CURA. / 43

In Coming of Age, a work by the British artist Matt Copson, a child is born, grows, eats and, fueled by an avid curiosity about the world, devours everything around him, until he becomes an incarnation of what surrounds him and what quickly transforms him, even before consuming him: that is, a world that is too big and appalling, incompatible with the innocence of his young age.

 

In the Fall Winter 24-25 issue which closes the fifteenth anniversary celebration of CURA., Coming of Age is a plural and multifaceted story of growth, discovery, affirmation, defeat and corruption, that recounts the ambiguities of the present time, the sense of loss of illusions, trapped in a reality in front of which one is both an adult and a child, corrupt and innocent, cynical and curious. A limbo between hope and reality places events in which we witness a whole that unfolds at once inside and outside of us. Propelled into such ambiguity—neither past nor future—we are overwhelmed by a flow of things and events, a changing and metamorphic landscape, which translates the upheavals of a new awareness and a new age.

With Matt Copson as Editor-at-Large and a special logo designed by Zak Kyes, CURA. 43 presents an incredible lineup of artists, works, editorial previews, new contributions, and special commissions. The artist’s cover (introduced by a text by Diana Campbell and a chorus of fictional characters orchestrated by Charlie Fox) is accompanied by two other covers that preview stills from the new films by Camille Henrot (introduced by a conversation with Laura McLean-Ferris and a text by Margot Norton) and by Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, John Michael Boling and Jason Coombs for Fondazione Prada (with a text by Lumi Tan and a conversation between Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani).

 

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CURA. magazine includes specific sections devoted to the curatorial approaches of the past and present and special interventions by expressly invited curators and artists, the actors of novel interactions between text, graphics and images. Conversations, visual essays, critical texts, thematic analysis, lab projects are just some of the various formats through which the contents of the magazine are developed and presented.