DT500 MAG IS A POST-CONCEPTUAL PUBLIC PORTRAITURE
The project is founded and run by a creative director and photographer
ARTHUR SOPIN AND ANDREAS ROD
Anno 02.2013 NYC
DT500 MAG has a current residency in Dalston, N16 7DL, East London, UK.
Phones : 0044 (0)7784702719 / 0044 (0)7741816989
Email: dt500mag@gmail.com
DT500 MAG uses a form of Fanzine but is also an artisan hybrid-studio, creative space and mainly a public portraiture. The purpose of our editorial program is to portrait the intimate and true moments of emerging and established artists, creatives, activists and progressive thinkers giving them a scene for free expression. DT500 Mag is a club to meet and recognize controversial creative individuals.
DT500 MAG is about the intimate stories of uncertain and eccentric individuals who celebrate the collective inventiveness and freedom that the seemingly simple act of being different provides. The project shapes a historical and creative context for the experience of eccentricity and the great notion of the future where self-expression and creative freedom is not just celebrated but actively encouraged.
DOWNTOWN 500 MAGAZINE IS FIRSTLY INSPIRED BY THE VILLAGE EYE A FANZINE AND THE FREE CREATIVES IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE EARLY 80’S. THE CREW OF YOUNG THEN: JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT, LOU REED, GREER LANKTON, JOSEPH NECHVATAL, JIM RADAKOVICH, NAN GOLDIN, DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, MARIPOL, CLAYTON PATTERSON, JAMES ROMBERGER AMONG OTHERS. THESE ART BRUTIES CALLED THEMSELVES #DOWNTOWN500NEWYORK
AWARDS / EXHIBITIONS
2000 NORAD Fund Award, Norway
2004 NISS Film Award, Oslo, Norway
2009 Cyan Analog Photography Award, Oslo, Norway
2014 KREM Norge Funded, Oslo, Norway
2016 Sommerøya, Oslo, Norway
2016 Em Re Un Gallery, Group Exhibition, UK
2016 By Other Means Open Group Exhibition, London
2017 FLUX EVENT SOLO ART TALK, London, UK
2018 By Other Means, NO IT IS NOT NOT ALWAYS Solo Exhibition, London, UK
2018 DYSPLA International Film Festival London Finalists, UK
2018 Gorilla Zoo Gallery, Modern Panic London, UK
2019 Florence Biennale 2019, Florence, Italy
2019 The 58th Venice Biennale at Democratic Pavillion, Italy.
© DT500 Magazine 02.2013 NYC
