Image from Carlo Van de Roer's Orbs Project

20x200 photographer Carlo Van de Roer has been selected to appear in a special project with MUSAC Museum of Contemporary Art: an edition of FAKE Magazine.

MUSAC has invited Fake to develop a project for its Showcases. The initiative, produced by the Museum itself, will essentially revolve around a special issue devoted to today’s art, for which guest editor Tolo Cañellas has selected a number of works by contemporary artists, asking some of them to carry out specific interventions on the publication. Fake’s editorial line is underpinned by the idea that form is just as important as content, if not more so, applying concepts such as “copy”, “imitation”, “impersonation” or “appropriation” as formal tools to engage the reader’s critical perspective and suggesting readings on different possible levels. This special issue of Fake will draw its inspiration from Hello! magazine, appropriating its design, layout, sections and the luxurious artifice of its photography. The MUSAC Showcases will display an installation imitating the exhibits of any traditional museum. Based on Fake’s underlying philosophy, the exhibition will review the magazine’s history through its covers (published or not), with a special focus on this new and exclusive special issue. The magazine will also be distributed from the same spot. Close to 3,000 copies of this English and Spanish edition of Fake will be circulated free at the MUSAC stand at Frieze Art Fair from 16 to 19 October 2008.

Images from Carlo's Orbs project (which I enthusiastically wrote about this past August) will be featured in the magazine.

If only the Q train went to Spain...I'd be on my way.

MUSAC Museo de Art Contemporaneo
Avenida de los Reye Leoneses, 24
20048, Leon, SPAIN
FAKE
Sept 27, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009

Carlo's site
Carlo's 20x200 edition prints:
Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007
Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York)