In the latest Vogue Living magazine - issue march/April 09, Georgie Bean writes about what we do, and who we do it with.
Thanks Anne Marie Kiely, Georgie Bean and Marcel (don't ask what he was making me say while taking my photo).
Hi everyone,
we finally made it. Phew!!!! A new website to start this cracking good year. In October we opened a store in Fitzroy which is part store and part museum, of things we like and/or produce for our bespoke clients.
Pop in and see us. If not, have a look online and you can experience some of the things we sell and are doing from the comfort of you own home.
We look forward in the hearing from you. Please join our mailing list too, we will be publishing news from around the world on what we are doing, and what our collaborators are up to also.
warm regards
Abigail Crompton
Director
Check out the new Decalart we have just launched in its new packaging. If you are a retailer and would like to stock them - please follow the link to the wordwide distributor Idea Books
Longtime advocates of the relationship between art and the everyday, we now invite you to play like children. With the thoughtful assistance of artists from around the globe with the mind of a philosopher, the soul of an artist and the eyes of a designer.… Join in, we promise it’ll be fun!
The process of ‘Decalcomania’ stretches back into the history of art as a playful and curious technique to transfer work from one surface to another. German artist Max Ernst was a ‘Decalcomaniac’ as were surrealists Oscar Dominguez and Hans Bellmer. But who could blame them? The act of this transfer could transform a surface or object, including form and function and our perception of its meaning.
We are all more familiar with the decal in a commercial context – most notably Letraset® who popularized the method on a wide scale in 1950’s until the widespread use of the personal computer and printing methods at the end of the 20th Century. After Letraset® the typeface was never the same, it has completely been transformed by transfer.
Now in the new millennium Third Drawer Down©, in collaboration with a stable of international artists and designers is commencing a decalcomania renaissance.
“There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now”. - Lawrence Lessig, lawyer and writer.
365 drawings specially done by Mrzyk & Moriceau for a 2009 calendar: one drawing a day as this prolific duo mingles everyday themes and images. Far from being separate works, however, these drawings interact, echo each other and join up in an ongoing movement. Whether cynical, playful, grotesque or absurd, each drawing pulls us into its intuitively created world, mistreating the accepted norms, the limitations of the frame and the passing of time.
Virtuoso exponents of line drawings of successions of figures with their roots in the unconscious and popular culture, Mrzyk & Moriceau use a wide range of formats and mediums to propose a shifted glance on the real world as much as on the practice of drawing itself.
The subject of monographic exhibitions in Spain (Caixa Forum, Barcelona), Germany (Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne), Switzerland (Mamco, Geneva) and the United States (LACMA, Los Angeles), Mrzyk & Moriceau's work is to be found in many public collections, notably the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, where a wall painting is on permanent display.
A widget made by Gaël Hugo from the calendar drawings can be freely downloaded by clicking here (for Mac).
Six-volume reprint of the “FILE Megazine” issues.
Among artists’ magazines and periodicals, “FILE Megazine” occupies avery unique position: between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists’ collaborative General Idea (active 1969–1994) published 26 issues of this sophisticated, though self-published, magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. Its name and logo adapted those of the famous “LIFE”—whose heyday was in the 1950s and early 1960s—demonstrating an already very Pop strategy of appropriation. As it was retrospectively put by AA Bronson, one of the member of the collective, the magazine’s purpose has been the search of “an alternative to the Alternative Press”, a subversive concept of infiltration within mainstream media and culture. Thus the early issues’ manifestos, lists of addresses, and letters from friends, were rapidly replaced by General Idea’s scripts and projects and cultural issues (as in the famous “Glamour” or “Punk” issues), while never loosing a cutting-edge attention to emerging practices on the art scene and experimental lay-outs.
This six-volume reprint features all the issues, reproduced page by page, in a slightly modified format. It provides the rare opportunity for an art, design, and culture-orientated audience to own these long out-of-print and much sought-after magazines in a complete box-set edition.
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