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Exciting new projects are finally seeing the light of day over here at IC. We are very happy to announce a new Media Partnership with our friend and longtime supporter Toto Gonzalez and his company Fabrika located in Miami.

Iniciativa Colectiva is now in charge of curating Fabrika's new Art Showcase section in the new website which went live just last week. Visit fabrikalink.com and check it out!

We are also working on organizing a new exhibition along with one of Miami's major Art organizations. We will let you know as soon as everything is ready and don't be surprised if you have participated previously with IC, to be called upon to participate on that project.

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ON THE COVER‘Éclipse’ by Geraldine Georges

Alejandro Mila .............................................................. Spain

Ana Flavia Dias ........................................................... Brazil

Andre Brito ................................................................... Brazil

Annamaria Prezuiso ..................................................... Italy

Cheukman ..................................................Hong Kong/UK

David Habben ....................................................................US

Dondi Fernandez ............................................... Phillipines

Erin Smith ................................................................Australia

Geraldine Georges ................................................Belgium

Justin S. Meyers ................................................................US

Mark Webber .....................................................................UK

Merdanchik ..................................................................Russia

Massimiliano di Lauro .................................................. Italy

Max Montano .................................................................. Italy

Nicole Andujar .................................US/Dominican Rep.

Pablo Alfieri ..........................................................Argentina

Palma Allen .........................................................................US

Raphaël Vicenzi .....................................................Belgium

Trevor Brown......................................................................US

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David Habben __________________18

Geraldine Georges _____________ 36

Raphael Vicenzi _______________ 64

Alejandro Mila _________________ 09

Ana Flavia Dias _________________12

Dondi Fernandez _______________13

Erin Smith ____________________ 30

Justin S. Meyers _______________ 42

Mark Webber _________________ 43

Massimiliano di Lauro ___________ 46

Merdanchik ___________________ 48

Nicole Andujar ________________ 54

Pablo Alfieri __________________ 57

Art Digest ____________________ 63

Andre Brito ___________________ 75

Annamaria Preziuso ____________ 80

Palma Allen ___________________ 82

Cheukman ____________________ 85

Trevor Brown _________________ 89

Max Montano _________________ 93

Credits _______________________ 94

‘AL NORTE DEL NORTE’ BY ALEjANDRO miLÀ iC09

'DEsEquiLiBRiO' BY ALEjANDRO miLÀ iC 11iC10

‘hOO hOO hOO’ BY DONDi fERNANDEz iC13iC12 'COExisTENCE' BY ANA fLAviA DiAs

‘sEA mONsTER' BY DONDi fERNANDEz iC15iC14 'fOuNTAiN Of YOuTh' BY DONDi fERNANDEz

iC16 'misTOw fOg vs misTOw OCTupus' BY DONDi fERNANDEz ‘LET mE spEAk, LiAR' BY DONDi fERNANDEz iC17

7. how do you see yourself five years from now? how do you see your artwork evolv-ing from now? I would love to do physically larger work. My current work is usually so small; I’d love to create work that just envelops the viewer. I hope my work is always evolving because as soon as it stops, that’s when I’ve lost my desire. On an evolutionary scale, I’m still down in the pond, I can’t wait until I grow some legs and get into the forest.

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T1. what type of medium do you work with and explain how you use it? I try not to limit myself to one me-dium, but my default is pen and ink. Invariably, it ends up in the comput-er getting additional color or edits. Lately, I’ve been into more sculptur-al work and painting on objects, like skate decks. I’ve also just bought my first Munny doll and can’t wait to get started on it.

2. what was your main interest in producing this artwork, or is there a statement you wanted to convey? Its funny, I’ve always thought of art-ist statements as desperate acts. Think of it as a relationship; if things are going well, you don’t have to discuss it. Once you have to define that relationship verbally, it usually means you failed to communicate properly. Similarly, if your artwork is successful, you shouldn't have to tell people what you're on about. The message of my personal work is usually an expression of how I see the world, unique, engaging and, at times, terrifying.

3. Tell us about your creative process, do you have any rituals, routines you follow? how does your artwork come together? There isn’t one specific thing I always do; my process is the result of my daily habits. Being religiously minded, I try to include ef-forts in my day to connect to a sense of the Divine. How I interpret that usually finds its way into my work. The piece shown here of the child in the car surrounded by flame-headed creatures is a good example of that. Other works may not show as much of that effort, but I hope its always there to a degree. As far as objects, I usually find dif-ferent papers to work with and the finest pointed pens I can scrounge up.

4. how did you get started with your artis-tic career? I’ve always drawn, but it wasn’t until I got into my under-grad work that I realized the choice I had made. Once you see everyone else with an accounting book and there you are with a sketchbook and paint on your hands, you have to come to terms with what you are. On hard days, I think about that accounting book… and how I’d like to draw all over it.

5. what would you say is one of your great-est accomplishments? I think persevering as an artist is an ac-complishment itself. The real praise for that goes to the family and friends that have supported me though. With so much of life shouting at me to give up, it’s my sup-porter’s voices of encouragement that have come through the loudest.

6. where does your inspiration come from? Or is there any particular movement, artwork or artist you find yourself influenced by? Inspiration’s a hard one to pin down. I feel I’ve been really blessed to see things differ-ently and have the ability to express that visually. My personal work is definitely in-spired by the principle that things aren’t al-ways what they seem and that there’s more to this life than we let ourselves believe. The artists that have influenced me the most are the ones whose artwork looks nothing like mine. Classically, I can’t get enough of Bot-ticelli or Caravaggio. I’m usually more influ-enced by someone’s process or motivation. It’s so much easier to create art in our time and I find that really influences the quality of what we see. Think of the difficulties of the early scriptural artists, illuminating sa-cred texts. Imagine applying hairlines of gold leaf by candlelight. It’s just brilliant. That kind of dedication is hard to find to-day, but there are many artists that embody that spirit. I’d like to become one of them.

DAVID HABBEN

DAVID HABBEN

27 YEARS OLD • USA

MAGIK7INTERVIEW FEATURED ARTIST/MAY/08

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T1. what type of medium do you work with and explain how you use it?I make collages and I draw on these using ink; then, I scan and clean up these with Photoshop or Illustrator. It's a well-balanced mix between these medium but I try to keep in mind "handmade"; I don't want to exclu-sively work with computer's effects.

2. what was your main interest in producing this artwork, or is there a statement you wanted to convey?At the beginning I made these art-works for myself, like a hobby to empty my head after work now nothing has changed except that now it's my job.

3. Tell us about your creative pro-cess, do you have any rituals, rou-tines you follow? how does your artwork come together? First I put together some pictures I have cut out, like a puzzle. After that I try to create a certain emotion with my collages and drawings I use magazines, my own pictures, or I collaborate with photographers.

4. how did you get started with your artis-tic career? I began as a graphic designer in several ad-vertising agencies. After 7 years I quit to work at home as a freelance illustrator

5. what would you say is one of your great-est accomplishments? To be free, work at home, to be my own boss and do what I re-ally love to do: illustration.

6. where does your inspiration come from? Or is there any particular movement, artwork or artist you find yourself influenced by? I find my inspiration in everyday life, all

around me, also into the music. I can't work without music, my favorites are Aurevoir Simonne, CocoRosie, Radiohead, Fran-çoiz Breut, Ms. John Soda… I really love some great artists like Danielle Buetti, In-grid Baars, Mondino, Egon Schiele, Stefano Ricci, Audrey Kawasaki, Mark Ryden… and many, many others

7. how do you see your artwork evolving from now?I don't know yet, but i would like to try new mix media maybe...

GÈRALDINE GEROGES30 YEARS OLD • BELGIUM

MAGIK 7 INTERVIEW/

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1. what type of medium do you work with and explain how you use it? I work mainly with Photoshop for the drawing part, Illustrator for the typography and finally water-colors to tie everything up into a new illustration.

2. what was your main interest in producing this artwork, or is there a statement you wanted to convey? I just want to express ideas that are dear to me. I also try to con-vey a certain form of social critique. We’re definitely going to a cultural death as a whole so I am doing my best to make it look good and ugly while at the same time naively hop-

ing that some people when watching my works will think twice at what is going on around them and inside of them.

3. Tell us about your creative process, do you have any rituals, routines you follow? how does your artwork come together?I try to come up with a good subject first or a good phrase that will start the illus-tration. I scan lots of stuff, create typogra-phy from old sources or make up new ones and dig the web for pictures. It can take a good while before an idea comes together, I scrape a lot of things. It would be easier

if I just did things for the sake of doing something looking good but lately with-out a strong desire behind the illustration it just go to waste.

4. how did you get started with your ar-tistic career? I stumbled upon it but the desire to make art was always there, I just took the long way around. I hope it will be a lasting career.

5. What would you say is one of your great-est accomplishments?I don’t know. I am super glad to have been included in the second Illusive book though. I did not think I’d ever be in it. On second thoughts I’d say to have built a strong rela-tionship with my wife and to have a kid.

6. Where does your inspiration come from? Or is there any particular movement, art-work or artist you find yourself influenced by? I read a lot of books, I go to Sott.net everyday to keep in touch with what’s real-ly going on in the world, I keep an eye open to new inspirations, I am really inspired by painters such as Anthony Micaleff or Illus-trators like werke.pl and Banksy off course. I do like many many other artists. I just picked the ones I had in my head.

7. How do you see your artwork evolving from now? I hope for stronger ideas with better imagery.

RAPHAËL VICENZI35 YEARS OLD • BELGIUM

MAGIK 7 INTERVIEW/

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