LARMAGAZINE was an interactive magazine in app format focusing on international contemporary art. It started in 2009 as a PDF hosted on the issuu platform. Initially conceived as a strategy to better showcase the portfolios produced and uploaded to the LivingArtRoom website (the predecessor project aimed at uploading complete portfolios to connect with various industry agents such as gallery owners, curators, promoters, etc.), it later evolved to an interactive app magazine. This expanded the scope beyond featuring artists solely from the website to encompass talents from all corners of the world. It allowed me to connect with several of my idols and discover incredible new artists whom I might not have encountered otherwise. In this groundbreaking initiative, we infused interactive features and movement into the covers, included numerous images for each artist by incorporating photo galleries, and even integrated interactive games, each somehow commenting on the main theme of each edition. For instance, for "Censorship vs. Opportunism," we developed a hangman game where users had to guess the names of contemporary artists whose freedom and lives had been threatened at some point in history due to their remarks. In the "Paranormal in Art" edition, we created an interactive Ouija board, and for the "Ephemeral in Art" edition, we designed a kind of kaleidoscope that responded to the iPad's gyroscope. In total, we published 38 complete editions, concurrently releasing a Pocket edition optimized for viewing on smartphones. In these editions, we divided the content into weekly segments. We were invited to showcase the magazine at major fairs such as ArtBasel, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARTBO, Zona MACO, ARCOmadrid, ArteBA, La Otra, and Odeon in Bogotá. In the final stage, we decided to transition the content and assemble the magazine as a website for greater reach. However, the costs proved to be overwhelming, and the web format didn't quite capture the essence as before. Then came the pandemic in 2020, prompting the decision to close down. The intention is to gradually build an archive of what it was. It will undoubtedly take time. Meanwhile, I'll be sharing the list of artists we featured, along with the covers and themes. I'll also be posting the best articles and interviews.
LARMAGAZINE
Featured Artists: Banksy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Eugenio Merino, Máximo González, Danh Vō, Steve Lambert, Guillaume Bijl and Christian Jankowski.
Capitalism
Cover by Eugenio Merino
Featured Artists: Olafur Eliasson, Michael Reynolds, David Maisel, Melanie Smith, Alberto Baraya, Carolina Caycedo, Ursula Biemann, John Gerrard, Lothar Baumgarten and Tania Ximena
Nature
Cover by Olafur Eliasson
Featured Artists: Santiago Sierra, Packard Jennings, Johanna Unzueta, Carlos Lara, Scott Sternbach, and Nicolás Paris.
Work
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Cover by Santiago Sierra
Featured Artists: Beatriz González, Valentina D’Amaro, Esteban Peña Parga, Stephen Baker, Hai-Hisn Huang, Loie Hollowell and Frank Nietsche.
This Painting II
Cover by Beatriz González
Featured Artists: Urs Fischer, James Rielly, Eric Yahnker, Sarah Cain, Peggy Franck, Hulda Guzmán, Jennie Ottinger and Willie Wayne Smith.
This Painting I
Cover by Urs Fischer
Artist Portfolios: Jennet Thomas, Yoshua Okon, Kim Laughton, Natalie Bookchin, Lu Yang, Super Future Kid and Oblinof.
Crazy World
Cover by Jennet Thomas
Featured Artists: Stelarc, Amalia Ulman; Leonel Moura; James Bridle; Amy Suo Wu; Mario Klingemann; John Craig; Marija Bozinovska and the collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Disruptive Technology
Cover by Stelarc
Featured Artists: Liam Young Olga Mikh Fedorova Maxim Zhestkov, Shawn Maximo, Alysia Davis and Iván Manríquez
The New
Cover by Liam Young
Featured artists: Zach Blas, Leonardo Selvaggio, Andrés Serrano, Kurt Ralske, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Egor Tsvetkov, Shinseungback Kimyonghun
Facial Recognition
Cover by Andres Serrano
Featured Artists: Ale de la Puente, Gilberto Esparza, Joselo Ortiz, Paul Prudence, Ariel Guzik, Ouchhh, Eduardo Kac
Scientific Thought in Art
and Vice Versa
Cover by Eduardo Kac
Featured Artists: Janet Echelman, Berndnaut Smilde, Theo Jansen, Wolfgang Buttress, Edoardo Tresoldi, Anthony Howe, Didier Fiuza Faustino
Structures beyond the imaginable
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Cover by Janet Echelman
Featured Artists: Jaume Plensa, Valeria Castro, Barry X Ball, Nick Cave, Caroline Wells Chandler, Joakim Ojanen, Gregory Jacobsen
Human Figure
Cover by Nick Cave
Guest Editor: Doreen A Ríos
Featuderd Artists: Gibrann Morgado, Diego Ortega, Luis Antonio Tovar, Salvador Loza, Luis Nava, Mónica López, Miguel Ángel Salazar
Antimateria
Cover by Salvador Loza
Featured Artists: teamLab, Alfredo Jaar, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Miguel Ventura, Jiro Suzuki, Adrian Regnier, Mayra Silva, Oded Ezer.
Language And Technology
Cover by teamLab
Featured Artists: Oscar Santillan, Corinne Botz, Brian Butler, Paul Bogaers, Marcos Castro, Elizabeth Moran, Alejandro Zertuche
Paranormal
Cover by Brian Butler
Featured Artists: Galia Eibenschutz, Roberta Marroquín, Tania Ximena, Héctor Zamora, María José Arjona, Martha Wilson
The Power of the Ephemeral
Cover by María José Arjona
Featured Artists: León & Cociña, Veronique Chapuy, Kasia Strek, Patricia Piccinini, Mariela Sancari, Gabriel de la Mora
Family
Cover by Patricia Piccinini
Featured Artists: Grazia Toderi, Sabine Kacunko, Catherine Bagnall, Elias Björn and Rúrí
Peaceful Contexts
Cover by Catherine Bagnall
Featured Artists: Mudi Yahaya, Enrique Jezik, Adonis Flores, Carlos Aguirre, Roberto Visani, Shaul Schwarz, Tito Rivas. Además, and Conflict Kitchen.
Violent Contexts
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Cover by Mudi Yahaya
Featured Artists: Edgar Orlaineta, Anibal Catalán, Amilcar Rivera, Karen Dana, Marlon de Azambuja, Francesco Merletti, Pablo Cotama, Julia Carrillo Escalera
Revivals. Avant Garde
Cover by Francesco Merletti
Featured Artists: Björn Melhus, Maurycy Gomulicki, Munir Fatmi, Hrair Sarkissian, Graciela Guerrero
Censorship Vs. Opportunism
Cover Björn Melhus
Featured Artists: Diego Piñeros, Santiago Forero, Renato Garza, Isabel Rojas, Javier Guitierrez and Emilio Rangel.
Sense of humor in art
Cover by Renato Garza
Featured Artists: Mauricio Limón, David Gremard Romero, Jorge Carrera, and Sofía Ayarzagoitia.
Snobbism. Communication in arts
Cover by Sofía Ayarzagoitia
Featured Artists: Alejandra Alarcón, Alejandra Baltazares, Claudia López Terroso, Floria González, Juan Carlos Delgado, and Juan Antonio Sánchez - Rull
A different kind of feminism
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Cover by Alejandra Baltazares
Featured Artist : Adriana Salazar, María García-Ibañez, Carlos Castro, Mateo Pizarro, Marisol Maza and Jimena Rincón
Best of pt.2
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Cover by Carlos Castro
Featured Artists: Alejandra España, Horacio Quiroz, Jimena Schlaepfer, Julio Pastor, Rodrigo Imaz, Sofía Echeverri
Best of Pt.1
Cover by Horacio Quiroz
Pending
The goal of professional art
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Cover by Floria González
Featured artists: Alejandro Cartagena, Maria Fernanda Barrero, Mateo Pizarro and Claudia Lopez Terroso
Interchanges between Mexico and Colombia
Cover by Alejandro Cartagena
Pending
Non-capitals of art
Cover by David Gremard Romero
Pending
Artistic references and processes
Cover by Adriana Salazar
Pending
Celebrating two years
Cover by Omar Rosales
Pending
Untitled
Cover by Carlos Castro
Pending
Untitled
Cover by Raúl Cerrillo
Pending
Untitled
Cover by Francesca Dalla Benetta
Pending
Untitled
Cover Isak Kanarek by Floria González
Pending
Untitled
Cover by Rochelle Costi
