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Magpie Magazine : Issue 4 (UK,2009)****
I used to be a visual artist mostly. This made my imagination more visual for a large part of my life, even when I read a lot of non fiction books and was into theoretical thinking also this was influenced and helped by visualisations like in the context of history. The development of theoretical consciousness also still was visualised by some guiding process of structures and shapes that still had significance for me. Even today when I listen to music visualisations occur. I often see what is happening in visual formats. What still is less understandable for me is how people stick with downloads nowadays. For direct-life energies based upon body beats and reactional noise, I can still understand. Acid Folk however needs to breath with life, with visualisations and colourful imaginations. I prefer to touch the artwork and to sense the sensitive world around it. But CD’s aren’t books with illustrations or full of photographs to illustrate these real things enough,. They are not enough associated or involved with clothing, with looks or with what people need more for it. What compensates a bit for me and shows more of this communal world behind it is Magpie magazine. It took me however up to edition four before I really checked it out.
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Magpie magazine is, according to edition four, “celebrating the new folk revolution in art, music and writing.” This helps. ...
Myspace related to the new folk people is a good tool and helps to be connected to familiar visions and ideas (for me it was one of the most successful ideas of the last few years to guide this process). Of course I also notice how certain mainstream music styles and people are only in it, like parasites, for their own purposes, not interested in discovering for instance a distinction between certain levels of creativity in life. Acid and New Folkies however are into art, true friendship, sensitive worlds, and vintage clothing, just because it looks humanly friendly.
(When I went to study in a small town, noticing how everybody was dressed there as if they could enter a football stadium or sport hall cafeteria every minute, I was criticised for not being modern enough because I wore coloured clothing, flower T-shirts or psychedelic colours as if I was the backward person and they were extremely modern, while they looked just boringly ordinary to me. I just wish there were more colours and styles or more variations than that. While I didn’t mind how people were dressed, like metalfreaks or generalised free time joggers they were able to make an overly easily made distinction without further signification).
The Acid Folkies have their own way of art. I was disappointed when I was confronted in Antwerp with the pretty empty-headed, uncreative, business-based-faking people narrowmindness of those who led the modern art departments, while it seemed they did not even seem to understand to what the modern art has evolved and why and what it’s purpose was. Today it has been stripped of many possible connections. But where is the heart of things, the concept of a deeper contributing vision, and especially, the human connection ? I could imagine a wonderful exhibition of all these wonderful artists and illustrators who are able to make that connection to add life, something real. This is not a hippie-faked world. This is only a return to reality and real people who felt a responsibility and patience for materials, forms and content, and even for aesthetics, and who found some connection whatsoever with other human beings, with nature, a cultivated achievement that still is available if people really wanted to share this. What a wonderful exhibition could be a meeting point of such artists and musicians, also nature should be involved to make it real. This magazine is luckily already some start to bring the myspace potential further to a real gathering place, a protected small collection of this on paper. Some of the artists are now hanging closer together with a general idea behind it. Well done !
Magpie magazine is a rather small, silk screened colour copy magazine, which looks lovely, a bit of an art object on its own. Recommended.
Besides illustrations, literature you can also find a few reviews of acid folk related artists.
