jay rechsteiner

How to Make a Monster / Basel, 2012

Monster Press

Twelve magazine covers · A3 high-quality prints on paper · suspended newspaper holders

Monster Press uses the familiar format of sensational magazine covers to explore how mass media, gossip and repetition shape our ideas of other people. Its fictional headlines and images borrow the authority of print publishing while pointing to the processes through which the media can make a public “monster”.

Monster Press installation at High Voltage, Basel
Installation view, High Voltage, Basel, September–October 2012

Magazine covers

Monster Press fictional magazine cover: bogus
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: cheat magazine
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: cow
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: der sieger
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: fart
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: fishtin
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: hells
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: ko magazine
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: poverty weekly
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: schweizer kastrierte
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: the errorist
Monster Press fictional magazine cover: vulgar

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