Marlaina Read, artist, puts together the perfect city, piece by piece, "made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them." Invisible City is an online art magazine taking its name from Italo Calvino’s seminal poetic novel (quoted) in which metropolises are mapped in pulsing sine-waves.
Similarly, interlocking ideas mapped around a theme form the basis of each issue. Marlaina says, "I love the idea of a place that exists only when described in a certain way – ephemeral ideas of places and spaces."**Haunted photos, cerebral art installations and tight little poetic snatches flow in from all corners of the globe, with instalment number four featuring Americans, Italians, Israelites, Germans, Australians and more.
The abstract may read a little like a Cultural Studies 101 primer – but each page is strangely compelling, if occasionally dryer than a cracker. Invisible City, your signal has been received.
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