{"title":"Akt Magazine","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"akt-magazine-issue-4","title":"Akt Magazine Issue IV","description":"We move away to become closer.\nAKT IV is an act of release.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nLetting go. Losing control. Leaving for the countryside.\nThis fourth issue of AKT documents the freedom of release. It follows creators who stray from the path and relinquish the rules of control. \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nJewellery designer Catherine Rochtus lets materials speak for themselves. The trio behind Newchild gallery lets its artists be the guides. In an industry of followers, fashion creative Florence Cools values her autonomy. Darshana Shilpi Rouget encourages art to flow beyond its frame.\nMoving closer into our true selves can be a journey as slight as leaning into assurance, or as strong as moving across an ocean. Julie Claes of Studio STRAF finds peace in the shade, while Tom van Dorpe finds his natural pace in Paris.\nSometimes our destination can be found in the way we live and the buildings we inhabit. We travel with Axel Vervoordt through his home Castle ‘s-Gravenwezel and down a hidden path in the forest to his wabi pavilion designed with architect Tatsuro Miki. With architect Hans Verstuyft, we explore a minimalist family home near Antwerp that finds its heart in a historic footprint.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMany people journey their lifetimes to find the feeling of home.\nWriter Michael Gardner considers how time changes us and diverts us our paths – how memories of personal tragedy ripen, how the words of Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh resonate, and how 365 flowers can bloom and fade. His thoughts unfold to a rich, painterly and mystical photographic essay that asks us to keep looking deeper.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThrough poetry, We contemplates the inwards journey to feeling present inside yourself – illustrated by the vivacious images of visual creator Ramy Moharam Fouad and make up designer Joek Janssens that capture the sense of unbridled individual freedom this can bring.","brand":"Akt Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53946316554625,"sku":"AK1000","price":100.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7442\/5885\/files\/AK1000.jpg?v=1764639306"},{"product_id":"akt-magazine-issue-vi","title":"Akt Magazine Issue VI","description":"AKT VI shines light on blank spaces and wrong turns. The full spectrum of creativity is not always straight forwards.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFor Studio KO, featured in this issue, there lies the precious nature of humanity: in the texture of meanderings, mistakes, even cast-offs. For Vincenzo De Cotiis, it can be found in patinated surfaces: stressed, challenged and excavated over time.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCurious about the journey, we retrace the methods of architects Nidus, Danielle Siggerud and Arnout De Sutter. Then step inside a Parisian apartment with Nóbrega Borghmans, and a retreat in the British countryside with Andy Kerstens, in order to step into their processes.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWe find architect Vincent Van Duysen in Comporta, between sunken villas, sun and shadow, with his feet in the sand: in a moment of suspension. We meet architect Leopold Banchini in Morocco at his off-grid environmental living system built of rammed earth. Then visit La Congiunta, a cult, quasi-spiritual museum in rural Switzerland imagined by Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn and architect Peter Märkli.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWith thick walls and grounding forms, these defensive spaces insulate and distance us from a chaotic world beyond with growing urgency. A search for this kind of space defines the journey of Valentin Loellmann: “All my life, I’ve been searching for a home, a safe place. If I don’t find it while I’m alive, then maybe I’ll only find peace after I’m gone,” he says.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWriter Micha van Dinther embraces the fear of silence during a pilgrimage to the Mariavall convent in Sweden, discovering it far from empty yet filled with mental revelation. Architect Nicolas Schuybroek contemplates the ‘charged’ silence of the understated ceramics of Pierre Culot that similarly seem to command self-reflection.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSilent voids are also filled with the potential for expression. Giving us courage, Belgian model and musician Kim Peers fearlessly occupies the stage as an otherworldly presence in theatrical performances with her post-punk band Skemer.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nParadoxically, it is in storms and dark skies that Peers finds the most truth and calm. Which is why it is in the uncertainty, struggle, doubt and the labour of love, that this issue of AKT invites you to dwell.","brand":"Akt Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55018546626945,"sku":"AK1002","price":110.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7442\/5885\/files\/AK1002.jpg?v=1764635581"}],"url":"https:\/\/b2b-new-mags.com\/collections\/akt-magazine.oembed","provider":"New Mags B2B","version":"1.0","type":"link"}