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O.O.A. (Outsider Art, reinventing the world) is a six-monthly Outsider Art and Art Brut review about irregular art, creators operating, for passion and madness, on the fringe of society and about their clandestine art forms.

History

O.O.A. was born in 2010 as leading project of the Outisder Art Observatory in Palermo directed by the contemporary art critic and Outsider Art specialist Eva di Stefano. From then on, the biannual magazine O.O.A. is about Outsider Art expounding the theme under multiple points of view (cultural, philosophical, sociological, anthropological) and investigating, with a scientific approach, the possibility of comparisons with contemporary art system. The magazine, organised by the Outsider Art Observatory association coordinated by Eva di Stefano, was distributed on-line in a free digital edition and in Italian for its first 5 issues. Initially published by the University of Palermo, the magazine is now edited by the young publishing house Glifo Edizioni in Palermo that in October 2013 published the first Italian printed edition of the magazine and the first English translation (available in PDF version). Due to the great success of the O.O.A. english PDF version, Glifo Edizioni is going to print it on paper. Raw Vision, the world's leading Outsider Art magazine, has dedicated a news at O.O.A. in his n.80 isuue.

Main features of the magazine

O.O.A. is an international outsider art magazine splendidly illustrated by Glifo Edizioni and able to gather together some of the most important international contributors. Photographic images interact with the graphic design creating a unique magazine. Along with Raw Vision, O.O.A. is the only outsider art magazine in Europe, and among the few ones worldwide.

Structure of the magazine

O.O.A. organizes its articles in thematic sections. Memories is devoted to irregular art evidences of the past, vanished works of which traces remain, and about their conservation and protection matters; Explorations is about new outsider artists discovered, or rediscovered, and new creators that still not have received any critics. Focus in-depth essays on a more general topic. In-depth studies. Borderline Stories, with retrospection, gathers some exemplary creative self-exile events from the end of the nineteenth century. Report is about important outsider art events like faires, expositions, collections and museums.

External links

• O.O.A. publishing house