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Markus Bergström is the nicest designer in the world, he wants to make you think and be happy with simplicity and twist. His work spawn the spectrum from modern design to contemporary sculpture, each time favoring a simple and yet metaphorical approach to objects.
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Puberty in Teaching is both a book-catalogue and an exhibition at the Koelnischer Kunstverein in Cologne by Michael Krebber. A perfect oxymoron.
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Marie Sirgue - Grillage
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FINAL FIGHT! The graduating students of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Toulouse are revisiting the figure of the Duel. Worth seeing, come and support your champion!
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14/11 — 4/12 2008
opening 13/11 : Lieu Commun Gallery
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The CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux presents:
Off Set #3
An in situ posters intervention by Metahaven
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04 october 2008 — 23 November 2008
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Mister Richter is showing his 4900 colors (v.II) at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Respect.
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Gerhard Richter
4900 Colours: Version II
Until 16 November 2008
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4900 Colours comprises 196 square panels of 25 coloured squares that can be reconfigured in a number of variations, from one large–scale piece to multiple, smaller paintings. Richter has developed a new version especially for the Serpentine Gallery exhibition: 4900 Colours: Version II, formed of 49 paintings of 100 squares.
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Stilleben (2007)
Photo tirée de la série Flowers, Fruits & Portraits (C-print sur aluminium, dimensions variables)
Copyright de l'artiste et Courtesy Gallery Bob van Orsouw (Zurich)
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Jean-Paul Felley et Olivier Kaeser are the new heads of the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The CCS holds close links with the numerous art festivities in Paris. Amongst them Le Mois de la Photo 2008 during which artist Shirana Shahbazi will be showing her photographic work. Go see it!
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26 October — 04 January 2009
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C.O.I. From Graphic Subject to Graphic Object. An amazing exhibition showcasting the work of brilliant E.R.G. graduates and curated by good friend Renaud Huberlant.
Come and enjoy the witty work of designers Cathy Bisenius, Thomas Coccimiglio, Maxime Delporte, Stéphanie Derouaux, Simon Lagneaux and Benoît Lemoine!
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Sept. 13 to Oct. 11 at Designed in Brussels.
Tue. to Sat. 10am - 6pm
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japanesa trendesa back at MI-ZO. Love Tokyo!
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"Photographer duo, Zoren Gold and Minori, have started their collaboration in 2000. Their shared curiosity of mixing each of their different skills took them on a journey of discovering the new venue of photographic image-making. Their approach to photography is not only about capturing the moment of physical reality, but it is to unveil their freedom of individual/alternative reality. The fascination of what is possible in image-making has lead them to experiment with improvising different mediums as well as keeping the spontaneity to unlock their fantasy."
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French graphic designer Jean Claude Chianale is a multi-talented artist. You can have a taste of his work at the Bibliothèque Nelson Mandela in Vitry for which he did the visual identity. Beautifully clever!
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it started 40 years ago to culminate in a certain French month we think we know so well. Some great texts by Patrick Rotman to read ab-so-lu-te-ly! And of course the posters to flicker through. 1968 a year to rethink...
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Philippe Baudelocque painted his mothership UFO at the Pontault-Combault Cultural Centre. Go take a ride from 5—13 April.
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opening 05 april — 12pm
Madame sans gêne
Cour de la ferme Briarde
Mairie de Pontault-Combault
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John Divola, John Divola, we ❤ you! The LAX NAZ (Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement Zone) series is particularly amazing! And this was back in the 70s... black and white is the new color of those years...
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His brand new book on typefaces, grafitti and everything linked to massaging the messaging through letter shapes is out now. Fascinating and a must-read! Merci Ian!
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Alessandro Esteri from HandMade turns spams into poems. Does it work? Well it does make for a big book and afterall as spams say, SIZE MATTERS... (thanks to CR for the info)
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Parisian studio deValence® will give a talk at Paris VIII University, Wed. 20 Feb. Be there in room A1-172! (thanks D. for the info!)
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I think the film is still available to see at the Jeu de Paume. Ultralab is an hybrid entity founded by P. Béjean, F. Bortolotti™, Didier Lechenne et P. N. Ledoux.
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Soirée UltralabTM
Rencontre avec les artistes
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le 08 novembre 2007 19h00 - 21h00
Dans le cadre de l'exposition "UltralabTM L'Île de ParadisTM (version 1.15). Un voyage au milieu du temps", le Jeu de Paume propose, en présence des artistes, une projection en avant-première du film 1999TM, psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne dans le monde des arts réalisé par UltralabTM et Jérôme de Missolz ainsi que la présentation du catalogue de l'exposition (éditions du Jeu de Paume).
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Entrée libre sur présentation du billet d'entrée
À Concorde, le jeudi 8 novembre de 19 h à 21 h
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Fun found on WMMNA (aka. we-make-money-not-art). Christopher Brach is a product designer from Eindhoven in the NL.
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Amazing work from Hamburg designer Stefan Kern.
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Koilinen, Graphic + Motion Design in Switzerland
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Ian Lynam did a very good interview-article of typoband Underware. Check it out on the Néojaponisme's blog. Super chouette!
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I'd like to imagine this email list as a kind of Open Reading Group -- hovering somewhere between a book club and its book (or between a seminar and its syllabus, if you prefer.) The messages sent on this list will not be a group discussion nor will they be simple announcements. Rather, the texts may lead one to the other, in an indirect path, circumscribing the boundaries of one possible world-view. Perhaps you will enjoy, perhaps you will forward to others or recruit new members, perhaps you will participate and perhaps you will contribute.
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A radio performance by Ryan Gander & Dexter Sinister
curated by Anthony Huberman
at HOME SWEET HOME, Lower East Side
Sunday, November 11 at 9pm
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As part of New York's PERFORMA series, Ryan Gander & Dexter Sinister have recorded a spoken-word version of the pilot programme from Ryan Gander & Stuart Bailey's recently-published proposal for a TV series, 'Appendix Appendix'. The programme is a further attempt to chase a medium running away from itself. Recorded on location in Geneva and edited by Anthony Huberman, the show will be broadcast on WFMU, 91.1FM. A group listening on 30 radio sets will take place at the bar HOME SWEET HOME on this Sunday evening at 9pm:
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Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.
(Delancey & Broome Sts.)
Lower East Side
Tel: 212 226 5708
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Cast: Stuart Bailey, Sarah Crowner, Ryan Gander, Sarah Gephart, Will Holder, Anthony Huberman, David Reinfurt, Eden Reinfurt, and Jan Verwoert.
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Chef de l'école Réaliste, amoureux de la liberté, Gustave Courbet a su intégrer le naturel et la laideur au sein de l'empire pictural du XIXème siècle. Le Grand Palais revient sur l'oeuvre engagée de ce peintre, héritier de l'école Romantique et annonciateur de l'Impressionisme.
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Référence absolue de la peinture réaliste, l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet ne se présente plus. Chacun possède en tête l'image d'une de ses fameuses toiles attachantes ou polémiques. Artiste complexe et affirmé, il est à l'origine d'un nouveau regard sur le réel, mais aussi d'un genre bien particulier de personnalité publique. Scrutateur de son propre reflet, Courbet se cherche, se met en scène dans de multiples autoportraits présentés aux Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, parmi ses ineffables paysages du Doubs. Plus de 100 toiles, une trentaine de dessins préparatoires sont ainsi offerts aux yeux du public sur 1500m². Chaque toile livre en effet le caractère d'un lieu, d'une nature prospère, berceau d'une civilisation, ainsi dans la représentation du Château de Chillon (1874), composition à forte résurgence romantique. Tout en se représentant, il renverse les codes picturaux dans la célèbre toile l'Atelier du peintre (1855). Véritable allégorie de sa vie mais aussi de la société dans laquelle il s'inscrit, ce tableau anecdotique, dont le format voudrait qu'il illustre davantage une peinture historique qu'une scène de genre, perpétue la tradition des tableaux à double lectures.
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Si Courbet rassemble au sein d'une même toile, différents niveaux de compréhension, il crée le lien entre deux époques et deux façons de peindre. Fils spirituel du courant romantique, il opère un glissement vers l'Impressionisme, visible essentiellement dans ses paysages. La touche apposée sur le ciel dans son Paysage de Mer (1872) est en effet caractèristique du style observé chez Manet ou Sisley. Mais cette exposition événement est également l'occasion d'établir des connexions avec les autres techniques modernes de l'époque. On apprend ainsi que Courbet s'aidait parfois de photographies, parmi lesquelles celles de Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, pour donner naissance à ses toiles sociales. En témoigne le cliché " Etudes d'après nature" daté de 1853, qui place le peintre dans un autre rapport que celui attendu. Artiste, certes, il fut aussi de ceux qui s'investirent dans de nouveaux idéaux, il marquera de cette manière l'autre Histoire et plus précisement le monde politique de l'époque, en participant à la Commune, choix qui lui confèrera le statut d'artiste maudit, ou plutôt chassé puisque l'exil lui sera inévitable. Polémique à travers son Enterrement à Ornans, frontal par L'origine du monde, narcissique enfin à travers ses innombrables autoportraits, Gustave Courbet méritait que les actuelles institutions culturelles se penchent sur son oeuvre, la dernière monographie lui étant consacrée datant de 1977...
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Jusqu'au 28 janvier.
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Porte Clémenceau, Avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris 8ème.
Ouvert tous les jours de 10h à 22h
sauf le jeudi jusqu'à 20h. Fermé le mardi.
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Après qu’Yves Klein ait fondé en 1960 le mouvement désormais célèbre du Nouveau Réalisme, un groupe d’architectes américains se penche lui aussi sur la société de consommation et de ses objets, en s’associant pour créer Ant Farm, petit monde radical façonné par Doug Michels et Chip Lord. Le Frac Centre présente pour la première fois en France, les travaux performatifs et idéalistes du collectif, où pétarades et situationnisme incongru mènent la danse.
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Pendant que Robert Rauschenberg et Jasper Johns lacèrent et dissemblent les symboles d’une culture capitaliste, Ant Farm éclot sur la côte Ouest des Etats-Unis avec pour vocation ultime, celle de positionner l’art à une échelle notable, à l’instar du courant du Land Art, dans un milieu naturel, voire vierge. Loin des hurluberlus pour lesquels ils ont pu être pris, les membres d' Ant Farm demeurent des architectes avérés, dont les idéaux obsessionnels consuméristes les poussent à réévaluer l’utilité même d’objets tels que l’automobile ou la maison. En effet, si César compressait avec délectation les véhicules en tous genres, Doug Michels, Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier, Hudson Marquez et Douglas Hurr placent le blason de l’Amérique, qu’est la voiture, dans une situation de non-capacité, jusqu’à une utilisation ornementale, voire de " balises" à travers l’installation in situ Cadillac Ranch (1974), qui fait désormais la célébrité de la Route 66 au Texas. Semi-enterrées, dix Cadillac se dressent, alignées les unes derrière les autres, à la manière de Titanic industriels, forcés à sombrer, contraints à l’inertie. Les croquis préparatoires comme finaux sont ainsi présentés au Frac Centre, démontrant une fois encore la mise en œuvre de ce projet colossal, sorte d’anti-culte de l’objet, qui en devient un malgré lui.
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Destruction programmée et pastiches
Considérée aujourd’hui comme une œuvre silencieusement dénonciatrice, Cadillac Ranch ne convoque le spectateur qu’à travers un statut de " pèlerin". Ant Farm pousse la réflexion sur la consommation et les médias, en orchestrant une performance devant un public trié sur le volet : les journalistes de l’époque. Media Burn (1975) est cette fois la mise en scène d’une réelle aversion de la société du spectacle et de ses modes de diffusion. Doug Michels et Curtis Schreier accommodent et pilotent ainsi une Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, qui s’abat sur ce qui s’apparente à un "chamboule-tout " de médias, soit des dizaines de téléviseurs préalablement enflammés. Tinguely n’aurait pas mieux fait. Seules traces de cet événement : les films et photographies de ceux spécifiquement conviés. " Dans le contexte de l’époque, on tentait de s’affranchir de ce système des galeries d’art, ou du produit qu’est l’art. Donc faire une carte postale, cet objet le plus éphémère et évanescent qui soit, nous paraissait tout à fait approprié." explique Chip Lord, membre d’Ant Farm. Le groupe poursuit sa démarche, en réutilisant la portée de l’image - devenue culte par le film d’Abraham Zapruder - de l’assassinat de JF Kennedy. Déguisé en Jackie Kennedy, Doug Michels rejoue la scène, à la manière des identités multiples de feu Michel Journiac, créateur de l’art corporel en France. Mais le caractère d’icône qu’est devenue Jackie Kennedy, est aussi lié aux célèbres sérigraphies d’Andy Warhol, qui la consacre comme image moderne absolue du martyre.
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Entre images clées et mises en scènes fondatrices d’un nouveau positionnement face à la société des années 1970 et à venir, le groupe Ant Farm utilise tous les champs d’action possibles de l’art, en veillant à garder l’essentiel de leur ligne de conduite à l’encontre des mass médias jusqu’en 1978. Une exposition rare, riche de schémas, dessins, vidéos et photographies peu médiatisés. A qui la faute ?!
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Jusqu'au 23 décembre.
Frac Centre
12, Rue de la Tour Neuve
45000 Orléans
Entrée libre.
Ouvert du lundi au vendredi, de 10h à 12h et de 14h à 18h.
Les week-ends et jours fériés de 14h à 18h.
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Figure du design allemand, Konstantin Grcic élabore des objets en pensant d'abord à leur aspect rationnel et à la façon dont l'usager pourra le ranger. Légitimement comparé à l'anglais Jasper Morrison, ce munichois a recours aux matériaux écologiques pour proposer un design élémentaire et efficace. Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs lui donne carte blanche pour un dialogue avec les oeuvres de designers pionniers.
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Un homme, un designer : une optique de conception
Celui qui, enfant, rêvait de devenir pilote de Formule 1, est aujourd'hui l'une des personnalités montantes du design. A 42 ans, Konstantin Grcic a su en effet imposer un certain concept de design, visant, comme ses amis et collègues Sebastian Bergne ou Alberto Meda, une fonctionnalité absolue, laissant derrière lui la création esthétique pure. Théières et tabourets se juxtaposent ainsi dans son travail pour un constant gain d'espace. Cette préoccupation pratique le relie à un mode de production loin de l'objet unique, désuet selon lui. " Je préfère travailler avec les industries, cela me semble plus proche de la réalité de la consommation." Après un passage au Royal College of Art de Londres et la rencontre de Jasper Morrison, il fonde en 1991 sa propre agence Konstantin Grcic/International Design, tout en enseignant dans les écoles, telles que la Beckams School et la Burg Giebichenstein de Halle. Influencé par les travaux d'Ettore Sottsass, il possède une approche particulièrement sensible, plaçant les principes d'ergonomie et de préhension directement dans l'objet, les poignées et anses intégrées dans la forme.
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Confrontations aux oeuvres du Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Si son travail s'inscrit dans un contexte franc et pragmatique, il aborde aussi la conception d'objets avec humour, en clins d'oeils à ses prédécesseurs. L'exposition Small Talk, scénographiée par lui-même, créée des parallèles avec le design d'époques antérieures, souvent moins accessible ou considéré comme quelque chose que l'on observe comme une oeuvre d'art. " Je pense que le design est lié aux arts visuels et à la communication", explique Konstantin Grcic, qui ne cache pas de son admiration pour le plasticien allemand Wolf Vostell, également expert en art vidéo. Ainsi, fait-il résonner sa bassine 2-Hands avec le vide poche de Pierre Legrain, auteur et décorateur de meubles et objets eux-mêmes d'inspirations cubistes et africaines. La vasque rouge aux rebords incurvés semble avoir laissé la place à une circonvolution directe, sans replis ni colonnes supportrices. Idem pour sa lampe Mayday (fleuron parmi ses créations) qui pourrait aisément être prise pour un vaporisateur à vitres, mais qui, résout enfin l'agaçante énigme de la baladeuse dont on ne sait que faire une fois allumée... Stable, elle peut se poser à même le sol comme suspendue par son crochet supérieur. Davantage choisies pour leurs symboliques et leurs pertinences usuelles, les objets ou meubles séléctionnés par Grcic sont accompagnés de textes de Pierre Doze, journaliste spécialisé dans le design et collaborateur de P. Starck.
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Small Talk est une exposition abordant les questions de la forme, de la structure et des matériaux, où les plus jeunes ne font pas qu'imiter les anciens.
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Jusqu'au 27 janvier 2008
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107, rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er.
Ouvert du mardi au vendredi de 11h à 18h. Le samedi et dimanche de 10h à 18h.
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Almost as cryptic as the Lost® scenarii is the work of Daniel Eatock. Shown at the hype Chemistry gallery in London until the bells of 2008 ring.
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The Lost community of fans recently shaked. Revelations on the 'future' of the Others and the Passengers have been made. So is it a hoax or not? Check out and read the comments...someone has been smoking the carpet...LOST REVEALED
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It passed. But the site holds funny things to look at. We Came To Take Jour Jobs Away was an exhibition from RCA students in the Communications Departement. Thanks Valerio for the link!
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Andrea Crews. They are crazy. We will ❤ them! Thanks Fulvia for the link!
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Andrew Hahn, Everything's Gone Green. At the Cardenas-Bellanger gallery in Paris! Check it out!
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Superman was a Jewish hero! yay! An amazing well-researched exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Paris! Go! Fly!
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"De Superman au Chat du rabbin, bande dessinée et mémoires juives".
Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme, Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71, rue du Temple, Paris-III
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Be there and be square!
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A gem! An now in an affordable amazonian edition!
Original edition can still be found for something like 2000USD.
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SWIFT, Jonathan. The Benefit of Farting etc. [Longford in Ireland]: Printed by Simon Bumbubbad, at the Sign of the Wind-Mill opposite Twattling-Street, 1722 reprinted 1735. [bound with] The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders. London, 1722. [And:] A Curious Dissertation on Pissing. N.p., 1787. Early nineteenth-century half red morocco
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Le Cneai à ArtistBook International les 19, 20 et 21 octobre au forum du Centre Pompidou. (Vendredi 16-20 h, samedi 11-19h, dimanche 11-19h)
Editions présentées = Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Continuous Project, Costractedworld, François Curlet, Pascal Doury, Charles Pennequin, Peter Downsbrough, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Christophe Fiat, Yona Friedman, Bernadette Genée et Alain le Borgne, Cameron Jamie, Ben Kinmont, Pierre Leguillon, Ernest T, Robert Morris, Antoni Muntadas, M/M (Paris), Yoshitomo Nara, Allen Ruppersberg, Yann Sérandour, Maxime Sigaud, Maria Spangaro, Jean-Baptiste Bruant, Untel, Bruno Serralongue, Kyoichi Tsuzuki...
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Au Cneai, ile des impressionnistes, Chatou (15mn de la place de l'Etoile-Paris) : Exposition Hors Commerce du 14 octobre au 21 décembre
une commande publique de bibliophilie contemporaine avec les
écrivains et artistes Bernard Dufour/Jacques Henric, Valérie Favre/Maryline
Desbiolles, Erró/Patrick Grainville, Gilles Barbier/Nathalie Quintane,
François Curlet/Chloé Delaume, Sarkis/Frédéric Boyer, Jacques Monory/Tanguy
Viel, Bruno Serralongue/François Bon, Éric Poitevin/Mathieu Lindon, Philippe
Cognée/Paul Fournel, Anne Ferrer/Marie Darrieussecq, Jean-Luc Moulène/Manuel
Joseph.
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Cneai= 3 & 4 novembre prochain: Salon light #4
au Point Ephémère, 200 quai de Valmy, Paris 10ème
pour la quatrième édition consécutive, le Cneai invite une cinquantaine
d'éditeurs européens, à Point Ephémère pour présenter leurs dernières
publications, confidentielles... : livres, magazines, vyniles, cd,
dvd... Avec (liste non exhaustive) : Komplot, Gagarin (be), Zédélé (fr), Meeuw
Muzak, Olé, Extrapool, Currency (nl), Nos Contemporaneos (br), Matt
magazine, Starship (all), Capricious (us), Caja negra (es), Useless , The
Newpaper (uk), Inculte, LMX, Vibrö, Derrière la salle de bains, edizioni
della luna, Interface, Pure présence, Dasein, France fiction, Jhon Magazine,
f.l.t.m.s.t.p.c., PPT, F7, Peau de Lapin, La Plateforme, Checkpoint,
Documentation Céline Duval, Lendroit, Yvette et Paulette, Tiramizu,
Avant-poste (fr), Nieves (ch), Uovo (it).
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A very interesting colloquium held in Paris at the Jeu de Paume.
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Colloque "Photo / Graphisme"
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le samedi 20 octobre 2007 de 9h30 à 17h00
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À l'occasion des expositions Roger Parry à l'Hôtel de Sully, Steichen et UltralabTM à Concorde, le Jeu de Paume ouvre une discussion sur les relations et les échanges ! entre le graphisme et la photographie avec "Photo / Graphisme 1", premier d'une série de colloques sur ce sujet.
Roger Parry, dont la participation en 1930 à Banalité, publication de luxe du texte de Léon-Paul Fargue illustrée de photographies, a fait date, est un photographe atypique, qui a trouvé de nombreux prolongements à sa pratique dans le domaine de l'édition. L'exposition de l'Hôtel de Sully consacre une salle entière aux images et documents liés à la collection "L'Univers des formes" et aux ouvrages qu'il a réalisés sous la direction d'André Malraux.
Edward Steichen n'est pas seulement un photographe célèbre. Il a débuté sa carrière dans une imprimerie. Maître d'œuvre de Camera Work, la revue de photographie d'Alfred Steiglitz, il a très tôt utilisé ses photographies dans les domaines de la presse, de la publicité et de l'information.
Quant à Labomatic, une agence de graphisme très présente dans le milieu de l'art, son activité info! rme en partie la pratique d'Ultralab, "une entité hybride qui a choisi de travailler aux frontières de l'art, de la science et de la communication".
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Ouverture, Marie Muracciole, responsable du service culturel du Jeu de Paume.
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Michel Frizot, " Photo/graphismes de magazines : les possibles de la roto-hélio, 1927-1935"
Michel Frizot, historien de la photographie, chercheur au CNRS et commissaire d'exposition, a notamment publié la Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie (Adam Biro, 1994/2001).
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Roxane Jubert, "Typo/Photo"
Roxane Jubert, graphiste et enseignante à l'ENSAD depuis 1997, est Maître de conférences à l'université Rennes II et chargée de cours à l'université Paris IV. Elle a publié notamment Graphisme, Typographie, Histoire en 2005.
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Victor Margolin, "Aspects de la photographie dans la République de Weimar"
Victor Margolin est professeur émérite de l'histoi! re du design à l'université de l'Illinois à Chicago. Il a fondé la revue Design Issues, et publié récemment The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies, Culture is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art, et Healing the World: A Challenge to Designers.
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Michel Wlassikof, "Futura-Photographie"
Michel Wlassikof est commissaire d'exposition, il enseigne l'histoire du graphisme, il a dirigé la revue Signes, et a publié notamment Histoire du Graphisme en France (MAD, 2005).
APRÈS-MIDI
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Catherine de Smet, "Les livres de Dominique Darbois"
Catherine de Smet, historienne de l'art, commissaire d'exposition, enseigne l'histoire du graphisme et a publié récemment Le Corbusier. Un architecte et ses livres (Lars Müller Publishers, 2005).
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table ronde dirigée par Catherine de Smet, av! ec Céline Duval, artiste et graphiste, Jean-Marie Courant, graphiste, Frédéric Borlotti, membre d'Ultralab et de Labomatic, et Michel Wlassikof.
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Renseignements au 01 47 03 12 41
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Multi-talented designer Brian Roettinger has launched his website. We particularly love all his work for the Californian Architecture School, SciArc!
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If you can't go to the Biennale de Lyon this autumn, maybe you'll rejoyce in the catalog produced by M/M and edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon. English version is also available.
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9e Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon
L’histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée
18 x 23,5 cm (broché, avec jaquette)
304 pages (500 ill. coul.)
28 €
ISBN : 978-2-84066-221-1
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Some nice work from Weingart seen on the blog of Renaud.
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Mr Bettler the King of Bread is a very busy man. Meet him for shopping bags or breading plans at Super Design Market or Gradual!
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The FIAC we ❤!
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good news grabbed on the typorifik blog. B&P typefoundry have just released a new character that is a take on the Romain du Roi created by artist and punchcutter Philippe Grandjean.
Love the RomainBP!
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the 2007 Biennale de Lyon with Hans-Ulrich Obrist as the conceptor! And graphic identity by M/M. Be There, Be Square!
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Yona Friedman the oblique architect will be signing his Manuels (vol.1) at the Centre Pompidou's bookstore on the 20 November 2007. You also have until the 30 September to see his exhibition Dare to Make Your Own Exhibition at the Ile des Impressionnistes, Chatou, France.
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Dare to Make Your Own Exhibition
CNEAI Ile des Impressionistes
78400 Chatou
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Librairie Centre Pompidou
Yona Friedman, Manuels (volume I)
édition Cneai 2007, en partenariat avec le CAPC-Musée d'art contemporain
et Arc en Rêve centre d'architecture de Bordeaux,
isbn 2-84056-251-1
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Benjamin Biolay is launching a new album and M/M are doing the design. Good music. Good forms.
Very GermanoPratin!
infos/ Was is GermanoPratin?, Trash¥é¥é, M/M
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Good friend Ian Lynam is now penning for a brand new blog which promises to be very very neo!
Welcome on the blogosphere!
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Alex Bettler tipped us about LocalArchitecture who recently held a conference in London at Space1. Their work is really refreshing and those Swiss will be representing their country at the next Sao Paulo International Biennal for Architecture and Design.
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Fresh artist Fulvia di Pietrantonio from LA GUARDIA® is doing a solo exhibition. If you happen to be in Brussels this September, run see it!
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opening: zaterdag 22 september, 2007, om 18u
vernissage: samedi 22 septembre, 2007, à 18h
concert: David Néaud & Eric Tatepo Kembo
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30, rue Jourdanstraat
1060 Brussel / Bruxelles
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new publication at ROMA. Fantastic work they're doing!
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Raymond Taudin Chaubot / Cast (Part 4)
56 pp. 24 x 34 cm
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3N17
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But what does 3N17 means?? The new studio created by Quentin Walesch and Catherine Guiral.
See some of their fresh and amazing work in the Great Exhibition Tent, Royal College of Art Summer Show, Hyde Park, London.
infos/ 3N17 / RCA Summer Show 07
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Don't Panic at the Architecture Foundation. Curated by Gerrard O'Carroll. With Graphics by Catherine Guiral and Quentin Walesch. Opens 31 May 2007. -Come! Come! Come!-
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Happy designer Micke Thornsby has his first euro-show coming up. If you're in Barcelona, pay him a visit. He is great.
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Dear All
I would like to invite you for my first solo exhibition in Europe, called "A Bag of Grease".
The show starts Friday June 8th at the great gallery Vallery in Barcelona, Spain.
On display will be a line of especially made big-format posters, the latest line of my own It's Our Thing (together with Matthias at Sweatshop Union) t-shirt/sweatshirt label and those items will also be available to buy in a limited quantity.
"A Bag of Grease" is a collection of works celebrating influences I've carried with me for a long time and in Barcelona they come to life through the posters, t-shirts/sweatshirts, walldrawings and some three-dimensional objects. For you who not know my works too well a collection of older works from the past two years will also be shown. See attached press text for more info.
My aim with this exhibition is not to get a single concept through, the way I work have the last few years been fueled by a restlessness and I've been jumping from making t-shirts to stationary and logos to exhibitions and airbrush-emulations. All this will be well represented in Barcelona, but bigger and better.
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where/when/ Vallery Calabria, 85 08015 Barcelona, Spain/ June 8 (opening). The exhibition will be open June 8 to July 31, 2007.
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The Jan Family. We like.
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Special Day for special people!
(Makin Jan Ma is an ongoing film project. Makin writes stories and scripts and he makes clothes for the characters inside the stories).
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Don't Panic at the Architecture Foundation. Curated by Gerrard O'Carroll. With Graphics by Catherine Guiral and Quentin Walesch. Opens 31 May 2007.
Come to the opening. And release some steam while admiring some emergent critical design by Noam Toran, Dunne&Raby, Mathias Megyeri, Jordy Fu, David Pierce and others...
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A new publication in the vein of Nieves and other online mags. German goodness.
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Like i said! CalArts alumni!
infos/ LIVE FREE--____-----MAN
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Here is the phenomenal work of fantastic McGregor Harp. Those CalArtsians are definitely back in town!
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Earthquakes and Aftershocks was an exhibition of CalArtsian posters in France. It became a catalogue designed by JSLB and STRIPELA's Jon Sueda and Yasmin Khan. Now it is a website you can visit. Wonders to be looked at.
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Finally! Design graphiste Brice Domingues has uploaded his website. Lots of good stuff. We ❤!
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He is a clever, genuine and talented composer. And he has a broadcast with stuff you wouldn't expect. Please meet Stephen Lumenta whose work we ❤!
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Not to be missed! The DVDocumentaries on photographers Cartier-Bresson and Eggleston and the great doc on Punk by director Scott who explores the birth of No Wave in the late 1970s.
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The infamous MfGZ has released yet another gem. This time looking a the links between Italian and Swiss Design. Swissly!
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Soon the work of talented Annika Lischke. We are impatient!
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The New ARC (issue #9 of the Royal College of Art Journal) is finally out. With an article by Catherine Guiral+Randy Nakamura.
Launching at the RCA Art Bar. friday 20/4/2007.
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Perfect and Sublime... The Thonet Chair (c. 1860) — The Prouvé Chair (c.1947)
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Ah! simplicity...the most difficult thing to achieve...
The Mokka 12913 armchair by Paolo Piva for Wittmann.
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The Louis Ghost chair was designed by Starck and produced by Kartell. With a witty mélange of high technology and collective memory it recalls the xviiith chair also known as médaillon Louis XVI.
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Ah ugliness! So attractive... What was the deal with designers and hands anyway...
The 'baseball' couch was designed by De Pas, D'Urbino et Lomazzi and was called Di Maggio in homage to the famous baseballer Joe di Maggio. The overall design reminds me of the pseudo anti-conformism and anti-conventionnal aspect of the pop 70s.
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Some design can be beautifully ugly. Afterall everything is a matter of taste...Dada chair by Enzo Berti.
"Dada has, as its inspiration, the artistic and literary movement founded in 1916 in Zurich by the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara. Dadaism stood as the negation of all rational and received ideas. Instead, it celebrated the act that is gratuitous and arbitrary.
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In one of BureaudeBank pics one prolly recognized the famous Universale chair. This chair was a gift from Joe Colombo to Roberto Crippa. Both artists lived in Milan and studied at the Brera Academy.
They were part of different art groups as Joe Colombo was a member of "Art Nuclear" and Roberto Crippa "Spazialismo," however they knew each other and had mutual friends such as Fontana and Matta. The Vitra Design Museum recently made a complete retrospective of Colombo's retro-futuristic work. Worth checking it again.
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BureaudeBank is a young and dynamic design studio, located in downtown Utrecht,
the Netherlands. We like mucho mas!
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Dear Ladies & Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues & Friends,
I am happy to forward you the information on the international conference Towards a New Visualization of Secrecy? Representations of Secrecy within Contemporary Terrorism and Counterterrorism which takes place on Saturday 24 March 2007 at the Stedelijk Museum CS Amsterdam. If you see any relevance to your own interests, I would be glad if you could include this conference on your own website or you might want to send it to your colleagues & friends & students as well.
With kind regards
Tina Clausmeyer
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Album is out this monday, the playlist is already an invitation to exotico-eerie-cloudian voyages...
1 Space Maker
2 Once Upon A Time
3 One Hell Of A Party (Feat. Jarvis Cocker)
4 Napalm Love
5 Mayfair Song
6 Left Bank
7 Photograph
8 Mer Du Japon
9 Lost Message
10 Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping (Feat. Neil Hannon)
11 Redhead Girl
12 Night Sight
infos/ PS, sculptures by Xavier Veilhan and the wonders of 3D printing rapidforming!
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New Feist Album out in May.
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really good expevideos from Jan Robert Leegte.
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on...off...on...off...on...off
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Design agency Saatchi&Saatchi just created a new device that will redefine the word annoyance.
Funny. Thanks to Yael for the link via TheRawFeed
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3D Bauhaus and good music. Join 50/50 (Mia, Filip and Yuri) at the Royal College of Art!
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The new breed of DesignWithoutLabelians is asking you to (un)label, come come!
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Magnus Thierfelder makes the usual and unnoticed go strange...
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Lost Control
plastic plants, pots, soil. Elastic, Malmö, 2005
Untitled (pause)
Skånes konstförening, Malmö, 2005
Human Behaviour
(Vinyl carpet) Approx. 2 x 3,5m, 2005
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Some really good artists showing in London at the moment. Rush! Rush!
(Top to Bottom: Christoph Büchel, Margaret Salmon, Sean Snyder)
infos/ Büchel at HauserWirth - Salmon at Whitechapel Gallery - Snyder at Lisson
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APC, très Nouvelle Vague....
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We ❤ the very creepy aspect of Rafael Fernàndez's Botanic...ever wanted to let yourself be trapped by a devouring root while you sleep?
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Yr3 and Yr4 of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) are showing their fresh modular design(s) and hidden smartness in Köln and the Salon du Meuble in Paris...until the 25 Jan.
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The most Italianesque of all German designers...
A retro-show of his works will soon be up at the Design Museum in London...rush, rush!
Gotta love those neo-deco-streamlines!
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We ❤ monsieur Konstantin Grcic!
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The Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris is presenting a new generation of Swedish ceramists.
Thanks to EG• for the info.
infos/ CCS/ 2.Feb—29.Apr 2007
where/ Centre culturel suédois, Hôtel de Marle, 11 rue Payenne, 75003 Paris
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nice video! Thanks to Stylepress for pointing it...
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A few must-have...
Jacques Higelin / Amor Doloroso ❤❤❤
Francoise Hardy / (Parenthèses...) ❤❤❤
Juliette Gréco / Le Temps d'une Chanson ❤❤❤
Carla Bruni / No Promises ❤❤
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Cai Quo-Qiang is the new meteorologist in NY...
Clear Sky Black Cloud
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2006
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© Rita McBride
Hexelerator, 2004
Foam and Sisal, each 78 x 121 x 106 cm
room 1, Part I
Good shows still showing in Zurich!
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ah! 5.5 designers we really really ❤ !!!!
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The Softlightes - Heart Made of Sound
A VERY nice stop motion short movie by Kris Moye
You can find the qt on Kris' website HERE
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The man once decided to make one chair a day for a hundred days. The exhibition of Martino Gamper's chairs at the Design Museum is fascinating.
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On the 21.09.2009, Alan Fletcher passed away. There is an amazing exhibition/homage of his life of work to see at the Design Museum in London. Rush, Rush, Rush!
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La Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs aura lieu cette année à Alexandrie.
Brice Domingues a réalisé les visuels de l'évènement.
Pour infos sur l'appel à candidature, voir ci-dessous. Merci.
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Appel à candidature
aux jeunes artistes de Marseille,
du Pays d'Aix,
de Toulon Provence Méditerranée
et de la Région PACA
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13ème Biennale des Jeunes
Créateurs d'Europe et
de la Méditerranée
Alexandrie, Juillet 2007
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•Architecture
•Arts appliqués
•Arts visuels
•Gastronomie
•Images en mouvement / cinéma, vidéo
•Littérature
•Musique
•Spectacle vivant
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Extrait des conditions :
avoir moins de 30 ans (35 ans pour les chorégraphes et metteurs en scène),
être résident dans l'une des villes membres de l'association ou dans la région PACA pour la littérature, la musique et cinéma-vidéo et uniquement à Toulon pour la gastronomiec(cf article 12 du règlement).
démarrer une carrière artistique dans l'une des disciplines ci-dessus.
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Tout le règlement est en ligne sur le site http://www.bjcem.net
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If you happen to be in Lausanne...
The XIe Journee Romande de la Typographie will take place the 18 November 2006.
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Ladislas Mandel famous French-Hungarian type designer recently died. Peter Gabor wrote a beautiful homage to one of the most humanist typographer who, while being asked how he conceived the font Galfra he drew for the French Yellow Pages said: "je dessine pour celui qui lit le moins bien, car les annuaires sont un service d'ordre social qui s'adresse au plus grand nombre" (I draw for the ones who need clear legibility and readibility, the French directories are made for everyone without distinction).
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Yves Klein did his Saut dans le Vide in 1961 and 40 years later Keith Boadwee Leap into the Yard.
Keith Boadwee is visiting faculty in the New Genres department. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in the late 80’s, where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden, who have both been influential on his practice. Boadwee’s work achieved some notoriety in the early to mid 90’s when he was grouped with other artists who were seen as working in the arena of “identity politics.”
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Oliver Laric makes funny things
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Beck's Sea Change Tour poster by Laurent Fétis
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the four different art covers by Jeremy Blake (Art direction & design by Kevin Reagan & Beck Hansen)
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So are designers better than random collagians? Do you think design or do you do design? Or both?
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Sea Change, cover art by Jeremy Blake (comes in 4 different album art cover)
Midnite Vultures, cover art by Yamantaka Eye (some collages by Michel Gondry)
Stereopathetic Soulmanure, cover art by ?
Mutations, photographs by Charlie Gross and Autumn DeWilde
Guero, cover art by Marcel Dzama (member of the Royal Art Lodge)
one of the many covers, seen on amazon®
cover art by fan
cover art by fan
cover art by fan
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Read the very complete article by Dimitri Siegel back at DObs on Beck's latest album Information designed by Beck and Matt Maitland/Gerard Saint at Big Active. The CD case is almost blank (apart from the sticker BECK in lineto's lego letters) and packaged with other artits' stickers so the buyer can create his/her own cover. Conclusion? You too can become a graphic designer! Und viva interactivity!
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©Vanessa Beecroft
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VB12, 1995
VB16, 1996
VB18, 1996
VB16, 1996
VB25, 1996
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There's a bit of Vanessa Beecroft in the visuals of Philippe Katerine's latest album which is, by the way, pretty deliriously delicious for the ears.
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their latest...
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Philippe Ramette revisits surrealcity...
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Realism, Photomontage and Socialist-Realism...
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La Crise, 1923
Rodtchenko
Couverture du catalogue Exposition du cinéma japonais, 1929
El Lissitsky
Le Citadin Solitaire, 1932
Herbert Bayer
Toujours plus haut, 193?
Serafima Vasil’evna Rjangina
Ils ne l'attendaient plus, 1884-88
Ilia Efimovitch Repine
Le Christ dans le désert, 1872
Ivan Nikolaevitch Kramskoï
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a EU, US, UK selection of short movies by big guns who once were young guns.
infos/ Find them a Warp!
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We ❤ the work of Harvey Opgenorth! (thanks Work for the link)
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Kraftwerk, Pocket Calculator
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pocket books variations.
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PleaseLetMeDesign
Belgium Pavilion Catalogue, Xth Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2006
Jonathan Hares
Design Products Dpt Catalogue, Royal College of Art, London, 2006
Antoine&Manuel
La Comédie Saison 2006-2007, Clermont-Ferrand, 2006
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Label Architecture is an architectural practice based in Brussels. Its three partners, Jean-Didier Bergilez (b. 1974), Michel Lefèvre (b. 1978) and Thibaut Rome (b. 1977), officially opened their agency in October 2004...(read more on their website)
Label Architecture curated the Belgian Pavilion at the Xth Architecture Biennale in Venice. Their show is called La Beauté Ordinaire (Ordinary Beauty) and looks at the infra-ordinary in Belgian landscapes. PleaseLetMeDesign worked on the catalogue and it's gutgood. The idea, as mentionned on Renaud Huberlant's blog, was to create a pocket size catalogue to emphasize the big amount of texts. Is it a trend but the recent catalogue for the Design Products Department at the Royal College (designed by Jonathan Hares) and the catalogue for the Comédie Theater in Clermont (designed by Antoine&Manuel) also use the pocket size (11x17cm approx.).
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Never stop going to the movies!
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Catherine Breillat's Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) bares some similitudes with Eugene Delacroix's La Barque de Dante. Look at how the image on the movie poster is an echo to the corpses of the damned trying desesperatly to assault the dinky boat of Dante and Virgilio floating on the Styx. As if they too were doomed.
Visually, the poster is also an echo to the Rubenian way of 'color-coding' bodies. Pale for the female and dark for the male. Strong muscular bodies similar to the terribilita of MichelAngelo.
Delacroix was inspired and copied the masters at the Louvre. Breillat does a bit the same. It's not plain stupid carbon-copy, it's something else. I hope. I'm sure.
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Ernesto Neto presents his installation Leviathan Thot at the Panthéon in Paris. Light masses of lavender powder holding in transparent fabrics and balancing from the uppers of the monumental interior of the Pantheon Chapel. A constant dialog between the contemporary and abstract forms of the Leviathan and the classicism of the Greek revival structure.
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To stay in the mood, some French music from the 60s
infos/ find them at Emarcy Jazz
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If you happen to be in Paris there's an exhibition at the newly 'refurbished-refurnished' Musee des Arts Decoratifs on Cinema and Set Design or how the films can be a source of inspiration, a playground and a time capsule for designers and design products.
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Entrance of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs
A collection of design products from the Middle Age to today...
Minority Report by Steven Spielberg, 2002
L'Inhumaine by Marcel l'Herbier, 1924
Set design by Mallet-Stevens
2001, a Space Odissey by Stanley Kubrick, 1968
La Piscine by Jacques Deray, 1969
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati, 1958
Scoubidou chairs by Guariche, Michel Mortier and Joseph-André Motte
Oscar by Edouard Molinaro, 1962
Le Cerveau by Gérard Oury, 1969
Le Pacha by Georges Lautner, 1967
Lola by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981
set in 1957 Germany...
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Valérie Mréjen is a video-artist. I like to compare her work to the ethno-realism of Rouch. She would prolly disagree. She is less preoccupied in what people have to say than the malaise the camera creates while scrutinating them. The silence is an echo more vibrant than the word. In a way...
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©V.Mréjen
Dieu video, 12'
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Pork and Milk film
©V.Mréjen
Le Gouter 4'03''
©V.Mréjen
Chamonix 35mm
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Malle must have been a big afficionado of Ethno-Cineast Jean Rouch. Rouch was the theorician of the "Ciné-Transe" method. Back in the 60s when filmakers were able to hold the camera on their shoulder and record the sound in synchronization (la synchrone), Rouch coined (along with sociologist Edgar Morin) the word "Cinéma-Réalité". In the movie Chronique d'un été Rouch and Morin went to interview Parisians during a hot summer. The real-reality of the dialogues, the camera-doesn't-lie aspect of the film was a wake-up call to a lot of filmakers.
The camera sees the world not only through the eyes of the cameraman but through the ones who are filmed. The aperture simply being an extension in the most objectif sense of the term.
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Time to rediscover the work of movie director Louis Malle. If the French Nouvelle Vague was a family, Malle would have been a distant cousin, more interested in running his own adventures than following in the footsteps of the Politiques des Auteurs. A magnificent story-teller, LM is also a great documentarist (if the word exists in English!). He directed some very fresh documentaries on various subjects; the Mystery of India, the Ethos and Mythology of the Tour de France and of course his famous World of Silence which depicted the life of Commandant Cousteau and his crew but was more of an ode to Malle's love of the sea.
There is something uterly seductive and provocative in his films. Something Jean-Claude Carriere have described has the work of an Enlightened Child.
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Huyghe's solo exhibition at the Tate Modern is over, we liked it A LOT!
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Renaud Huberlant has a very interesting take on Brenner-Hares' layout for the book The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2005. In French only.
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Soon the opening of Paris' biggest Art fair
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Alec Soth is soon coming to France, in the meantime if you're in California check his exhibition at UC-Riverside (California Museum of Photography, Sleeping by the Mississippi, 5 August-7 October 2006, UC Riverside)
(au Jeu de Paume, Niagara du 16/04 au 13/06 2007, Paris)
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Yael Mer also graduated from the Design Products Dpt at the RCA. Her work is amazingly narrative and poetic, love her bags—a witty homage to the story of Judith and Holopherne.
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Robert Lazzarini and Gen Suzuki (RCA 2006) have something in common...Isometry and Obliqueness
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Gen Suzuki (RCA/ Design Products)
_Oblique coat hanger, 2006
_Oblique chairs, 2006
_Oblique vases, 2006
Robert Lazzarini
_sculptures
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We really love the work of talented graphic designer Christos Lialios
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'Girls Gone Wild'. Sometimes the web is full of surprises...
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ebony ads almost as good as blacksplotation movies...
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In France school just started, some of my friends are about to finish med school this year and traditionally they throw a welcome party for freshmen. For some reasons it is always gross so this post is gross but check out how happy med students look...
(in French a med student is called a 'carabin' not to be confused with the English word 'carabin')
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Sweet animation, you'll enjoy An Eye for Annai
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Bill Thomas and the many ways to commit suicide...
infos/ Suicide is Painless
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A&M are cool clowns
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Ken Garland and Associates are not clowns
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We already mentionned the talented Mr Antony Hart. His website is now completed, pay him a visit and you'll be amazed once again.
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Some goods links by Brice:
✺ Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet
Stephane Barbier Bouvet was born in 1981 in Marseille with the mediterranean sea as landscape and studied at the ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ecal) in the industrial design department. Interesting works, you can see the tools chairs at the international festival of design in Hyères-Villa-Noailles, exhibition from 8th of july to 17th of september 2006 (good exhibition), I particularly appreciate the process and the result of the tools chairs very simple, clear and creative.
✺ Sulki and Min Choi
Sulki and Min Choi two designers reseachers at the Jan van Eyck academie amazing
works ..... (check their design of another Entre-Deux exhibition)
infos/ Atelier BBB, Sulki.com
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Perspeex are good friends Mariina and Jean-Michel. Video artists and crazy musicians. JM lately decided to classify his 207 CDs using a color coding system based on the rainbow.
Thanks PhilB for the image.
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Since 1993, Vienna based artists Bitter/Weber have cooperated on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their artistic works focus on emergent sites and overlaps of architecture, urban developments, communications systems and modes of artistic and cultural production as they are mediated through photography, video and new media technologies.
infos/ B/W
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© Studio Ram Katzir is fun and prolixe!
infos/ RK
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Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro (Spain 1970) and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson (Iceland 1973) live in Rotterdam NL and have collaborated and exhibited internationally since 1996. The work of this artist duo is always on the move. Sometimes taking elements from earlier projects with them to the next place, they once again enter into a relationship with the current surroundings. By means of portraying, mapping, intervening and informally collaborating with people they meet, they explore space, the environment and it’s dynamics in different possible and impossible ways.
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We ❤ the work of Vincent Olinet
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fun to listen!
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Charles Fréger graduate from the Beaux Arts in Rouen, since then he's been busy taking clichés of social groups.
infos/ CF
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Was a while since i hadn't seen some work from Zhang Zhuan...
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Max Streicher makes Bubbles et volatile sculptures.
infos/ MS
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Choose a prolific author and check the evolution of book covers. Rad!
infos/ J.G.Ballard
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We really really like icons.
infos/ Esquire Covers
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We really like icons.
infos/ Life Covers
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We like icons.
infos/ Time Covers
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We love her work and her eye. Stephanie Lacombe is a human who takes pictures.
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S.Lacombe,
Salle de l'Opéra Garnier
30 November 1999, Paris, France
S.Lacombe,
La Grande Borne
Jean-François Junior a un mois, il est dans les bras de sa maman.
01 May 2001, Grigny, Essonne (91), France
S.Lacombe,
Serie Sans Titre
infos/ SL
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Michel Bouvet designed the poster for the 2006 Rencontres d'Arles. The president of the jury was famous French photographer Raymond Depardon.
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Designer-Filmaker Noam Toran gives a very interesting interview about his hybrid practice back at WeMakeMoneyNotArt.
infos/ NT interview
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comeback, comeback not....
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You could listen to Fischerspooner's 'Odyssey'...
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Odyssey
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Demand the Impossible!
(posters 1968 by the Atelier Populaire/ Chemical Brothers 'Push the Button' cover / Saul Bass movie poster 'Advise and Consent', Kickers' ad campaign)
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Art for a Change
Mai 68 Posters
The Chemical Brothers
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Rick Valicenti likes to play with others and we like to watch...
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Gina Vieceli
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Andrea Tinnes
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Swiss Travel Posters, any resemblance with the Legowelt vid might be wanted...
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Hiver En Suisse, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Erich Hermes
Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm
Swiss Airways, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm
Switzerland, Winter Vacation, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Herbert Matter
Chamonix, Ete-Hiver, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Henry Rohm
St. Moritz, Ski, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Carl Moos
Glarnerland & Walensee, lithograph poster archived on Linen, 40" x 25 1/8", Herbert Matter
Silvaplana, Art Print, 51 x 71 cm, Johannes Handschin
Swiss Travel Poster Engelberg
Beautifully archived on linen. 39 3/4" x 25 3/8" stone lithograph in the style of H. Matter.
artist unknown. Printed in Switzerland by A. Trub & co.
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Typeculture has a fab silent video of Mr Goudy!
infos/ the video
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Coincidently enough the motion graphic agency Lobo did a music vid a few years ago for Legowelt (Disco Rout), an obvious homage to Swiss Travel Posters and Designers like H. Matter, H. Bayer and others....
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Matter vs Lobo
(Herbert Matter, Pontresina Engadin. 1935)
Bayer vs Lobo
(Herbert Bayer, Le Pont Transbordeur Marseille, 1928)
infos/ Legowelt vid
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Remember back in the early 90s when the Nikepark campaign re-interpretated the 20s-30s Russian/Fascist posters of the Proletarian Hero? Seems Team Discovery is doing it too in the 2Ks...
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nice video back at Studio Smack, makes you realize how visible type is finally...
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Down Jacket / 2003 / Newspaper photograph combined with portraits taken from paintings by Holbein ('Womansportret', 1523/24 and 'Prins Eduard of Wales', 1539).
Batia Suter is amazing.
infos/ Here
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Micke is another super talented touche-à-tout!
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Brice Domingues is appointed guest editor for RefGrafika. Welcome!
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Matthew Irvine Brown invents objects, gotta love his inspiration to create those narrative-interactive objects...
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Breath Control Car, Product design for beginner musicians.
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PSP/RCA, Concept furniture for PlayStation Portable.
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Baltazar Torres at MAM/Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art (Salzburg-Vienna)
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The return of the return of the return of the deer. It's becoming such a clichesque motif these days that i was starting to get fed up with it. Elaine Bradford takes an interesting twist and, god-of-the-deer bless, my love for that animal is back on track...
infos/ Here
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Adi Nes photographs at gallery Prez-Delavallade.
Something seriously kitsch in those pictures as if the real subject wasn't as obvious as you would think. The one where an Israeli soldier (The Soldiers series, 1999-2000) is climbing up a stick somehow made me think of the Iwo Jima photograph (Joe Rosenthal, 1945), don't ask why, all this erectionvictory stuff maybe...
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Witty body of work from Harald Peter Ström
*Thanks to Brice for the link.
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The amazing work of WT's alumnus Karen van de Kraats
*Thanks to Brice for the link.
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Luarvik is "The only die-hard avantgarde group of new postrock generation leading from Estonia"
infos/ Here
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"The Log1k and iLog are instruments built from logs. ...The Log1k is a log with a gearbox motor that spins wooden disks to produce rhythmic noises, complete with "touch-sensitive switches" -- wait, as opposed to non touch-sensitive switches? Don't forget the flat panel display. (It's a blank opaque flat panel that lights up, in other words. But it is flat.) The iLog is a new portable version with the same wooden toggle switches. The iLog records samples, but much of the sounds have to do with "the bare sound of electricity."
infos/ The Owl Project, Anthony Hall
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Cyprien Gaillard revisits the Dutch engravings of the xvi and xviith centuries, bringing romantic violence to them...
(Belief in the Age of Disbelief, a book project, parodic pastiches of Dutch etchings, text by Payam Sharifi)
infos/ Gallery Laura Bartlett
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an ex member of the collective RADI, visiting tutor at the écal and ironic designer.
infos/ Florence Doléac
*thanks to Brice for the link.
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"The fashion label ®____fabrics interseason
was created by Wally Salner and Johannes Schweiger in 1998.
____fabrics interseason positions itself and its work within an international network of electronic music, fine arts and design. The conceptual working method reflects in extensive research to societal phenomena such as the rise of new poverty or a state of all-inclusive passivity. The idea is taken further including social and culturally constructed conventions of clothing and their identifying character e.g. the mourning dress or clothing standards as seen from a political feminist perspective. Furthermore ____fabrics interseason widens its notion of fashion and design with the in-house record label ego vacuum rec. and the electronic soundtrack releases as well as with conceptional projects and participations in exhibitions within the context of the arts."
infos/ Fabrics
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Superman returns as a new Jesus and Spiderman gets to be Satanesque. I am always fascinated not to say puzzled by the way Hollywood keep seeing the world in black and white. I guess (super)heroes films are trying not to fall into that dichotomy by emphasizing the shades of grey but still...the Rise and Fall and Rise and Shine and Fall Again...sounds like routine to me... or perhaps there is an hidden critique which i don't get?
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Context: The International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno, founded in 1963, is held every other year in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, The main organizers are the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Moravian Gallery in Brno, in the buildings of which the Biennale takes place. The Ministry gives a largest chunk of the money for the event, followed by some sponsor's contributions. It is one of the largest events of its kind, the volume of submissions for the competition part of the Biennale is usually about 5,000 works by several hundred designers, from virtually every continent. From these, items for exhibition are chosen by the selection committee. All of the accepted designs are displayed and the International Jury then awards the Grand prix, prize for the best work in each category, as well as other prizes. The main exhibition is accompanied by a number of associated events - this year, one of them being "Graphic design in the white cube" curated by Peter Bilak. As this small exhibition is very self-conscious about presenting imported graphic design to local public, the poster that you make should somehow reflect on the event itself.
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Dexter Sinister
(Rainfurt & Bailey)
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Stripe
(Sueda & Swanlund)
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Manuel Raeder
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Jan Christensen is poleiform!
JC
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Gotta enjoy the kids from Yale!
Jeffrey Lai
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Hugh Frost is amazing!
run!
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Day to Day Data is an exhibition of artists who collecdt datas. Ellie Harrison is one of them.
DtDD
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Anouk Kruithof is schön! Check her nightmarry series.
Hop!
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too afraid to watch the game on TV? Then why not tune in to m.ash.to to see it all in...ascii.
As France and Italy are battling for the Supreme Title, i'll be keeping the score!
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infos/ Ruth Claxton
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photographs by Elspeth Diederix. She is fab!
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Still Life Milk, 174 x 150 cm
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Arizona, 130 x 170 cm
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Naia del Castillo at Gallery DC4
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Galería Distrito Cu4tro
Bárbara de Braganza 2
E-28004 Madrid - Spain
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Silvia Bächli at Galerie Friedrich (Basel) and at MAMCO (Geneva).
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Talking about Sci-Fi. Is Hollywood on the edge of making a 21st Century Barbarella? Apparently yes and E.T. buddy Drew Barrymore is on top of the list to do at least as good as Jane Fonda who first gave 'flesh' to Jean-Claude Forest's comics character Barbarella.
Now i wonder if the Orgasmatron is gonna make its comeback too? (first mentionned in Woddy Allen's 'Sleeper', the orgasmatron is a torture device invented by Dr Duran-Duran who also calls it the Excessive Machine.).
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After their series of animated movies 'Interstella 5555' (visualized by Kazuhisa Takenouchi with the music of Daft's Discovery album), French electro-rock-punk duo Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo have presented their first feature film at the Cannes 2006 Festival. 'Electroma' tells the story of two robots on a quest for more humanity....
infos/ DaftPunk, Un Gerry Remixé
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"Nasrine Seraji est l'auteure du nouveau bâtiment de l'Ecole d'architecture de Lille, situé à Villeneuve-d'Ascq et inauguré le 25 mai. Esprit ouvert et critique, remarquable enseignante, cette architecte née à Téhéran, diplômée de la prestigieuse école de l'Architectural Association, à Londres, a notamment dirigé l'école d'architecture de l'université Cornell, dans l'Etat de New York. A 49 ans, elle vient d'être nommée directrice de l'Ecole de Paris-Malaquais.
Le bâtiment lillois vient se greffer sur deux édifices (1975 et 1996), construits sans moyens selon la tradition des écoles d'architecture. Ils étaient déjà perchés sur pilotis, pour rappeler peut-être la cabane, élément ancestral et mythologique de la construction."
—Frédéric Edelmann, extrait, Le Monde 01.07.06
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The exhibition Das grosse Stilleben (The Big Still Life) by Klaus Littmann features a department store in Mugron in southern France that has survived largely intact some 30 years after it was closed. Das grosse Stilleben is authentic to the minutest detail. Only a few perishable goods were newly added; everything else originates from the department store in Mugron. The installation sublimes the words of Andy Warhol, who remarked in 1985: "Lock up a department store today, open the door after a hundred years and you will have a Museum of Modern Art."
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'White Noise', isolation tape.
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'Curtain Wall', inkjet print on fabric.
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Funny work by 2005 Design Products graduates at the RCA.
'Juicy Phallus' is a product to allow the single designer to fuck the iconic celebrity of Starck.
© Caroline Noordijk and Kyla Elliott.
infos/ here
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'Gott erscheint am Kopfkissen'. Containers are constructed around the statue at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst in Gent. (click on image to see it larger).
infos/ Tazro Niscino
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'Cone Clock'
A typical clock consists of a box with a graphical time scale at the front. Our impression of time is personal and subjective. As well as showing the time, clocks can give us identity. 'Cone Clock' is reduced to only the hour hand, and any flat surface becomes the face.
'Socket light'
A structure where you can 'plug' spotlights into any angle or direction. The cable becomes the structure of the lamp. It's a wire that you can plug lights into.
Those are just a few of the great design objects by Royal College of Art 2006 graduate, Oscar Diaz. Love it!
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Design Products MA1 at the Royal College of Art, London. Poetic and Situationist work by Jordi Canudas. Made me think of the famous scene in Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor' when Pu-Yi asks his servants to build a wall made of a large piece of clothe and tell them to mimic the wind with their hands. Great.
infos/ Behind The Wall
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© Josef Strau, The Bad Conscience. Serial Novel Part 3. Rousseau L'Angelus, Foret Noire 2006
lamp stand, lamp shades, electriacl cable, string, ribbon, photographs, Tipp Ex and book
165 x 50 x 100 cms, 64 61/64 x 19 11/16 x 39 3/8 ins
Group Exhibition
Our Marvellous Ambitions
(Brian Griffiths, Sascha Hahn, Haim Steinbach, Josef Strau)
Vilma Gold — London
10 June - 22 July 2006
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© Neal Rock and Newbetter, Hydan
Neal Rock & Newbetter
FA Projects — London
25 May - 15 July 2006
Roquebrune, France 1952: Le Corbusier’s Cabanon was completed, fusing rustic domesticity with high Modernist detailing at the site of his eventual, mysterious death. In New York, the same year, Jackson Pollock executed the last of his monumental action paintings: Blue Poles No.11.
Pittsburgh 1968: George. A Romero finished filming the first of his ‘Dead’ series. In Paris, Roland Barthes completed his seminal essay ‘The Death of The Author’.
These two moments provide a conceptual framework to the collaboration between Newbetter (Joshua Bolchover, Shumon Basar, Parag Sharma) and British Artist Neal Rock, for Rock’s second exhibition at f a projects. Newbetter’s constructed environment houses the filmic contrivances of Rock’s silicon painted sculptures in a tableaux that owes as much to Le Corbusier’s Cabanon as it does to the later fabrication of Sam Raimi’s ‘The Evil Dead’ gore-effects.
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© Francis Upritchard, Borrowed Carpet (detail) 2006
Around the World in Eighty Days
South London Gallery
24 May - 16 July 2006
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© Bas Jan Ader, "Farewell to Faraway Friends," color photography, 1971
Bas Jan Ader
Camden Arts Centre — London
28 April - 02 July 2006
infos/ Article by Jody Zellen
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IDEAL CITY - INVISIBLE CITIES
in Zamosc, Poland (18 June - 22 May 2006)
and in Potsdam, Germany (09 Sept - 22 Oct 2006)
Curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter / European Art Projects
Commissioner: Anda Rottenberg, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
The project is dedicated to one of the outstanding cultural themes: The Ideal City and its sibling the Invisible City. Forty artists comment and reflect on this idea in two European cities, Zamosc, Poland and Potsdam, Germany, which today are still recognisable as ideal city plannings.
Since the renaissance, visual artists have been intensely interested in the concept of the Ideal City, even though most of them remained unrealised, invisible cities. This continues until Constant’s “New Babylon” and the projects of the Archigram group in the 1960s. In the last 25 years, however, this idea no longer played a noteworthy role in artistic discourse although many artists deal with the thematic field of space/house/city in their works. The general absence of utopian thinking in the political realm and society seems to be also manifest in art.
The idea of the Ideal City was always closely tied to the question of how a society should best be set up. The physical shape of the city often developed parallel to political-social utopias. The hesitation about the theme of the “Ideal City” is also based in the suspicion of totalitarianism under which utopias in general meanwhile stand. Following geometrical regularities, usually planned in the form of orthogonal grids, ideal cities were regarded as a sign and _expression of rationality. The use of the grid for city layouts often found its continuation in the individual buildings, whose facades and forms varied similar basic modules.
Today, the fascination exerted by the idea of the ideal city is primarily aesthetic. But the strict grid and rational structure are not exhausted in the charm of the surface; the utopian spirit beneath it is palpable – including its ominousness. Especially today, when the discourse about form and development of urban space is governed by current themes like the ‘Megalopolis’ or ‘Shrinking Cities’, it seems necessary to give the concept of the Ideal City a fresh glance while also searching for traces of the many invisible cities.
infos/ Invisible Cities
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image/ © Otobong Nkanga, Workmen in Pool 1, 2005, Courtesy the artist
JUNE 30, 2006 - AUGUST 27, 2006
SNAP JUDGMENTS: NEW POSITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography has maintained a vital presence in African culture for over a century. But the recognition of African photographers and their unique visual language has come about only recently. When Western photography engages Africa, it seems often to evoke pathological images of disease, corruption, and poverty. The global media almost never depict contemporary Africans in ordinary situations; images of crisis frequently eclipse other representations. In response to this partial view that overlooks the complexities of daily life across a vast continent of over fifty nations, 'Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography' forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising across Africa.
The curator Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute, and Artistic Director of Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, in Seville, Spain. He was artistic Director of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002) and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997). Enwezor has curated numerous exhibitions including: The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994; In-Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present; and Global Conceptualism. He has joined the International Center of Photography as an adjunct curator.
infos/ Miami Art Central
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© General Idea "Nazi Milk" (1979) Photo: Peter MacCallum
GENERAL IDEA
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
25 June - 20 Aug 2006
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They're witty, obliquely funny product designers from Paris. '5 by 5' as a certain someone would have said. Please go see the works of 5.5 designers.
infos/ 5.5
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Just finished the website of talented photographer Julia Grassi. Check out her work, it's both sharp and moving, the clichés of a generation...
infos/ Julia Grassi
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she is incredibly talented and funny and witty and her projects with partner Olivier Foulon are cleverly crazy crafts of humour.
Must love Ella & Olivier!
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great music! From Ian's point of view 'beats Daft Punk with a stick'...i can only agree although i'll definitely put my hands on the last DF opus (memorabilia!)
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the left one is by Manuel Raeder, the right one is by Atypyk
:-)
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sit on your computer!
funny-witty design re-appropriation by duo at MIXKO
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a good design shop displaying the young scene from around the globe.
infos/ h e r e
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typically made for nerds...extra lovely!
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[text © Sabine Modder] Singapore designer Jason Ong wants us to look outward towards projecting and achieving happiness with his Chair for Day Dreamers. Perched far above the madding crowds, one can reflect in peace and quiet. Basing his design on the typical lifeguard chair, Ong removed the hind legs to create tension, with the goal of having the ascension be a leap of faith. Another interesting detail is the increased height of the first step ��the first bold step in chasing a dream.� Also of note are Ong�s Void Series of fiberglass chairs. All very relaxing�
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The umbrella is the new weatherman-woman....
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erdem akan
three amigos side table
reincarnated from porcelain pizza plates
©maybe design 2003
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a great yet simple idea...
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it could have been done a few decades ago under another -ism period...
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Gerrit Rietveld
Zig zag 1932-1934 - Production Metz & Co
© Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
Maison Martin Margiela
Collection Automne/Hiver 2002-2003 Look 20-21
© Maison Martin Margiela
Bread and Butter have designed the chronologically absurd exhibition "Design vous avez dit Design?" (Design or is it?) which tries to redefine the word [d][e][s][i][g][n]. From everyday design, to graphic design passing by fashion design what is this word encompassing now?
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Mudac, Lausanne.
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Eero Aarnio
Pastille Adelta - 1968
© Trapholt
Ole Jensen
Thermos Ole Royal Copenhagen - 2003
© Trapholt
Designers love it! Long hated until the 60s and the fascination for science-fiction revived it, plastic is now a part of the designers' props. Love it or hate it.
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Joe Colombo in his Elda chair
1967
© Ignazia Favata, Studio Joe Colombo, Milan
Photo : Vitra Design Museum / Andreas Sütterlin
Joe Colombo Chariot Boby
1970
© Ignazia Favata, Studio Joe Colombo, Milan
Joe Colombo Tubular Chair
1969
© Vitra Design Museum Collection
This guy was "inventing the future": in-between the kitsch decors of a wanabee Bond movie and markers of design history like the Elda chair enjoy the magnificently swinging sixties design of Joe Colombo!
exhibition / Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames Strasse 1, Weil-am-Rhein (Ger)
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Monica Förster
Metal table and laser dye-cutting "Dot, Cake, Sun"
© Nola - 2005
Photograph taken during the exhibition in Helsingborg (2005)
© Cathrine von Hauswolff
- Rug "Polka" by Gunilla Lagerhem-Ullberg - Kasthall, 2005.
- Sleepers by Pia Wallén - Pia Wallén AB, 2005.
- Kid's chair "Miss Flatchair" by Elin Basander Lundin - BasanderLundin Design, 2005.
- Vases "Metal Queen" by Sara Szyber - FormTanke, 2004.
a cartography of Swedish design from the 50s (and the H55 exhibition in homage to the Svenska Slöjdföreningen now the Svensk Form) to the 2000s. A coherent travel through popular and clever form design.
infos/ CCS
exhibition / Mairie de Paris
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See the crazy work of Luis Nieto graduate student at ENSAD and his friend Carlito H E R E
Carlitopolis I Luis Nieto
2005, 3"10'
Un mélange de prises de vue réelles et images de synthèses nous fait douter de la véracité des images, et aussi des mots.
« Carlitopolis » montre un étudiant qui présente son projet de fin d’études devant un jury. Un acte banal qui peu à peu devient une performance absurde et trompeuse, où une petite souris de laboratoire appelée Carlito subi toutes sortes d’expériences. Qu’est-ce qui est vrai, qu’est-ce qui est faux ?
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Dieter Roth
Literaturwurst (Martin Walser: Halbzeit) (Literature sausage [Martin Walser: Halftime]) 1961
chopped book pressed into sausage shape, frame 20 x 16 x 4 in.
Edition: 50
© Estate of Dieter Roth
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A wonderful petite merveille! The young (and old) british pop-rock scene revisits and revives the gainsbourian tunes. Lovable!
