The Worst Magazine Ever: GOLD

Gold, Polish-Russian edition, 2012
Editor-in-Chief: Maryna Tomaszewska
23 contributors
Number of pages: 104
Format: 210 × 297 mm
Circulation: 1000

Wladimir Bielogolowskij, Jakub Biernat, Tymek Borowski, Jakub Eichelberger, Michał Frydrych, Aleksandra Hirszfeld, Mikołaj Iwański, Igor Jarkiewicz, JeliKuka, Grzegorz Kapla, Viktoria Lomasko, Andrzej Miękus, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, Agata Nowicka, Karolina Plinta, Irina Popowa, Aleksander Puszkin, Dawid Radziszewski, Paulina Sieniarska, Aleksander Surikow, Maryna Tomaszewska, Paulina Tyro-Niezgoda, Anatolij Wiatkin 

Gold can be understood as glamour, luxury, or consumerism, but also kitsch and bad taste. For this bilingual edition, authors and writers from Poland and Russia were invited to contemplate majesty and baroque opulence, common characteristics of the culture of (not only) ancient Russia. This intended splendor, or even pomposity, is – as always in the case of The Worst Magazine – a kind of play, a game with the reader, in which, using a familiar template as a prototype, the concept assigned to it is completely demolished. Examples of content for this issue include: horoscopes for artists, new banknote designs, images of gold teeth, and a presentation of the oligarchs of Central and Eastern Europe. 

This edition was realized in the framework of the “Young Poland” scholarship for outstanding young artists, sponsored by the National Center for Culture.