The Duchamp Dictionary: An authoritative, alphabetically arranged exploration of the artist’s life and work

The Duchamp Dictionary


The controversy and academic analysis surrounding the work of French-American painter Marcel Duchamp remains a focal point in art history circles. With Thomas Girst’s new alphabetically arranged exploration of the artist—”The Duchamp Dictionary”—it has never…

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Ten illustrated posters for The Double up for grabs

With the film opening in the UK today, we have ten copies of Empire Design‘s fantastic illustrated poster for The Double to give away (detail shown, above). Click through to see how you can win one…

Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, the Double is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same name and follows the story of a rather awkward fellow (Eisenberg), driven to despair after his life is usurped by someone who looks exactly like him, but is his behavioural opposite.

In our post about the eye-catching new photographic posters created for the film, Empire say that the illustrated version (above) was inspired by one created for Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps which also features bold 3D type.

In keeping with the darkness and claustrophobic atmosphere of the photographic versions, the illustrated cityscape is lit solely by a spotlight shining on a lone protagonist. Empire art director John Calvert worked on the poster with illustrator Warren Holder – the full version is shown below.

And we have ten copies of the illustrated poster to give away, courtesy of StudioCanal.

To win one all you have to do is come up with a suitable title for a film of any genre starring a designer, or with design as its subject. Puns are more than welcomed. The Kern of the Screw, Dr Embargo, or even The Man With the Golden Swatch, for example, could easily be ones you might not want to use.

And, really, we know you can do much better.

So leave your film title suggestions in the comments below, along with your name and email address, and we’ll pick our top five and annouce the winners next week. The deadline for entries is 10am GMT on Monday April 7.

The Double is in UK cinemas today. See more of Empire’s work here.


Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders : The photographer’s immersive look at ’60s outlaw motorcycle culture returns to print in original form

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders


Motorcycle culture has always held a place in American society and—thanks to iconic films like “The Wild Ones,” “Stone” and “Easy Rider”—the concept of the outlaw biker has continued to intrigue those with wayward inclinations. With one hand on the throttle and the…

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3D Food Impression

Foodini est une imprimante alimentaire 3D qui permet de réaliser de la nourriture ressemblant à n’importe quelle cuisine. Un appareil conçu pour être utilisé tous les jours, pour une cuisine sucrée ou salée combinant la technologie de la nourriture, l’art et la conception. Le tout est à découvrir en photos et vidéo.


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Pomme de terre violette.

Viande hamburger.

Impression viande.

Hamburger ouvert.

Impression fromage.

Fish and chips.

Impression pâte à pizza.

Impression sauce pizza.

Pizza avant cuisson.

Pizza.

Quiches épinards en dinosaures.

Spaghetti.

Impression pâte à hamburger.

Cookies de Saint Valentin.

Arbre de Noel en chocolat.

Impression chocolat.

Chocolat.

Arbre de Noel en cookies.

Cookies.

Chocolat 2014.

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Daniel Arsham Rocks (and Minerals)

arshamArtist Daniel Arsham has a knack for transforming familiar objects into fossils of the future: petrified payphones, eroded basketballs, a calcified McDonalds sign. His latest solo exhibition, “Kick the Tires and Light the Fires,” opens Saturday at OHWOW in Los Angeles—and then it’s onto Paris for a summertime show at Perrotin—but in the meantime, his Steel Eroded Hasselblad Camera (2014, pictured), a shimmering relic of steel fragments, shattered glass, and hydrostone, is now up for grabs in the MTV RE:DEFINE Auction on Paddle8.

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MoMA Collaborates with Uniqlo on Pollock Tees, Warhol Totes, and More

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Cover yourself in Jackson Pollock‘s inky drips, schlep your stuff under the cover of Warholian camouflage, and wear the creative feats of Keith Haring on your feet—all for less than the price of admission to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The institution has teamed up with Japanese fast-fashion chain Uniqlo on a line of wearables printed with images from works in the MoMA collection, including details from two of Pollock’s 1950 works on paper that have been transposed to cotton t-shirts, a tote bag covered in a collage of Basquiat drawings, and a bandanna featuring Warhol’s tomato-red can of Campbell’s soup from 1962. The Uniqlo at MoMA collection, part of the retailer’s SPRZ NY (“Surprise New York”) project, is now available at at the MoMA Store as well as Uniqlo. Nothing is over $50.

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Artist Replaces Billboard Ads with Art in Milano

Après la ville de Paris, l’artiste français Etienne Lavie s’attaque aux panneaux publicitaires de la ville de Milan, en les remplaçant par des peintures classiques et célèbres. L’artiste utilise l’art comme un substitut de la publicité, le tout dans un décor urbain. Une belle série à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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Anish Kapoor: Symphony for a Beloved Sun catalogue

Anish Kapoor’s first major solo show in Germany was accompanied by a handsome catalogue stained with red oil and designed by UK studio, Brighten the Corners. It has just won them the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club

Symphony for a Beloved Sun was held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The central work of the show consisted of a series of large conveyor belts, set up high in the space, which dropped heavy blocks of red wax onto the museum floor.

Brighten the Corners say that the notion of “tension” created by putting contemporary artworks within the neo-Rennaisance environment of the Martin-Gropius-Bau was something they wanted to reflect in the show’s publication.

Each catalogue’s cover is stained with red oil paint which then seeps through into its first pages. The book is also sewn with a bright red thread and boasts a red ‘cut’ to its edge.

“We wanted our book, itself a reference to the first Martin-Gropius-Bau catalogue of 1890, to be both elegant and unsettling,” say BTC.

“Maintaining the strict classical grid for all text and images meant that landscape images stretched across two pages, occupying the space they needed and reminding the reader of the works’ scale. Finding the right landscape images was a job in itself – hours were spent with Anish Kapoor studio in the photo archive.”

“Typographic chapter dividers grouped the works into categories and played further with scale by visually exploiting the font (Stempel Garmamond) and letting it have its moment in the book.”

The catalogue is published by Walter Koenig. Brighten the Corners are in Tokyo to receive the TDC Grand Prize this week and will also give a talk at the Design Forum, TDC Day. See
tdctokyo.org and brightenthecorners.com.


Suspended

Filmmaker Andrew Telling has collaborated with artist Chloe Early on a mesmerising short to promote her forthcoming exhibition, Suspended.

Suspended opens at The Outsiders Gallery in London this week and features a series of paintings exploring weightlessness and gravity. “It’s also a contemporary response to religious renaissance paintings and questions what we worship, and how we experience ecstacy and wonder, in today’s society,” says Early.

In a striking alternative to a traditional documentary-style teaser, Telling uses colour, textures and movement to create a “meditative” piece capturing Early’s source material and creative process.

The film opens with hazy shots of aerial performer Tamzen Moulding suspended in mid-air, before cutting to close-ups of swirling paints and Early at work:

Early has previously worked with Moulding on a number of projects and conducts photoshoots with aerial artists to use as inspiration for her paintings.

Telling’s footage of the performer jumping on a trampoline was filmed at London’s Truman Brewery using a 20-foot-high scaffolding structure, which allowed him to capture a range of angles and backdrops.

The hazy opening scenes were created using a smoke machine, explains Telling: “as Tamzen would jump and go through various movements, it would turn to this haze for around 15 to 20 seconds, before it ended up looking like actual smoke. We did lots of takes to capture that moment in between but for me, it adds to the euphoric feeling you see in Chloe’s paintings,” he says.

Beautifully vivid shots of colliding paint were filmed in one take using no specialist rig or equipment, just a Pyrex roasting dish. “I think we did ten different colour scenarios, and whatever we had left after that, we just kept adding on top,” says Telling.

“[Using] a Pyrex dish meant we could light it below, but work with a small surface area for greater effect, which is why you see waves of colour from all different angles,” he adds.

“I was worried about treading common ground filming liquids, but I feel it works well as it incorporates Chloe’s colour palette whilst mirroring the movement from Tamzen,” he says.

Telling has worked on several promotional films for artists including HelloVon and Conor Harington, as well as brand films for Rapha, Kvadrat, Cos and Converse – you can read a feature on his work in our December 2013 issue.

He often works alone, single-handedly directing, filming, editing and composing an original score, but says Suspended is his most collaborative project yet.

“Working with a bigger team in production and post-production… allowed me to concentrate on the concept and the film’s narrative. When you see Chloe’s paintings in the flesh, there is so much depth and motion and you always see the figures in a wider context.

“The overall concept of the film, for me, is about this feeling of movement that you see [from] the documentary style shots of Chloe working in her studio to the more polished slow-mo ones of Tamzen and paints colliding. I felt the film needed to be [an] introspective view inside the paintings, [capturing] what is happening in the movement, and what it feels like and sounds like,” he adds.

Credits

Director/Editor – Andrew Telling

DOP – Thomas Wooton

Assistant – Alex Hyndman

Music – Lucinda Chua

Grade – Jon Leese-Pomfret

Titles – Christopher Thompson

Not Art by Warsheh

Le projet Not Art est le fruit de la collaboration entre les jordaniens Mothanna Hussein et Hadi Alaeddin, réunis sous le nom de Warsheh. Voulant combiner des peintures classiques à des représentations géométriques minimalistes, ces œuvres jouent sur le Nombre d’Or, afin de proposer de très beaux visuels.

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