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STRIP-BOOK #1we become what we see issuesummer 2014What surrounds us makes us what we are.What we see shapes our mind, our heart, our body.Get ready to explore this indissoluble, alchemich relation. 5





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photography Martina Spagnoli

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12 | MAURIZIO DI IORIO14 | MAGNUS GJOEN20 | GIULIA CAIRA24 | SILVA + CEMIN32 | BOUKE DE VRIES38 | GUILLERMO TURELL YARUR42 | STEFANIA PAPARELLI50 | BERNHARD HENDICK54 | CLAUDIO CASSANO62 | ALESSANDRO CASAGRANDE72 | NEWSHINE82 | FABIO COSTI’88 | SONJA GUTSCHERA & LEIF HENRIK OSTHOFF 11

MAURIZIO DI IORIO 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I have worked as a copywriter in the past, a job that has left a sign on me forever. I have always worked for ideas and concepts, I’ve never been under the charm of the moment. When I started I was more instictive, lately I’m moving toward a genre of photography that is the result of a precise reasoning. My inspiration is everything contemporary, from food to object. My language may be aestheticizing, but I must clarify that I have no interested to what is beautiful just for beauty’s sake. 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? It’s a fault that however coincides with the main characteristic of my personality: I am intolerant towards what is not done well. And it’s a form of intolerance I feel towards myself as well. Therefore it’s a fault that has a positive side as well. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? I have never aspired to happiness. I think it’s silly to aim to it; it’s a bit like when you want to fall in love with someone at all costs. The happiest moments in my life are those I lived when I didn’t think I was happy. It happens to everything, I believe. My idea of misery: to work for necessity without realizing what we like. 4. What is you present state of mind? I am in a “restless” period, but not in a negative sense; I believe that at the basis of creativity there’s always some restlessness. For me, now is a moment very rich in suggestions and I pour almost all of them in the photography I realize. 5. What is your obsession? I’m a man filled with obsessions. I should write a long list. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? A writer. I’ve always been fascinated by writing, which to me is the highest form of art. There’s a sentence by David Foster Wallace that explains my idea of writing and literature: “I don’t know what you are thinking or what it feels like to be inside your head, and you don’t know what it feels like to be inside mine. In literature I think in way we manage to jump beyond this wall.” 7. What do you love most in the world? Everything. 8. What do you love less in the world? Almost everything. 9. STRIP for you is? A nice word, whose meaning I like. And also a nice magazine to which I gladly contribute. 10. We become what we see? We don’t become what we see; we ARE what we see. It’s not a negligible difference: because it pertains to the ability to watch and nobody really changes following what he or she sees.12

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MAGNUS GJOEN 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? Absolutely everywhere. I do a lot of research- constantly, either from books, online or anywhere I go. I guess I approach a new project as one would do when designing a fashion collection. Although without any deadlines. Once I’ve hit on something that inspires me, I just continue to search and find more and more inspiration. It’s my need to dig deeper and learn more about anything that might inspire me. 2-.What is your main characteristic and your main fault? I’m one of those people who has to do everything myself. I find it extraordinary that very often when I don’t, the simplest things can go wrong. It’s because people don’t think the same, and expecting them to is quite ridiculous and part of the beauty of being human. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Happiness is that moment I feel when I’ve just discovered something new or found a way of completing a project that I have been deliberating over for many months. I don’t feel miserable very often, and if I do, I’m certainly not going to moan about it. I simply do something that will make me feel better. 4. What is you present state of mind? Stressed. I’m at the airport and although I travel all the time I always get super-stressed until I’m actually  sitting on the plane.  5. What is your obsession? Beauty. I find it everywhere, in the Uffizi gallery in Florence or on a urinal wall. You simply have to look at things from a different perspective. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Mickey Mouse in his younger years. 7. What do you love most in the world? Religion. How it has brought us some of the most amazing art, architecture and beauty. 8- What do you love less in the world? Religion. How religion has been used to start wars and massacred countless people.   9. STRIP for you is? Showing what is underneath the surface. Things are very often not what they seem if you peal back the layers. 10. We become what we see? Although not always so, the more one learns, reads, and sees the more enlightened one would hopefully become.14

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GIULIA CAIRA 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I’m working as a freelance artist since 1994 and my ispirations come from life, mine and yours... 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? Sincerity, in both cases. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Happiness is the perfect time. Misery is poverty and it is terrible. 4. What is you present state of mind? Disillusioned. 5. What is your obsession? I’m obsessed by the unfinished things, outstanding... 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Aomane, heroine of novel by 1Q84 by Murakami Aruki. 7. What do you love most in the world? Relationship with real people, real. Very rare. 8. What do you love less in the world? The resigned acceptance and passive of the injustice and arrogance of power… 9. STRIP for you is? Invite someone to dinner at my home. 10. We become what we see? We become what we are. If we are lucky, we become ourselves again...20

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SILVA+CEMIN 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? Our inspiration came from different backgrounds, and that’s the point. A film we watched, a sculpture we saw, a trip we got together… 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? Doing many things at same time can be both. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Happiness is creating and misery is being stuck. 4. What is your present state of mind? Thoughts in the higher ground to create something new and incredible for everyone. 5. What is your obsession? Expression+Creation. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Someone from the future in the present. 7. What do you love most in the world? Being free and healthy (in all meanings) to create and having the work being recognized. 8. What do you love less in the world? Selfishness. 9. STRIP for you is? Something you do with no fear and no repression. 10. We become what we see? If you want to see, you become.24

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BOUKE DE VRIES 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? While working as a ceramics restorer I started making objects inspired by broken ceramics that I find, unloved and discarded; rethinking them and giving them new life. 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? Perfectionism/control-freakism – simultaneously the best/worst characteristics. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? On the sofa cuddling the dog; being away from the dog. 4. What is your present state of mind? Looking forward. 5. What is your obsession? Working. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Wanting to be someone else is an illusion. 7. What do you love most in the world? Miles and Sonny. 8. What do you love less in the world? Bigots. 9. STRIP for you is? Sexy. 10. We become what we see? And we see what we become.32

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GUILLERMO TURELL YARUR 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I find inspiration in the reflection of myself in others. Those physical characteristics of mine that I recognize in others. In the darkness which lives in everyone of us. In nudity and sexuality. In nature and the universe, the mystery of beauty. I also find inspiration in religion, religious imagery and symbols, since this has been a huge part of upbringing. I also find inspiration in fashion as well as in old Hollywood female icons. 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? I think my main characteristic would be combining female and masculine characteristics. The idea of finding a mentality “between” woman and man, or of an entirely genderless mentality. My main fault its finding it hard to step outside of my own style. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? My idea of happiness is being free to create and experiment. Being completely myself and embracing my own faults. When I let things flow naturally and reach my inner self. My idea of misery is people controlling my life. People telling me what to do and judging everything I do. Living in somebody’s trap. 4. What is your present state of mind? My current state of mind is really variable. It goes from complete joy to the numbness of the heart. The constant battle with the ego. 5. What is your obsession? Barbra Streisand. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Barbra Streisand. 7. What do you love most in the world? I love music. I love feminine boys. 8. What do you love less in the world? Intolerance. I hate being jealous. I hate the ordinary. 9. STRIP for you is? STRIP is the real YOU. The soul of the person, the light within us. The artist behind the mask. 10. We become what we see? We become what we see. We are the creation of the things that surround us. Each one of us looks at things through different lenses. The details that attract me from something, are not the same ones for somebody else. That is what makes us different and unique.38

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STEFANIA PAPARELLI 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? Movies music books nature. 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? Keen and positive impatient. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? My family and my house in front of the beach  and curiosity to be without that. 4. What is your present state of mind? Conscious. 5. What is your obsession? Light. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? My mother. 7. What do you love most in the world? My family. 8. What do you love less in the world? Mosquito. 9. STRIP for you is? Freedom. 10. We become what we see? We grow and we become who we want  through our own  experience and decision.42

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BERNHARD HANDICK 1. Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I find my inspiration everywhere. 2. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? Ambitious, workaholic. The faults, the faults. 3. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Living peaceful with my family and just create. As a mixed media artist, you always has to fight for your rights. 4. What is your present state of mind? Happy to do what I always wish to do. I just only need to earn a bit more money, then everything would be fine. Nearly perfect. 5. What is your obsession? Creating and working. 6. If not yourself, who would you like to be? A bird. 7. What do you love most in the world? My girl, my family, my friends!!! 8. What do you love less in the world? Racism, stupid folk, people who hurts other people... 9. STRIP for you is? In your face with soul. 10. We become what we see? Eat this and that.50