CORNUCOPIA ZINE
Cornucopia Zine is an ongoing visual dialogue between Oscar Ruiz-Schmidt and a guest artist. Founded in San José, Costa Rica in 2013, each edition takes the form of a zine, book, poster or object — presented as a co-signed monograph between two distinct voices. Now in its 45th edition.
In 2015, Cornucopia Zine entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through its participation in The Newsstand — the mixed-media installation conceived and curated by artist Lele Saveri. Originally a community-run zine space inside Brooklyn's Metropolitan Avenue subway station in 2013, The Newsstand was recreated at MoMA as part of Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, and subsequently presented at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. The installation entered MoMA's permanent collection, bringing with it the independent publishing community, and the zines that gave it life.
Cornucopia Zine was among them.
The project is further documented in The Newsstand: Independently Published Zines, Magazines & Artist Books (Skira Rizzoli, 2016) — the definitive catalogue of the project, featuring essays by AA Bronson and Tom Sachs, with a foreword by Phil Aarons. Cornucopia Zine appears in the book as entry 003 (Unisono) and entry 137 (Stnby 1), among over a thousand independent publications catalogued from around the world.
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