Cercle Magazine No. 9 – Flowers

Cercle Magazine No. 9 Flowers (English edition) is available at LOREM (not Ipsum). Insects are attracted to flowers because of their shape, colour and smell. They gather pollen and then move it away from the reproductive organ. Beyond this evolutionary pattern, flowers fascinate another species: humankind.

Elevated to the rank of muse by science and the arts, they were dissected over the years, petal by petal, and remain an infinite subject for poets, researchers and lovers. Their beauty is only matched by their ephemerality, mankind continues to explore, categorise, preserve and reproduce the flower, or rather flowers. Because they express themselves in their diversity. Both as a universal language, symbol of revolts and passions or cautious diplomat of a protocol, they also bloom in the private sphere, and accompany life’s stages and events.

As spring begins, flowers blossom in the pages of this ninth edition, cultivated, ornamental, extracted and enjoyed for the pleasure of our senses. A pleasure to give, a joy to receive.

Cercle magazine is an independent and thematic publication published once a year. Every year, a new issue. Each issue, a new topic. Cercle tries to gather information around one main topic and to propose a support that values contemporary artistic creation, culture and science. At the core of the project was the observation that social networks were an important part of our lives and that digital development allowed a free and fast exchange of information and images. We therefore wanted to take advantage of these circulatory images and information and aggregate them according to a simple process: restricted selection, printing and publish. Cercle Magazine focuses on the idea of mustering professional, literary, visual, scientific and artistic aspects of one theme per issue, and to propose an inquisitive, playful but also a demanding and inspiring magazine. So far, Cercle Magazine has received support from Fondation Aquatic Show, Syndicat Potentiel, Arte, ESAD Valenciennes, ESAM Caen, HEAR Strasbourg, LISAA Strasbourg, SAFI Maison & Objets, Intuit Lab Paris School, Centre National du Livre, Direction Régionale des affaires Culturelles, Région Grand Est and from Strasbourg Eurométropole.

Content

Alain Baraton (Entretien, France), Velvetyne Type Foundry / Ariel Martín Pérez (Typographie, France), Akatre (Portfolio, France), Johanna Rocard (Portfolio, France), Mike Willcox (Portfolio, USA) Léo Puel (Films, France), Luiza Holub (Portfolio, UK), Mao Lizi (Portfolio, China), Émilie Fernandez (Musique / Livres, France), Phil Greenwood (Portfolio, UK), Christelle Dion (Design graphique, France), Santtu Mustonen (Portfolio, Finland), Sandra Bideau (Food, France), Alex MacLean (Portfolio, USA), Louise Von Cronenberger (Mode, France), Marion Cole (Traduction, France), …

Details: Cercle Magazine No. 9 – Flowers

140 pages, 20 × 26,5 cm
Language: English