MAGMA ISSUE 1 / MANIFESTO

Magma revives the tradition of the great twentieth century revues d’art. Conceived as a forum for artistic expression, artists and writers collaborate and create together. Magma is an invitation to participate in a dialogue that transcends the usual boundaries of the art world. It is a meeting place. Each artist’s contribution is an original or an unseen work, created for the publication or published for the first time. The journal brings together humans from different generations and backgrounds — artists, photographers, writers, directors, sculptors, architects. They have a free hand, both in form and content, to address a subject and build a narrative by producing a unique and original piece.

Magma has no theme.
Magma takes no position.
Magma belongs to no community.
Magma adheres to no principle.
Magma cares nothing for the boundaries between genres, disciplines or schools.

Magma is a collision of eras and a coalition of styles.

Magma brings together artists of different generations and different backgrounds: photographers, writers, visual artists, sculptors, poets, architects. It offers them absolute freedom to express their vision without mediation or constraint.

In these days of digital atomization, Magma is a call for contact.

When everything seems to be a mere click away, Magma offers the long view of annual publication.

No machine-based artificial intelligence, only genuine artistic sensibility.

Magma is a timeless object in an age when everything conspires to situate artists strictly within the zeitgeist. An object for dialogue, when everything seeks to shut them away in their echo chamber.

Magma is a direct object without a complement. It gives you, readers, whoever you are and wherever you come from, direct access to these artists and their works.

Magma reveals its whole through its parts.

Magma is not a journal but a metonym.

— Paul Olivennes