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MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
Issue No. 2 | Summer 2012
MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
Issue No. 2 | Summer 2012
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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LETTERS
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CONTRIBUTORS
Vincent Keith’s photographic essay on four men enjoying a forest
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WOODSMEN
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SINGING FICTIONS
Craig Calhoun’s un-tethered collages explore form and inner meaning
Juan Antonio Siverio’s compelling painting draws you in
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MIRANDO A LA GOMERA
Thought provoking portraits in stunning Korean landscapes by Blue Rain
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MOVING NAKED IN NATURE
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SLEEPING
David Goldenberg explores peace and vulnerability in a north London park
Manel Ortega’s beautiful and considered Landscapes
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LANDSCAPES
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THERAPY
Jason Carr uses his painting to heal
Vincent Keith reveals a trickier subject than he at first thought
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ON PHOTOGRAPHING TREES
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WITHIN NATURE
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UN|NATURAL
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REFRACTED
Kit Perren takes us back to his childhood haunts
Not only will Nature overcome, Jon Eland shows us we can’t do better
The conclusion of of Roger Thomas’s screenplay
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INFRACTIONS
Jérôme Oren goes where he isn’t meant to be and finds himself
Our anonymous music expert reviews three new albums
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MUSIC REVIEWS
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AS CLOSE TO NATURE AS I WANT TO BE
Not everyone likes the outdoors, Bobshaw Pete creates another landscape
Kevin Sonnichsen and Jeffrey Henderson explain the genesis of a film
Manel Ortega’s primeval landscapes and forms
Kevin Leadingham discusses The Hidden Structure of Beauty
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FINDING PINTAURO ROAD
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WITHIN NATURE
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ARCHITECTURE
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BIOSPHERA
Conrado Rafael Maleta connects us with nature and the universe
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HOMO ARBUS
Jéren and Pat Malo collaborate with a burnt tree to tell the story of a man
David Goldenberg reminds us of the fleeting sense of summer
Refracted, Continued
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THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER
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REFRACTED
Our third issue is already in the works...
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RELATIONSHIPS
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Editor
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Contributing Editors
Bobshaw Pete (
bobshawpete@gmail.com
)
Craig Calhoun (
cjrc24@yahoo.com
); Jason Carr (
Jason.Carr@londongraphics.co.uk
)
Jon Eland (
butilikeitphoto@gmail.com
); Jeffrey Henderson (
sfjeph@gmail.com
)
Kevin Leadingham (
kevin_leadingham@hotmail.com
)
Conrado Rafael Maleta (
conrado.maletah@gmail.com
); Pat Malo (
live4love06@gmail.com
)
Andrius Norkus (
nuotraukos.norkus@gmail.com
); Jérôme Oren (
jeren@orange.fr
)
Manel Ortega (
info@modusphotostudio.co.uk
); Kit Perren
(kit.perren@gmail.com)
Luis Saenz (
luissaenz@me.com
);Juan Antonio Siverio (
juanantoniosiverio@gmail.com
)
Kevin Sonnichsen (
simonbear1@aol.com
); Roger Thomas
(rogerthomas9@aol.com)
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Celebrating masculine art and
the men who create it
Welcome to the second edition of Mascular Magazine. We are
very please to be building on the extremely positive response
we had to our launch issue. Based on the feedback we’ve had
and the thousands of downloads of the magazine, it would
appear that Mascular Magazine has struck a chord. Our read-
ers enjoyed the broadly diverse selection of works we included
as well as the opportunity to better understand the artists
who created them.
We decided to construct the second edition of Mascular
Magazine around the theme of nature. Somehow the natural
world seemed to be making itself known this past spring -
showing us the extremes... The natural world inspired our
artists, and most of them created new works specifically for
the Magazine. That is perhaps the greatest compliment we
could hope to have. So what have these men been up to over
the summer?
Woodsmen
was inspired by a long tradition of pairing the
human form in a natural setting. The theme is explored in the
earliest photos through the war years, the hippy experiment
through to Bruce Webber’s idyllic
Bear Lake.
I decided to up-
date the theme and introduce a modern quality to it. I wasn’t
searching for a long lost age of innocence and freedom in my
photos. Rather, I wanted to evoke the electricity and beauty
of the modern male form having fun in or simply enjoying a
beautiful natural setting.
Discovering Craig Calhoun’s un-tethered exploration of form
and visual poetry was very exciting. He would have us believe
that everything is a bit of an accident, and that nothing he
does is planned or deliberate. What I see is a brave approach
to experimenting and deft use of composition that combine
to express a unique vision. In
Singing Fictions,
Calhoun makes
us consider loneliness. He creates familiar spaces, places and
environments with elements like a windowsill or shower door,
but they aren’t comforting. There’s a lot in each one of his
beautiful images, and the more I look, the more I am confront-
ed with uncomfortable truths.
Spanish Born Manel Ortega selected a location and model to
create a stunning primeval world. This world is profoundly
organic, overgrown and natural. Into it, Ortega introduces a
sinuous masculine form. He is born out of this environment.
Pure, strong and primal. I love the timeless quality of this
series. Ortega’s technical skill subtly reveals detail and form
beautifully.
Kit Perren was lucky enough to grow up in the countryside.
His childhood spent in familiar woods. In
Within Nature
Perren
rediscovers the landscapes of his childhood. As a grown man,
he takes us to the fields and forests he grew up in. We can
picture the youthful Perren in the shade of the trees, and now
as a man, the peace he derives from the natural surrounds he
knows so well.
Jason Carr explains that his painting is a form of
Therapy.
A
study in semiotics, namely bulls and birds inform and inhabit
his paintings . These elements link his works to universal
themes that transcend culture and time, though his paintings
have a spare and urgent feel to them. Can you see in them his
efforts to work out his issues?
David Goldenberg was inspired by the park near his home in
north London - a place he visits often and loves. It’s a place
where he can gather his thoughts and get away from it all. In
Sleeping,
he considers themes around isolation, vulnerability
and peace - all within a setting that evokes the vastness of
the natural world and contrasts it with the smallness of the
individual.
In his highly original self-portraits, Jerome Oren’s vision of
nature comes through loud and clear. It’s not an inviting place.
In this environment, he is exposed. He is laid bare. He inter-
jects himself into places he does not belong, where he is not
allowed or welcome. Oren’s ‘nature’ is not beautiful or green.
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Man’s effect on his natural surroundings is felt through his
compositions. His is not a romantic view of nature. Even so, we
see beauty, humour and character in his self portraits.
In a second body of work, Oren collaborates with his partner
Pat
Malo
to create a pictorial story. A surreal story that blurs
the lines between humanity and nature, man and tree and in-
dustrial and pastoral. The principal characters in the first part
of the story (you can see the rest of the story on Oren’s Flickr
page) involves a young man and a dead tree.
Bobshaw Pete’s delightful series made me smile the moment
I saw it. He’s taken “animals” in the form of his little figurines
and set them in landscapes sculpted out of the human form.
His skillful use of depth of field and composition impart a
dreamlike quality to his photographs. They are, in a word,
beautiful.
I have been following Blue Rain’s work ever since I discovered
it five years ago. He creates poetic nude portraits within his
native Korean landscapes. His forms range from energetic and
dynamic to subdued and full of loneliness. At first glance we
are attracted by the forms and beautiful surroundings. The
landscapes themselves are stunning. But Blue Rain lives in
a country where his sexual identity is a source of shame. He
creates these
images, in a sense, to confront his having to hide
who he really is. The love he shares with his partner, as seen in
some of his other work, is sensitive, sensual and beautiful, but
must remain hidden and anonymised. In that respect, these
photos belie an incredible sadness.
Architect Kevin Leadingham appeared in the first edition of
Mascular Magazine, but as a model in the photo series “A
Portrait of Intimacy.”
This time Kevin gives us a master-class in
the key elements that inform what he considers to be great
architecture, and for Leadingham, great architecture starts
with rules and proportions taken right out of the natural
world. His series “The
Hidden Structure of Beauty”
he concen-
trates on four themes and effectively shows how they work
together in the design process. He’s presented his essay in an
engaging way with the help of photographer Andrius Norkus.
Kevin Sonnichsen and Jeffrey Henderson have submitted an
essay with accompanying photographs that show how a pow-
erful reaction to a landscape became the genesis for a film
project,
Pintauro Road.
Pintauro Road’s link to nature extends
beyond Sonnichsen’s encounter with a fog filled valley. In fact,
it’s as if it were the fourth character in the film. Pintauro Road
is a raw and compelling observation of a tangle of relation-
ships brought to a head by a death and the California coast.
We are delighted to have the beautiful photography and
conceptual poetry of Conrado Raphael Maleta. Rather than
contrast man and his form with natural surroundings, he blurs
the lines. His photos show a man trying to commune with
nature, to be a part of it or indeed to be one with it. The vast-
ness of it all seems so hard to capture and the natural world
is made of so many and differing elements, where is one to
begin? Maleta doesn’t concentrate on distinctions or limita-
tion. His vision of nature is full of potential, communication
and a sort of inter-connectedness that links all living things
from the smallest particle to the stars.
Finally,
in his second submission to the Magazine,
The Last
Days of Summer,
David Goldenberg presents us with a playful
and intimate portrait of two men enjoying the fading light of
the end of this season. Is it a metaphor of some kind?
So, there’s a lot to see, read, think about and digest in our
second edition. The artists who contributed to the maga-
zine have clearly made the best of this summer. If you find
anything in the magazine particularly interesting or thought
provoking, or if you would like to explore these themes more
with the artists, please feel free to reach out to them. Contact
details are all to be found on page 3. Don’t forget the Maga-
zine is interactive with tons of links that will take you to more
amazing content.
Like the artists who have contributed, Mascular Magazine
craves feedback - so please write to us with comments, sug-
gestions and views. For those of you interested in contributing
to Mascular Magazine, the next issue will explore
Relation-
ships.
The deadline for submissions is November 12. Go to
page 173 for more details.
I hope you enjoy the latest edition of Mascular Magazine.
Vincent Keith
Summer, 2012
Juan Antonio Siverio’s
Mirando a la Gomera
invites us to enter
and become a part of the scene he has painted. The familiarity
and warmth, the colours all of them work together to compel
us forward and to share the gaze of his subjects. But there’s
something that makes me hold back, and rather than join
in the spectacle, to contemplate the figures in the painting
themselves. Are they lovers, father and son, strangers? What
will happen next? This tiny moment in a scene that is played
out every day is at once familiar and full of potential. Perhaps
Siverio’s trick is to provide us with various clues but to let us
conjure up the crime.
Vincent Keith discusses his approach to photographing trees.
Something that at first glance is such an easy thing to do
throws up some interesting challenges all the same. Trees
have enough in them to be worthy of portraiture, but captur-
ing the character of a tree in a two dimensional surface has
kept him striving for what may not be achievable.
Jon Eland has been a supporter of Mascular Magazine ever
since it was first being considered. An accomplished pho-
tographer and master of composition, we were interested to
see what he would make of the “Nature” theme. Not one to
disappoint, he’s taken the subject and turned it inside out. In
Un|Natural
he explores man’s efforts to control, codify, cata-
logue, pacify and repackage nature into more palatable and
comforting portions. His work shows us at once the futility
in that endeavor and how poor we are at imitating the real
thing.
Roger Thomas’s screen play
Refracted
appeared in the first
edition of Mascular Magazine, and we are happy to present
the conclusion to this meditation on relationships, loss and
self-realization. Thomas has surprises in store for you.
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