Description
Specifications:
ISBN: 978-988-15950-9-6
Size: 210mm(w) x 270mm(h)
Pages: 136p + 4p cover
Language: English
Conversations:
• Karine Hamel-Cam & Lucile Vidal – Micropolis – The City of Insects
Following Jean-Henri Fabre’s footsteps, Micropolis’ mission is to make us understand insects, if not love them. Diversity of species, reproduction modes, metamorphosis process, housing: a visit in the heart of the city of insects.
• Guy Theraulaz – Research Director at CNRS – Collective Intelligence
We met Guy Theraulaz, research director at the CNRS who works on animal cognition. How building insects’ civilisations interact in order to build their fabulous cities.
• Cornélia Hesse-Honegger – Science Illustrator – The One Who Painted Mutants
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger studies and paints insects who suffered morphological mutations around the world. A scientific and sensitive production that says a lot about man, nature and their mistakes.
• Jan Fabre – Contemporary Artist – The Master and the Scarabs
A conversation with Flemish contemporary art master Jan Fabre. When the artist manipulates nature to serve his message, insects become art material.
• Marie Dominique Wandhammer & Marie Ernster – Zoological Museum – Entomological Curiosities at the Museum
Strasbourg’s zoological museum abounds with a huge collection of insects. For dozens of years, the museum has acquired, studied, classified and sorted these fascinating creatures to show them to the public in their best light.
• Cédric Auriol – Micronutris – A Plateful of Insects
We met the founder of Micronutris, the first company in Europe to breed insects and create protein rich products fit for human consumption. Enjoy.
Inspirations:
Twelve artists, photographers, illustrators or mixed media artists whose work draws a formal or conceptual inspiration from the universe of butterflies, stick insects beetles, flies, dragonflies and other insects.
• Alma Haser – Germany
• Victor Ciccarelli – Italy
• Ryo Takemasa – Japan
• Alix Lukas – USA
• Zachari Logan – Canada
• Catherine Chalmers – USA
• Adam Batchelor – UK
• Igor Siwanowicz – Poland
• Sam Droege – USA
• Shikhei Goh – Indonesia
• Toni Demuro – Italy
• Travis Bedel – USA
Selections:
By their shape, their organism or their functioning, insects have parasitized different fields of creation. Here is a glimpse of the invasion over seven scopes of application.
• Design
• Fashion
• Architecture
• Films
• Books
• Music
• Food
About Cercle:
Cercle Magazine has been founded in 2011 by three graphic designers and illustrators, namely: Marlène Astrié, Marie Secher and Maxime Pintadu. Each issue of Cercle is based on 1 single idea. A concentration of different aspects of one particular topic (professional, visual, scientific, literary and artistic) in order to produce a surprising, cheerful but demanding magazine, aimed to be collected and to deliver timeless informations not bound to daily news twists. The topic is above all a support to highlight art creation and simple approach, able to interest both connoisseur and novices, printed objets’ lovers.
