ACNE PAPER

The Anthologies

INTERVIEWS | WRITING. Han Jinn’s interviews with the Curators of The Tate Modern and Musée Rodin were first published in Issue 15 and republished in the lavish 568 page anthologies edition which celebrated some of the best work from the magazine’s archive.

Noteworthy for both its elegant design and interdisciplinary approach, ACNE PAPER is a semi-annual publication that transcends ordinary fashion editorials with its eclectic exploration of culture through photography, fashion, art and literature.

The publication prides itself in publishing the work of contributors from the likes of photographers David Bailey, Lord Snowden, Paolo Roversi, Solve Sundsbo, Sault Leiter and Vivianne Sassen to contributors Kim Jones, David Lynch, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tilda Swinton and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Glamour & Charisma in the Works of Joseph Beuys

An Interview with Catharine Wood, the Curator of Contemporary Art & Performance at the Tate Modern

by HAN JINN

Joseph Beuys believed the artist was a type of “shaman” of modern times. Curiously, enough, in many of his own performances, Beuys assumed the role of a woman in order to tap into a feminine energy source which he believed was the source of release and healing.

HAN JINN interviews the Curator of the Tate Modern and explores a little known series of works entitled “Actresses” (1958). In these works, Beuys invokes the idea of the actress as a kind of public mystic or sorceress. He muses upon the role of the shaman in society and how the actress might fulfill it through enchantment/charisma as a kind of sorcery let loose through performance.


Rodin’s HANAKO

An Interview with Francois Blanchetière, Curator of the Rodin Museum

by HAN JINN

HANAKO was a tiny Japanese actress and the object of Auguste Rodin’s most exquisite obsession. The subject of over a hundred works — the largest number of portraits he ever made of a single person — Hanako’s expressive face eventually became the model for Beethoven’s death mask.

In an interview with the Curator of the Musée Rodin, HAN JINN explores Rodin’s fascination with this little known personality.

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