Gustav Mesmer, Icarus of Lauteral A Magazine This issue was originally imagined

This issue was originally imagined to be about physical shelter

Dimensions: 37cm (height) x 35 (width) with full gusset

The majority of the authors are artists

Michael Riedel has devised a creative production of seemingly inexhaustible variability in which new works are developed out of existing materials

A gesture of resistance to immediacy

Gustav Mesmer, Icarus of Lauteral A Magazine This issue was originally imaginedGustav Mesmer, the Icarus of Lautertal, as he came to be called, was born in the village of Altshausen in Germany, in 1903. He left school early to work on farms as an indentured child labourer. Then he spent six years in a Benedictine monastery before falling ill and was sent away. He was eventually diagnosed with gradually progressing schizophrenia and was locked up in Bad Schussenried mental hospital where he worked as a basket weaver and