Salon Light #7- GAGARIN

GAGARIN Could you please present yourself and your activities.GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words is a unique international artist’s magazine (°2000), entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. The texts are published in their original language and alphabetical writing with the addition of an unabridged English translation. GAGARIN has published artists’ texts in Albanian, Arabic, Azari, Basaa, Bete, Bulgarian, Cherokee, Chinese, Cipher, Cyrillic, Dutch, English (American & standard), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Samoan, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Transvaalian, Turkish, etc. Advertising and visual material are deliberately kept out. In close cooperation with the Research Centre of Artists’ Publications / Archive for small Press & Communication (ASPC) in the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen (D), GAGARIN features a regular column with an index of artists’ publications, texts and interviews which have appeared worldwide.GAGARIN takes a specific editorial stance inspired by the following quote by John Baldessari (°1939 LA): “Talking about art simply is not art. Talk can be art, but then it’s not talking about art”. This statement is an excerpt from his answer to question 110: “What are the dangers about too much verbalization about art? What does too much mean? What kind of people fear verbalization? Can a person who wants to appreciate works of art escape verbalization entirely?” The questions for the interview (by Meg Cranston) were taken from Lester D. Longman’s book “911 Questions in Art”‘ (William C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1950). Which of the 911 questions were to be asked was determined by throwing dices. The interview was published in its entirety in J

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