Frog 8, February 2009.

Frog 8 was published in February 2009. Both American fashion photographer and artist Collier Schorr and English artist Wolfgang Tillmans did a specific self-portrait for two different covers.

The issue features an extensive COLLIER SCHORR interview by Frog’s editor in chief ERIC TRONCY, while Italian critic and curator ANDREA VILIANI interviewed mysterious artist ROBERTO CUOGHI who happened to give us what is probably his only self portrait ever, as well as a specific photographic project after his show at ICA London.

French curator and Le Consortium Art Centre co-director FRANCK GAUTHEROT’s critical text on NANCY SPECTOR’s Theanyspacewhatever at Guggenheim: a show that was supposed to be THE show of a generation that will eventually have to wait for another one to be properly dealt with.

With issue 8 of Frog we decided to acknowledge our interest in architecture – a discipline that has a lot in common with contemporary visual arts. For his debuts as associate editor for architecture, French architect and urbanist SIMON DE DREUILLE wrote on Dutch architecture team FAT and asked French urbanist —and extraordinary writer— FRANCOIS DECOSTER to look at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennial. Paris based architect ERWAN BONDUELLE & ANTHONY JAMMES (now working at GRAU Paris, the agency they created a few years later) explored SANAA/KAZUO SEJIMA & RYUE NISHISAWA’s architectural project for The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Frog regular contributor photographer MARINA FAUST celebrates in this issue the 20th anniversary of MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA with an exclusive portfolio, while PIERRE EVEN pictures the RON ARAD show at the Pompidou Centre. Now regular contributor SEUNG DUK KIM takes us to great historical artist LYNDA BENGLIS’s home with a very unique pictures series – and saves the interview for the next issue!