Atlantica is a contemporary art and culture magazine produced by the Centro Atlántico de Arte de Moderno (CAAM) based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in between Europe, Americas and Africa.

History

Atlantica publishes its first issue in October 1990, in Spanish. With the change in management in 1992, it becomes a four-monthly bilingual (Spanish-English) magazine; grafic changes giving images a fundamental role. Another editorial turn happens with issue 40 (2004). «Atlantica» publishes regularly three issues every year.

Content

Since 1992 Atlantica publishes critical papers, reviews, conversations, interviews and artist projects. The vocation is interdisciplinary. Not only art but also sociology and philosophy, anytime these subjects allow to throw light on more recent and complex tendencies in the field of contemporary art.

Authors

Atlantica mostly addressed and gives voice to experts in contemporary arts and culture. It works in order to open up their horizons, hosting artists' speeches and theoretical observations across continents. Among those who collaborate there are writers, magazine directors, art critics, intellectuals, i.e. Anders Michelsen, Benjamin Weil, Charles Merewether, Lliliam Llanes, Berta Sichel, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...

, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Ery Camara, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa (since 1994 co-curator of Avana Biennale), Simon Njami, Clementine Deliss

Clémentine Deliss

Clémentine Deliss was born in 1960 in London. She is a curator, researcher and publisher.- Biography :Clémentine Marie Deliss is born in 1960 in London from French-Austrian parents. She studies art in Vienna and she holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D...

, Olu Oguibe, Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...

, Salah Hassan, Colin Richards, Ruben Gallo, Coco Fusco, Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru is a Chinese art curator and critic who lives in United States since 2006.He received degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and moved from China in 1990. He lived 16 years in France before moving to America in 1990...

, Clive Kellner, Achille Bonito Oliva, Francesco Bonami, Gerardo Mosquera, Hou Hanru, Rhaseed Araeen, Candice Breitz e Rosa Martínez. But also Bernard Henri-Levi, Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....

, Sadie Plant, Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

Ilya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.-Biography :...

and Sami Nair.

The first three issues were written in collaboration with Nancy Davenport, Barbara Pollak, Arthur C. Danto, Carmela Garc ía, Shoja Azari, José Ferriera, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Penny Siopis. Starting from issue 40 (2004) the magazine is published by Ediciones del Umbral and directed by Alicia Chillida, Antonio Zaya e Octavio Zaya.

External links

• http://www.caam.net/es/atlantica/cont_atlantica.htm
• http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?tipo_busqueda=CODIGO&clave_revista=2000
• Centro Atlántico de Arte de Moderno (CAAM) di Las Palmas de Gran Canaria http://www.caam.net