ToiletPaper Magazine N°20

published in January 2025
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22.5 x 29 cm (paperback)
40 pages (ill.)

ToiletMiles PaperAldridge is the third collaboration for Toilet Paper magazine, following those with Martin Parr and Alex Prager. Created with British photographer Miles Aldridge, this edition highlights a glamorous, chromatic, and surreal aesthetic, influenced notably by Fellini, David Lynch, and the artistic legacy of his father, Alan Aldridge.
The issue presents a selection of sophisticated images with vibrant, acid-toned colors, true to Aldridge’s visual universe.

Miles Aldridge (born in London in 1964) is a fashion photographer known throughout the world for the unique style of his glamorous, surreal, and saturated photographs, his sophisticated stagings, and his cinematic atmospheres. A regular contributor to the Italian edition of Vogue, he also publishes in Numéro, Paradis, Citizen K, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

The design

The Italian Maurizio Cattelan enjoys mockery and provoking controversy by creating works intended to challenge the public. Self-taught, he began his career in the late 1980s. His works, which take shape from real-world objects and people, are the result of an irreverent operation against art and institutions. Cattelan opened his own New York gallery, the Wrong Gallery, a space where nothing is sold and which remains permanently closed. Cattelan creates works that always cause scandal and give rise to all kinds of interpretations, even questioning religion and the sacred, such as La Nona Ora, a life-sized wax sculpture representing the late Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite. His sculpture "LOVE," exhibited on the Piazza Affari in Milan since 2010, provokes residents and challenges the history of this financial square with a simple gesture (an upraised middle finger).
In January 2012, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presented a 21-year retrospective of his work, titled "Maurizio Cattelan: All." In June 2010, he launched the biannual magazine Toiletpaper with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, featuring images full of humor and fantasy. Toiletpaper is now a brand that adapts its kitsch images into decorative objects and a clothing line.