n° 2 - February 2013
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7 IC ONIC LOVEWORKS FROM C ONTEMPOR ARY ART MASTERS
With Valentine’s Day coming up, you will have to show how much exactly you love your sweatheart (read: how big is your present)! La Gazette listed its top 7 love-themed contemporary artworks that you should have offered (or done) once in a lifetime to your lover!! Abramovic and her lover Ulay top the list with their ultimate act of trust in their 1988 performance. For 4 minutes, she holds the handle of a bow while Ulay bends the rope with an arrow that could at any moment be sent into her heart. Ai Weiwei’s provocative June 1994 photo action comes second. The picture executed 5 years after the Tiananmen massacre shows leggy fellow artist Lu Qing (now Ai’s 1. Marina Abramovic “Rest Energy”/1988 wife) lifting her nearly 2. Ai Weiwei “June 1994, Tiananmen square”/1994 transparent skirt as she 3. Jeff Koons “Hanging Heart”/2006 4. Robert Indiana “Love”/1970 stands, bikini panties 5. Maurizio Cattalan’s “L.O.V.E.”/2010 revealed, in front of 1. 6. Wim Delvoye’s “Lick”/2000 the entrance gate to 7. Damien Hirst “Big Love, Diamond Dust”/2010 the Forbidden City.
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A RT IST OF TH E MON TH:
D U C HA M P A 100 years ago, Marcel Duchamp, the godfather of contemporary art, presented his first famous readymade, “Bicycle Wheel”. Less known is his late love and obsession with chess.
At a certain point, Duchamp’s obsession with chess so distressed his first wife that she glued his pieces to the board. Sometime in the early Every month, La Gazette brings a chapter from the book “How to be a successful contemporary artist from A to Z” by the Leroy Brothers. www.leroybrothers.net
Brand yourself and your style. Are you negligent posh? Punk chic? Trendy smooth? Cutting-edge? Nerdy cool? Whatever you call it, be true to your style. It’s your gold!
1930s, Duchamp reached the height of his chess ability, but realized that he had little chance of winning recognition in top-level competitions. In the following years, his participation in chess tournaments declined, but he discovered correspondence chess and became a chess journalist, writing weekly newspaper columns. While his contemporaries were achieving spectacular success in the art world by selling their works to high-society collectors, Duchamp observed, “I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”
“Lack of charisma can be fatal!” - Jenny Holzer Be authentic. Do what you do. No one likes wannabes. Nerds managed to be cool! Capice? You don’t want a girl who’s faking it! Do you? Be genuine and everything works out. That may sound corny, but it’s true. Don’t be rehashed and uninspiring! Transcend the crowd with originality! If you like copying what’s done before and prefer to receive orders to create, you’ll make a great assistant. Surely an absolutely superb and fascinating job being a team player in a successful artist’s studio! That way you can be part of the studio without dealing with all the hassle your master and owner has to put up with. You can go home at night and not have to think about work until the next morning. You’d be paid regularly and
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“The Chess Players” on view at Le Boudoir
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EXPO “The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns” at Barbican London 14 Feb-9 Jun / Mise en scène by Philippe Parreno
travel the world without getting the bill. No need to take extra risks. That’s what a good assistant gets. But then, you’re not a great artist. Not even a good one. Posers are immediately detected. No doubt. Posers are executed and ignored by accomplished professionals. No one wants to be executed or ignored. Don’t be one of those artists who ramble on about the art world not getting their work. “Don’t be bitter. Be Better” - Mark Kostabi Keep in mind that everything you do or show publically becomes part of your personal brand image. Are you the one who’s always trashed at openings? People will start to know you as such. If you can live with that, that’s fine. It’s probably better than standing in a corner where you will pass unnoticed. Although, …
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