Visionaire 57 2010 Limited Edition Brand New Sealed In Box #1423

  

57 2010, a massive survey of the global art scene, resulted in a digital desk calendar and Visionaire's first-ever electric issue, sponsored, appropriately, by Smart to celebrate its new electric car. Featuring 365 artworks chosen by fifty-two curators (one for each week of the year), 2010 boasted more content than any other Visionaire issue - as well as one special bonus. For Tom Sachs's artwork, landing on October 1, the artist submitted a billboard for his own website. Readers who visited the site on that day and entered their name were sent a personalized Klein tool bag containing a limited-run Tom Sachs lighter, playing cards, artist's zine, and Sharpie marker.

Some said it made their whole year. Founded in 1991 as a collection of artwork and images hand-assembled by a group of friends in a one-room apartment in New York City, Visionaire has since grown into one of the most highly sought-after fashion and art publications in the world.

The New Yorker has characterized Visionaire magazine as "a creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers and thinkers, " adding it's a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill. For this latest issue, 52 curators (including Nancy Spector, Beatrix Ruf, Klaus Biesenbach, Louise Bourgeois, John Baldessari, Ugo Rondinone, Maurizio Cattelan, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Dakis Joannou, Mario Testino, Marc Jacobs, Guan Yi, Christian Boros, Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, James Franco, Kate Moss, Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron) have selected seven artists. Each artist contributes one image for a total of 365 images by 365 different artists, which are assembled as an electronic calendar that displays one image for each day of the year.

This is Visionaire's first electric plug-in issue featuring art on a high-definition screen. It is also one of their most useful and giftworthy issues! Visionaire 57: 2010 is produced in collaboration with Smart, in anticipation of the Smart electric car to be launched in 2010, and as a part of Smart's ongoing support of urban creativity.