‘Omagiu’ (Homage, pronounced Oh-Mah-Jee-Oo) is the name of the first urban-style and contemporary art magazine in Romania; it is bilingual, published in Romanian and English.
208 pages of design, art, fashion, music & urban culture on 139776 square centimetres. 195 photos, 25 illustrations, 10 personalised adverts; quarterly magazine.
‘Omagiu’ aims to be a platform dedicated to the creative industries, gathering together the most influential contemporary artists, architects, designers and musicians from the new generations. The magazine is a fusion of several types of publications, promising to be a trustworthy guide in the aesthetic jungle of the nowadays consumerist society, but also a collectable item, which will debate and analyse the vast contents of the urban culture in Romania and abroad. ‘Omagiu’ offers links to sites on the www which illustrate the changes produced in the conceptualising of the contemporary artistic act. ‘Omagiu’ will always be one step ahead of the trends, by observing and promoting innovative cultural areas.
The first issue ‘Fals / Fake’ (August/September/October 2005) contains:
A photo reportage by Stefan Cosma in Bucharest on fake urbanism, with a text by Irina Melita; Photographical remakes of famous paintings, shot in Vienna by Andrei Waldegg; ‘Living units’ – fragment of a project by artists Mona Vatmanu and Florin Tudor; ‘Household use’ – a project for ‘Omagiu’ by artist Cristi Pogacean; Musicians Vlaicu Golcea and Cristian Stefanescu in a dialogue on music formats; ‘Interior Terror’ – a fusion of design and lingerie. There is also an article by Alexandra Enache on Japanese glam rock, and an interview with the fashion designer Irina Marinescu, the ‘Fake vs. Original’ section which presents fake industrial design. Vlad Nanca interviews the artist, Spesh, and his portfolio + ‘Red dots’. Stefan Tiron writes on “Fake animal robotics”, and towards the end, Stefan Cosma comes back with ‘Celulart – IntroOutrospective’, realTVty remix, a series of photos taken with a mobile phone.
Price: EUR7, US$9, £5 (or Lei 24)
For details please contact:
Stefan Cosma - Editor in Chief (+40722 678 912; e-mail: stefan@omagiu.com)
Cristian Neagoe - PR Executive (+40722 229 623; e-mail: cristi@omagiu.com)
