All artists being featured are people that actively work with anything that we mentioned above. Was this an act of symbolism so that all these artists would enjoy a thorough presentation, or will BACTERIA wander in other realms of art?īACTERIA is covering the artistic part of music, mostly in the cases that it has something to do with analog illustration and the importance of artwok and the overall aesthetics of a record, of a band, and its implementation in the current music and artistic underground, but also the general field of illustration. Many of which have taken commissions for the Greek underground music scene. The artists featured are highly distinguished and carefully selected. Moreover, the first issue was in process for over a year, so it would be unacceptable to have a bad end product. We were having this sense of obligation, If you’d like, towards the artists that supported us in this endeavor, to be as representative as possible of their work and to let them be absolutely content with BACTERIA. We would like the texture and the quality to come as close as possible to the one of a book, so that the art and the detail of the drawings come forward. The “book feeling” conveys even more palpably the artwork featured in it. You’d like getting your hands on one copy? Too bad, but just four or five Greeks had this privilege: the orders placed from aborad were so many that it was sold-out on its first day of publication! While anxiously waiting for the second issue, we put Konstantinos Psychas and Alexandros Pyromallis against the wall, we turned on the questioner's lamp and we plunge ourselves deep inside the world of BACTERIA. Through 90 black-and-white pages –weighting at a hefty 130 grams- pro-printed and limited to 150 copies only, the other-worldly fabric of semantic observation through pencil not only stands tall, but leaves you jaw-dropped with the dark stories that these drawings tell. What many of you might not know is that BACTERIA, perhaps the first Greek book fanzine, or to be more precise the “illustration and screen printing fanzine” that was published by Viral Graphics, including works from illustrators/artists in hot demand currently on the underground circuits. Some of you might recall Viral Graphics that a couple of months ago had talked with OUGH! about their work.
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