Hungarian artist Susanna Lakner (1960) was born and raised in Budapest, where she studied typography at what is now Moholy-Nagy University and completed an apprenticeship in printing and retouching. After having worked as a designer in the Hungarian printing industry for a number of years, she and her husband moved to Stuttgart, Germany. There she turned to a full-time artist’s practice with a focus on analogue collages, found object assemblages, stamps, artist’s books and mail art (the latter under the pseudonym Planet Susannia). Between 2000 and 2017 she also published her magazine 22, which saw fifty-one issues with works by international mail artists. Since 2022 she has produced illustrations and book covers for Moloko Plus.
Moloko Plus has now published a facsimile of Lakner’s 2021 artist’s book Magazin Spettacolo. The book solely consists of collages fabricated from three Hungarian, German and Italian magazines from the 1970s. Lakner’s background in typography and printing design shows in these collages, which surmount the original printed matter and – much like ‘cut-ups’ – open new perspectives and meanings. The handsome edition is introduced by German collage artist Boris Kerenski.