Tim Pigott and lifeiscarbon® favorites Yokoland, Halvor Bodi, and Kim Hiorthøy.
Artists and writers will find two very interesting and useful documents available for download from the Soyfriends website: A basic guide to making your own home-publications with minimum resources (250 Kb) and useful tips on how to work better with xerography, silkscreening and offset by Ron Rege Jr, Dave Choe, Brian Ralph and Jordan Crane.
Ron Regé, Jr. Sick Magic
Kalle Runeson Nihilism, Emptiness, Nothingness & Nonsense
Martin Skauen Untitled
Luke Best On The Edge of Mesa
Daniel Jensen Hotel Kalifornia
Nick Cortese Ghost
Rui Tenreiro Partie de Campagne
Magnus Voll Mathiassen Grandpeople Darkness
Frankie Martin 2GTHR
Maja Sten Coffee Tea Me?
Rui Tenreiro
The World of Art
Shops that stock Soyfriends include Torpedo Books (Norway) FAMILY (L.A., US) Ooga Booga (L.A., US) Gake Shobo (Kyoto, Japan) YEBISU ART LABO (Nagoya, Japan) Lux (Finland) NAPA (Finland) Pitkä Mies (Finland) Monster Children (Australia) The Drama Store (US) David Krut Publishing (South Africa) Duduá (Spain)
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