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objet perdu:
If one focuses not only on the found object, but on the context it leaves behind when disappeared, this focus constitutes the objet perdu. M. P.
related voices:
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting.
Fuer die Herren Kunstkritiker fuege ich hinzu, dass es ein weit groesseres Koennen erfordert, aus der kuenstlerisch nicht geformten Natur Werke auszuschneiden. K. S.
Read Ceçi n'est pas une pipe by Michel Foucault. M. B.
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stars & stripes series of objet perdu, 2002/03 (motive: stars & stripes/urban detritus) Die Dichter finden den Kehricht der Gesellschaft auf ihrer Strasse und ihren heroischen Vorwurf eben an ihr. (...) Lumpensammler oder Poet - der Abhub geht beide an W. B. Hier haben wir einen Mann - er hat die Abfälle des vergangenen Tages in der Hauptstadt aufzusammeln. Alles, was die große Stadt fortwarf, alles, was sie verlor, alles, was sie verachtete, alles, was sie zertrat - er legt davon das Register an und er sammelt es. Er kollationiert die Annalen der Ausschweifung, das Capharnaum des Abhubs; er sondert die Dinge, er trifft eine kluge Wahl; er verfährt wie ein Geizhals mit einem Schatz Charles Baudelaire (nach W. B.) |
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soviet stars series of objet perdu, 2003 (motive: soviet star/urban detritus) |
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hearts series of objet perdu, 2006 (motive: hearts/urban detritus) |
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schwarzrotgold series of objet perdu, 2005/06 (motive: schwarzrotgold/urban detritus) |
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strassenmoebel series of objet perdu, 2007 (motive: strassenmöbel/urban detritus) strassenmoebel (literal translation is street furniture, but strassenmoebel is also a bureaucratic term for sculpture in public space, often used derogative) is a series of objets perdu by Michalis Pichler, realised on occasion of a collaborative clandestine attempt to contest Skulpturen Projekte Muenster in 2007.
Mounted every ten years and previously hosted in 1977, 1987, and 1997, this large international exhibition invites artists from all over the world to create public Art in the city of Münster. One of the (official) artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, presented a theme park composed of 1:4-scale replicas of 36 selected sculptures from past Skulptur Projekte exhibitions. Every object is a precise reproduction of the original and is set in relation to the others.
Eleven artists from different cities, working primarily in the urban space without permission, traveled to Münster to create illegal public art within the context of the Sculpture Project Münster exhibition. In addition, each of the 11 artists installed a 1:4 model of their illegal intervention(s) within the Dominique Gonzales-Forester theme park. (In total about 36 new models were installed, eventually half of them realised)
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The New York Times Flag Profile
The New York Times Flag Profile is a selfpublished newspaper printed in rotation offset in an edition of 1000.
All 144 of the American flags from the New York Times issued on the first anniversary of September 11 have been cut out and pasted into a newspaper with everything else left blank.
For one day (on the second anniversary of 9-11, in 2003) the New York Times Flag Profile was offered (for the price of $1) along with the real daily papers at local groceries and Newspaper stores in Brooklyn and Manhattan. |
