Hapax magazine is a new independent visual arts magazine founded by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald with the aim of promoting the creation of new images and ideas by supporting the artists and authors who make them, to be appreciated by an international audience.
It takes its name from the literary term "hapax legomenon",  a linguistic form (word or expression, but in this case a work of art) that appears only once in the context of a text, an author or the entire literary system of a language.
Hapax Magazine, in fact, commissions the works it hosts to international artists, writers and curators who wish to test new ideas that depart from their previously established creative practice. The result is that of a magazine completely distinct from the classic model of art magazines, a magazine in which the idea of the magazine as an exhibition space reaches its most extreme form because its content is unpublished and will only be visible in the pages of the magazine.
In an age of visual overload and repetition, Hapax Magazine creates a space to incubate new ideas, share them with an audience and also keep them special.

The design of the product is also interesting, with a handmade thread binding and some of the pages of the magazines that become leporelli with three sides.

Size: 23x16 cm
English language

ISSUE 1
The first issue of Hapax includes new works commissioned from Lucas Gabellini-Fava, Monika Orpik, CJ Chandler, Laura El-Tantawy and Godelive Kasangati Kabena. With the new curation by Mark Sealy and the work of Earlie Hudnall Jr. and Iris Sikking which brings together the work of Lisa Barnard, Bertrand Cavalier, Samar Al Summary, Malgorzata Stankiewicz, Douglas Mandry, Seungwon Jung and Aàdesokan.