Fourth Door Review - Number 12 - The Bridge Between Issue

This edition includes in-depth theme features on Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui + the pioneering October Gallery and their Global African artist network; Neu’s Michael Rother and 50 years of Motorik, a themed feature section on Seaweed Bioneers, in design, art and architecture, Iceland’s volcano artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir, David Rothenberg’s underwater pond symphonies, and a new Materialise section, featuring folding paperwork of Kath Rose, and the sublime raku tiles of Vorarlberg’s Karak.

Content:

ArtScapes I - Ragna Róbertsdóttir – Iceland’s artist of fire and molten magma by Oliver Lowenstein
ArtScapes II – El Anatsui, October Gallery and its Global African artist networks –
Document Two: A special Book within a Book section

El Anatsui - In-depth feature with one of Africa’s highest profile artists – by Neil Thomson
Emergent October - from El Anatsui to LR Vandy: The October Gallery and Artists of Global Africa – by Chris Spring
Benchmarks – El Anatsui’s hi tech and hands on new works – by Oliver Lowenstein
El Anatsui’s wood sculpture work – by Yukiya Kawaguchi
October & Africa past to present – by October Gallery’s creative director - by Elisabeth Lalouschek
How October’s Gallery African Tranvangarde redefined the avant-garde future – by Oliver Lowenstein

Makeshift/Middleground I
The Paper Folding Art of Katherine Rose – by Jonathan Rose
Julia Lohmann – revolution in seaweed Biodesign - by Oliver Lowenstein
Karak: Vorarlberg’s raku tile makers - by Oliver Lowenstein

Middleground/Materialise II: Seaweed, Clay, Paper Seaweed –

Design Bioneers surf the Blue World - by Oliver Lowenstein
Denmark’s Seaweed Island: Laesø - by Oliver Lowenstein
Seaweed’s Blue Wave comes ashore - by Oliver Lowenstein
Ranti Bam’s video claywork by Oliver Lowenstein
Paperback’s Story - by Oliver Lowenstein
Where Are You a Local? Book art without borders - by Oliver Lowenstein
Brighton’s Elms – surviving and thriving by Alister Peters

Margins of Music
Michael Rother: from Motorik to Metronome – by Oliver Lowenstein
Pond Life – David Rothenberg’s underwater concertos for ponds

Digitalis
De War – Holland, home of the first grassroots Fab Lab – by Diana Wildschut and Harmen Zijp
Biotechnology and the Blue Flower – by Anna Demutriu and Alex May
Data Driven – Adam Niemann on Augmented Reality

Dreams of Consciousness (DoC)
Sensing the Body: Rosalyn Driscoll on the senses in the arts
Crafting a Philosophy of the Jug – by Daniela Zimmermann

Wordwatch
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
Death By Landscape by Elvia Wilk – reviewed by Bryony Bodimeade
On Slowness by Lutz Koepnik – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
Time Song by Julia Blackburn – reviewed by Peter Cole
Hassan Fathy: Earth and Utopia by Viola Bertini and Salma Samar Damluji – reviewed by Rowland Keable
Building with Fire by Ray Meeker – reviewed by Oliver Lowenstein
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tazanaki– Re-read by Oliver Lowenstein