Le Dictateur #01 Artist-Book

90,00

Description

A new luxurious magazine of images (200 colour pages, 40 cm, soft case in sealed numbered cardboard box, leaflets, cut pages…), edited by Federico Pepe and Pierpaolo Ferrari, collecting exclusive works by international artists (including selected images from Maurizio Cattelan’s Permanent Food project).

1500 copies limited edition, numbered.
published in 2006
28,3 x 40 cm (softcover, soft case in sealed cardboard box)
224 pages (171 colour ill., 7 leaflets, 2 cut pages)

The plain cardboard outer box has some storage wear and is not sealed anymore, but the book itself is in like-new condition.

“Le Dictateur” is Federico Pepe, a self-proclaimed tyrant who grabbed full power and legitimized himself to begin an ambitious publishing project with the collaboration of Vice Dictateur Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Le Dictateur is the highest expression of the dominion of personal will: the magazine is to be thought of as a state, a space where artists, photographers, fashion world protagonists live together, arbitrarily selected and invited. Some are famous, some are extremely famous, some are totally unknown: they earned their citizenship because they have been wanted there, and they each became dictators of their own pages. In total freedom and lack of rules they were called to present a new or custom project for “Le Dictateur”: the result is a magazine with an extreme spirit.

Le Dictateur is a proposition, not a critique: Le Dictateur is not very fond of the sophisms of those who use thought and words as alibi and not as support to action. Confrontation, dialogues can only exist after one’s creative freedom has been freely expressed.”Freedom of choice and movement is fundamental. For certain things—Le Dictateur affirms—democracy is useless, it actually weakens in proportion to how many people have decisional power”. Therefore, to maintain the vitality of one’s creation at its highest, it needs to be as personal and subjective as possible. It must not undergo the gauntlet of suggestions, hints, evaluations, amputations. Le Dictateur is a figure which has power, but also for a kind of philanthropy: people want to rebel to the authority principle, but when someone actually takes responsibilities for all the decisions, they are happier and quieter.