Untitled (Yawn) (2009), by Julien Bismuth
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Adam Vackar
‘Main d’œuvre’ (2008) by Adam Vackar
In the project Main d’œuvre,Vackar invited a worker to an academy of fine arts to make his own self-portrait in clay. In the fifties under the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, as part of the communist utopia, workers were invited to make and teach art at the art schools.
Sonja Feldmeier
‘Phantom 00’ by Sonja Feldmeier
Feldmeier looked for individuals who believe in or admire an idol. These persons had to describe the faces of their idols using only their imagination. A digital picture archive and software used by the criminal police to create identikit pictures was used as basic drawing material.
Piet Mondrian
On February 1st 1944 Piet Mondrian died from pneumonia in New York. He was buried in Cypress Hills cemetary in Brooklyn, New York.
Peter Blake
Peter Blake, ‘Self-Portrait with Badges’ (1961)