The American artist signs an anti-war manifesto in the latest issue of the magazine.
A pioneer when Graffiti met the formal gallery ecosystem, artist Futura (born Leonard Hilton McGurr) was known as early as the 1970s for his radical approach in the street, introducing abstraction to what was an entirely letter-based discipline. His work on canvas caught attention in the 1980s, and established him as a leading voice within a wider art movement that included the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. Futura’s creativity — articulated across canvas, paper, sculpture, photography, graphic design, and large-scale mural work—shines as a result of its kinetic composition, elemental quality, and fully-original gestures. This dear friend of Agnès was invited to imagine the 67th issue of Le Point d'ironie: “NO GUERRA is a creative representation of concepts, individuals, places, and ideas. Thank you for your anti-war considerations…”
LEONARD HILTON McGURR aka FUTURA
The ⸮ originates from a talk between agnès b., Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1997. Each issue is made by an artist who makes it his own and brings it up to a singular work of art. By means of its gratuitousness as well as of its size and circulation, the ⸮ is an atypical periodical which is distributed in scattered way (one hundred thousand copies are spread out over the world in museums, galleries, bookshops, schools, movie theatres, shops, etc.) Made up by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the XIXth century, the ⸮ is punctuation mark used at the end of sentences (as an exclamation or a question mark) to point ironic passages in a text.
