Leilah Weinraub selected the items on the Top Ten feature in the 2011 summer issue of ARTFORUM.
She sweetly included my current work in her list. Check the the online version here.
Some images of the print version, arranged with personal items on my desk:
Cover of Artforum Summer 2011 issue with original print from Gary Leonard, ceramic banana by Alivia Zivich and hand-sewn and painted silk neklace by Katrin Jurati
Artforum magazine with ceramic banana by Alivia Zivich, sculpture by Erik Tyberg, hand-sewn and painted silk necklace by Katrin Jurati, Comme des Garçons neon wallet, and Japanese toy lips
Some images from the series ʻHistory of the World – Adams and Crenshaw’ by Nicolau Vergueiro and Marco Antonio Prado:
This body of work is made from layers of posters that had been affixed atop one another over time,
reclaimed from a wall outside a mechanic shop at Adams and Crenshaw Blvds. The top layer had
been painted black. By peeling away different sections of the numerous layers, compositions are created
by revealing the hidden images of the posters.
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PROPAGANDA FROM PROPAGANDA -
Alexander Rodchenko, Untitled Illustration from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Pro Eto”, 1923
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919
Collage, as art medium, fully developed in the early 20th century, facilitated by the emergence of mechanically reproduced images.
Avant-garde movements of the time used ads and other printed images to relay their aesthetics and ideals. Propaganda from propaganda.
In the 1950’s, the affichistes Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé emerged. Their work utilized torn city posters, or affiches lacérées, as their medium to create ready-made compositions.
Raymond Hains, Poster in Yiddish, 1950
Jacques Villeglé, ABC, 1959
Fellow affichiste Mimmo Rotella stands out by concentrating his subject matter and source materials to movie posters and their stars, most notably, Marilyn Monroe:
Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 1966
Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 1962
Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 1972
In the 70′s and 80′s the lacerated poster became synonymous with the branding of the punk movement. The literal anti-establishment aesthetic continued to explore a critique of capitalist production/consumerism, only to became a marketing tool itself.
Sex Pistols iphone wallpaper
FROM ONE WALL TO ANOTHER – recent artwork utilizing posters:
Richard Prince's site-specific installation at the Hong Kong Museum of Art for the exhibition 'Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation', 2009
Klara Liden, installation shot at Serpentine Gallery, London, 2010.
Mark Bradford's post-Katrina ark, part of Prospect 1, 2008
