An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the collections of A Magazine Curated By guest-curators Iris Van Herpen, Thom Browne and Giambattista Valli.
FUTURA PROXIMA
CURATED FOR GUCCI
Photography by Carlijn Jacobs & Make-up by Thomas de Kluyver
Evie Harris at Ford wears Gucci High Jewelry ‘Hortus Deliciarium’ Tourmaline, Diamond and White Gold Cocktail Ring
A PUBLISHER presents FUTURA PROXIMA Curated For Gucci — a spiral-bound, perforated ‘calendar’ magazine conceived on the occasion of Gucci’s centennial anniversary. This 132-page hybrid editorial publication, designed to be hung on the wall or read like a magazine, includes a cross-cultural exploration of the passage of time for the year 2022 and beyond. FUTURA PROXIMA is brought to life over 12 months with 12 artists divining the future through their thinking and their craft.
Designed by Paris-based design studio Ohlman Consorti, FUTURA PROXIMA includes a deep graphic study into the language of calendars, including radial and numeric variants that detail birthstones, flowers, and each month written in a selection of 12 languages: English, Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Cherokee, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Hindi.
FUTURA PROXIMA is available for Pre-Order online here from December 1st for holiday delivery, and in selected bookstores and kiosks worldwide from mid-December.
MANIFESTO
“FUTURA PROXIMA is a glimpse at tomorrow — a map of maybes, and a fractal question mark of intriguing possibilities. The extremes of utopias and dystopias dissolve in its pages, replaced by 12 polyvalent excursions into the near distant future. Exploring the speculative interactions of our human form parsed with aesthetics and architecture, literature, biology and philosophy, it presents a non-linear loop of creative constructs for our physical and digital realities alike.”
CONTRIBUTORS
January – Emanuele Coccia
February – Simon Denny
Photography by Nick Ash
March – Natsuko Uchino
Photography by Marvin Leuvrey
April – Ben Elliot
May – Alice Potts
June – Aurèce Vettier
July – Jeremy Shaw
August – Katie Paterson
September – Carlijn Jacobs & Thomas de Kluyver
Styling by Imruh Asha
October – Aria Dean
November – Manger Manger
Photography by Jonathan Llense
December – Cui Jie
Resident 1 by Simon Denny, 2021
Photography by Nick Ash
Squid Money (13, 5, 11) by Natsuko Ochino, 2021
Photography by Marvin Leuvrey
Smartsuit by Ben Elliot, 2021
‘Borsa In Sudore’ with Gucci ‘Aria’ Horsebit 1955 handbag by Alice Potts, 2021
‘I am the lapis-lazuli in the palace garden that you are forbidden to touch, the companion of the one who hears, without my blue, the pomegranate trees and oleander would have no colour.’ AV-2021-U-159 by Aurèce Vettier, 2021
Photography by Rio Gandara for Helsingin Sanomat
Hyeonsung in ‘Proxima Centauri’ by Carlijn Jacobs & Thomas de Kluyver, 2021
Untitled (Obscenities) by Aria Dean, 2017
Jelly Cake – Agar (Gracilaria), Activated Charcoal, Collagen Peptides and Spirulina (Arthrospira Platensis) Gucci forks with lion head handle in Alpaca Silver by Manger Manger, 2021 in ‘Élan Vital’
Photography by Jonathan Llense
中部非洲国家银行，雅温得 (Bank of Central African States, Yaoundé) by Cui Jie, 2020
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May 13 – July 2, 2023 at the Renaissance Society, Chicago
At The Renaissance Society, Chicago, an untitled exhibition curated by the artist Shahryar Nashat and writer & curator Bruce Hainley simultaneously investigates the enigmatic relationships between image, perception, and the human body as a living or undead currency.
A MAGAZINE CURATED BY SACAI
The 25th issue of has been guest edited by Chitose Abe of the Japanese cult label sacai. As the first Japanese woman to curate an issue, Abe has called upon her inner circle of friends, family and artistic collaborators to contribute cultural and creative content across the 200 page magazine.