COLORS MAGAZINE VISITS THE MICHAELIS SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN.

Presentation of the magazine’s latest issue “Money” and a photo workshop.

Cape Town, 23 April 2008. Colors Magazine has been invited by the Michaelis School of Fine Art to present the latest issue “Money” in their Lunchtime Lecture Series.
An international magazine well-known for its inventive approach to photography, design and creative writing, the Colors editorial team will also deliver a lecture on the diverse approaches to magazine form, concept and design.  Sponsored by the Michaelis School of Fine Art, the University of Cape Town and Fabrica, the Benetton group’s communication research centre where Colors is produced, the event is intended to provide insight into the creation, formation and editing of a concept-based magazine. The Lunchtime Lecture Series features artists, critics, curators, art historians, theorists and others invited to present to the entire school. The events are open to the public, and have grown in recent years both in terms of scope and popularity.

About Colors and Fabrica
Established in 1991 under the leadership of Tibor Kalman and Oliviero Toscani, Colors is a quarterly magazine sold in over 40 countries and published in four languages. Using conceptual design, visual language, and creative writing, Colors' themes range between the serious, such as ecology, violence, monoculture and HIV to the outright frivolous, such as shopping, fashion, and toys. Colors has been described as one of the 51 best magazines of all times (Good Magazine), one of the trendiest cultural magazines on the world scene (La Vanguardia) and was recently featured in Inside the great magazines, a trilogy exploring the influence of magazines on our social, political and cultural identities. Colors magazine is part of the publishing activities of Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, where young artists and researchers from various countries and cultures are invited to develop communication projects in fields of design, music, video, photography, publishing and new media. www.colorsmagazine.com www.fabrica.it

Benjamin Joffe-Walt, editor of Colors,  has written for the Economist and BBC and served as a foreign correspondent for both the Guardian and Sunday Telegraph. He was awarded Africa Print Journalist of the Year by CNN in 2005 and Young Journalist of the Year by the British Foreign Press Association in 2004. His work has appeared in the Sunday Independent, Star, Cape Times, Newsweek, This Day and the Mail and Guardian.

Mauro Bedoni, photo editor of Colors, has produced many multimedia communication campaigns for various institutions. As a photojournalist he worked for a number of Italian photo agencies and his work has been shown as the Perpignan FestivalOff. Prior to joining Colors magazine in 2007, he served as video editor for RAINews24, the Italian National TV Broadcasting Service.

About the MichaelisSchool of Fine Art
The Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town offers a four year Bachelor of Fine Art programme, as well as postgraduate Diploma in Art, Master of Philosophy, Master of Fine Art and Master of Arts in Fine Art programmes. The school incorporates sections of painting, sculpture, printmedia, photography, new media and the school’s art gallery. Distinguished artists and scholars are regularly invited to lecture and teach at the school. The campus is in close proximity to the SA National Gallery, SA Museum, National Library of South Africa, Houses of Parliament and Cape Town’s old CBD. www.michaelis.uct.ac.za

Presentation:
Wednesday, April 23 at 13:00
Michaelis Lecture Theatre
Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT
32 - 37 Orange Street
Gardens Cape Town

Photo workshop:
Prior to the presentation Mauro Bedoni and Benjamin Joffe-Walt will run a workshop from 9:30 to 11:30.
Those interested in attending can contact Svea Josephy at:
(021) 480-7146
svea.josephy@uct.ac.za

For more information, please contact:

Colors

Angela Quintavalle

Ph: +39  0422  516209

angie@fabrica.it

Photos of speakers and the latest issue of Colors available on request.

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