GUY HOLLINGWORTH
HELDER GUIMARÃES
DENNIS KIM
LIU BOLIN
BRAD FULTON
PIERRIC
WILL HOUSTOUN
SHAWN DESOUZA-COELHO
BOB GILL
176 pages
190mm x 260mm
LE-UV Lithographic print processes
Debossed flush-cut soft cover on uncoated smyth-sewn stock
ISBN: 978-1-8380597-1-2
Photography by Brad Fulton, Alex Hansford and Catarina Marques
Guest editor Dr. Will Houstoun, PhD
After a long, pandemic-inspired hiatus, Issue Four of THE NEAT REVIEW is finally available.
The location for Issue Four is EVERYWHERE & NOWHERE. Contributors from all over the world bring us a whirlwind of eclecticism in the wake of an artificial existence.
Issue Four takes us all over the world.
We go to Los Angeles with Helder Guimarães as he takes us backstage at his virtual shows at the Geffen Playhouse, then to London where Guy Hollingworth shares an unpublished, full-length card routine, and showcases his nearly-finished follow-up to his incredible Drawing Room Deceptions. We visit Raleigh, in North Carolina, and meet underground legend Dennis Kim, who, in 38 pages of searing detail, tips a very difficult and very beautiful Three-Fly with cards. Then, dear readers, a stones throw to Berlin, where Will Houstoun teaches an impossible mentalism effect that you will be able to perform everywhere and, curiously, nowhere.
We hop to Paris with FISM-winner Pierric, who discusses understating magic and performance art, and over to Toronto, with Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, who shares some footnotes to his upcoming book on aesthetic philosophy in magic under our NEAT REVIEW imprint, 'Magic as Medium.' Then finally, to Beijing, with artist Liu Bolin, who describes precisely why he is disappearing all over the globe. Then, just before home-time, we stop off by the North Wessex Downs in England, where Robert Gill muses, with tongue-firmly-in-cheek, "What is Magic?" Thankfully, he leaves us with a penultimate definition.
London, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Berlin, Paris, Toronto, Beijing, and the North Wessex Downs.
Quite a list for a fourth issue. It would be incredibly difficult, you would surmise, to imagine all of that being contained inside a single art journal. But indeed, this is THE NEAT REVIEW Issue Four, and contain it all we do—or at least we try. The ideas are a-brimming inside these lithographically printed and sewn-bound pages, and you'd be very welcome to buy one and see them for yourself, if that's what you fancy.
Details
LE-UV Lithographic print processes
Debossed flush-cut soft cover
Guy Hollingworth
Guy Hollingworth is an English barrister, conjurer, author and lecturer. And a gentleman. As a conjurer he is known for his painstaking adeptness, and skilful performances of card magic. It cannot be overstated: his elegant and effortless sleight of hand with cards has been of immeasurable influence on every single one of our contributors.
Helder Guimarães
Helder Guimarães is a Portuguese performer, magician, and storyteller. Known for his unique approach of sleight-of-hand magic and storytelling, Helder's work has been featured at the Kennedy Center, TED Talks, Talks at Google and Off-Broadway productions. The Los Angeles Times stated "he seems remarkably sincere and trustworthy for a man committed to deception,"[2] and The New York Times recognized him as "a Master of Illusions". He spoke with us for Issue Four of THE NEAT REVIEW.
Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin is a Chinese performance artist and photographer known for using chameleon-like methods to immerse himself in environments, earning him the nickname “The Invisible Man.” The artist’s Hiding in the City series camouflages Liu by way of paint, a “silent protest” aimed at the Chinese government’s policies in the years since the Cultural Revolution. “Disappearing is not the main point of my work," Liu has said. “It's just the method I use to pass on a message. It's my way to convey all the anxiety I feel for human beings.” He contributed a number of his photographs to THE NEAT REVIEW Issue Four: Everywhere & Nowhere.
Dennis Kim
Dennis Kim is a phenomenal underground card magician. His magic is very technical and quite difficult, but in his hands it is sublime. New York magician Tony Chang has been heard saying "I pass the torch to Dennis" in honour of Dennis' fervour, zeal and passion for sleight of hand with playing cards. High praise indeed, and wholly warranted.
Brad Fulton
Texas photographer and card vendor Brad Fulton photographed his friends Dan & Dave Buck in California in the late 90's, and we published a book of his photography, SPLAY.
Pierric Tenthorey
Pierric Tenthorey is a Franco-Swiss actor, director, magician and author born in Vevey in 1981. As an author, he has written and directed six short films, five music videos, a novel and a collection of short stories, as well as eight plays and shows. His silent show, "Homme encadré sur fond blanc", a blend of humor and visual magic, has been performed nearly 200 times in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland. As a magician, he has performed and lectured all over the world (Las Vegas, Hollywood at the legendary Magic Castle, London, Busan, Hamburg, etc…), as well as on television and radio (Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde) and numerous RTS radio and TV programs. In 2015, he received the highest distinction in the art of magic, the title of World Champion. (Grand Prix in Close-up magic at FISM in Rimini).
Dr Will Houstoun
Will Houstoun has a PhD in the history of magical education, supervised by Dame Marina Warner, and is a winner of the European Magic Championships. He holds a Literary Fellowship with the Academy of Magical Arts in Los Angeles and a Research Fellowship with the Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute. His current research interests lie in exploring the ways in which the skill and approach of the conjurer can be utilised in an educational context. He was guest editor of Issue Four and contributed linocut artworks for our publication "Reality is Magic".
Shawn Desouza-Coelho
We published Shawn DeSouza-Coelho's "Magic as Medium" as an introduction to linguistics, semiotics, phenomenology and the meaning of art, all through the lens of magic and theatre. Shawn's writing in this book explores the space between the ideal and the real. It prods at the moment of astonishment. Citing a vast compilation of work from magicians such as Paul Harris, Eugene Burger, Max Maven and Derek DelGaudio, Shawn dissects the writings of philosophy giants Saussure and Lacan to Barthes and Heidegger, and considers their works alongside and amidst magic.
Bob Gill
Bob Gill wrote a playful article for Issue Four of THE NEAT REVIEW attempting to define 'magic' — a mighty task indeed. Beginning in communications and the worlds of advertising, PR and events agencies, Bob was working closely with UK magician Wayne Dobson to collate an exhaustive trilogy which will comprise Wayne's fabulous legacy.