Saturday, September 6, 2008

Zingmagazine: capturing art's laissez-faire nature


Hey, so when does the next issue of your favorite come out? A week from now? A month? Certainly, you can answer that for yourself, but not if you are an avid follower of ZingMagazine. The magazine has no fixed pattern of releasing their issues, although that is done on purpose. And at least for me, I think that that is a great way to portray nature of the art they produce; spontaneous and loose. ZingMagazine covers a wide variety of art, including (but not limited to), fashion, poetry, music, paintings, etc. Everyone with some creative juice flowing through their system is encouraged to submit their works to the magazine. Zing Magazine is the brainchild of Devon Dikeou, and was born in 1995. The first issue came to about 100 pages. It was initially just a magazine, but soon branched out into other ventures such as publishing books and producing CDs. It is also affiliated with a nonprofit art group in Denver called the Dikeou Collection, owned by the Zing Magazine's founder and his brother. According to Wikipedia, Zing Magazine has produced work from artists such as Kenneth Goldsmith, Rainer Ganahl, Spencer Finch, Zac Antoni, Mrcel Dzama and more.

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