HED - Wartime Magazine
09.09.2024
Matmon Bookstore
Led by Hagai Farago, “HED” is an Artist-Magazine Produced by hand in silk-screen print. Bringing together a mosaic of comments and impressions of the raging war, the magazine asks to facilitate a complex discourse over its 24 pages.
First Issue - Summer 2024
Limited Edition of 140 copies, printed in silk-screen printing.
Print Production and Content Editing: Hagai Farago
Graphic Design: Guy Mizrachi
Participating Artists (A-Z): Afek Adler, Andrew Saltzman, Celia Garion, David (Duchi) Cohen, Eden Sharon, Hagai Farago, Haim Shushan, Itay Ben Zur, Liri Agami, Michael Barzellai, Noga Cohen, Nur Patishi, “Strudel”, Yotam Cohen and Yotam Goren
Photography by Liri Agami | Invitation design: Guy Mizrachi
It has been a year now that immense bloodshed, displacement and grief have taken hold of many communities. It is a year of aching pain under the deadly leadership of militant, destructive Men.
What kind of printmaking can rise in such devastating times? As a screen-printing enthusiast I was eager to find a way to re-address my printing practices in search of personal purpose.
After months of concussion and stress, I chose to pursue a group project as a way to act in response to the horrible war. I invited a multidisciplinary and diverse group of artists to join forces in the publishing of an Artist-Magazine, all printed manually in silk-screen printing in a collaborative effort.
The magazine was named HED - Wartime Magazine, “hed” meaning echo in Hebrew. Its first edition consists of very personal responses, various in style and…