THAT'S ALL SOCKS !

Des Hughes <3

Blastover Socks, 2018  

59cm x 44cm

Chukwumaa  <3

 $1 (I DON’T WANT TO GO TO AMERICA AGAIN, OOO!), 2018, Packing tape, confetti, hospital garment bag, Glo Mobile instruction manual, 5 x 10 x 20 in.

Mathieu Mercier <3

Marionnette, 2017

Liam Fallon <3

Hirotaka Nakagawa <3

Jolies Chaussettes

Adapt. du japonais par Antonin Poirée. Illustrations de 100% Orange - Hors Série Giboulées, Gallimard Jeunesse, Parution : 20-04-2007

JMBN <3

(Julie Marchal + Mathilde Barrio Nuevo)

HELLO KITTY, Résine acrylique, tissu, sable - 21x20x18 cm - 2019       Sculpture réalisée pour illustrer le texte L'Anglais de Shaun Levin publié dans la Revue Terrain Vague 5                                      

<3 ANNE BREGEAUT

Des Choses Perdues, 2013, peinture vinylique sur bois, pâte à modeler, chaînette, 36 x 44 x 20 cm.

<3 Pauline Rima

Sans titre, acrylique sur bois découpé, 157 x 90 cm -  2019

<3 BAPTISTE BRUNELLO

Baptiste Brunello commence à naître dans le Haut Jura au début des années 80 d'un père gardien de stade et d'une mère caissière de supermarché.

Une curiosité relative aux arts plastiques, doublée d'un goût marqué pour le mot, les filles et la musique le pousseront très tôt à l'échec scolaire. Pourtant détenteur d'un carnet de liaison et de la carte de cantine, dès 1992, il se consacre entièrement au gribouillage dans la marge et à la poésie. À Saint-Claude, le rugby est une religion, en piètre sportif, il n'y jouira d’aucune reconnaissance. La rudesse du climat, celle des esprits comme la situation particulière de la petite cité pipière (ville ceinturée par une suite ininterrompue de barrières naturelles) alimenteront largement son besoin d’exil et d’indépendance. Incapable d’approcher le niveau scolaire requis pour entrer au lycée, il "s’oriente" seul vers un Brevet d’Études Professionnelles de couturier-tailleur avant d’envisager une spécialisation dans le costume de scène à Dole. Lassé de coudre à l’affilée des babouches pour les 80 pieds des 40 voleurs, il abandonne pour un temps le projet d’être costumier…

À l’été 2000, il quitte la Franche Comté pour s’installer dans le sud de la France. Il y travaillera comme ébéniste et poursuivra parallèlement des travaux plastiques et d’écriture qui lui offriront d’intégrer l’École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Nîmes. Tour à tour auteur, vidéaste, assistant de réalisateur, chansonnier, performeur et plasticien, il s’installe à Bruxelles en 2011 où il créera, avec 2 amis, un lieu de curiosité – LYCAON – principalement dédié aux formes vivantes incongrues.

<3 MARK JENKINS

<3 ANTOINE DUCHENET

 Chaussettes Doré Doré fantaisie à damier sur fond noir taille 44 et support pvc - 2018

<3 JOHN BALDESSARI

FOOT AND STOCKING (WITH BIG TOE EXPOSED)

Screenprint in colors with fabric and paper collage, 2010, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 15/45, on museum board, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, and with their inkstamp on the verso, framed sheet: 50 by 33 in. (127 by 83.8 cm.) frame: 58 5/8  by 40 5/8  in. (149 by 103.3 cm.)

John Baldessari is internationally acclaimed and acknowledged as an innovator of Conceptual Art. These dramatic, large-scale (50 x 33 inches) prints are a continuation of Baldessari’s exploration of isolated body parts, unconventional in the realm of fine art. Through careful manipulation of scale and perspective, Baldessari has created a delightful and intriguing presentation of an otherwise banal subject, and has titled each to correspond with his studio staff-member’s name, as if they were portraits. Much like his successful previous Noses & Ears series, Baldessari surprises with a juxtaposition of photography and bold sampling of color-blocking. With Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed), the viewer is equally seduced by the exposed toenail as by the larger ominous form that has been concealed.

The six bold and colorful prints recently published by the Los Angeles-based artists’ workshop, Gemini G.E.L. will be on view at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl from October 7th to November 6th. In addition, selections from this series will be presented November 3-7 at the IFPDA Print Fair. Furthermore, the New York debut of Baldessari's Foot and Stocking series is will coincide with the opening of Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to survey over five decades of Baldessari's work.

<3 VINCENT KOHLER

Socks - Edition 2017, Linocut 4 colors, Dimensions 69 x 49 cm, Copies / 60 ex Publisher Lendroit edition, Rennes.

Vincent Kohler began his practice of sculpture and painting, for example by creating phantasmagoric animals, like a potato monster. These experiences led him to imagine sculptures inspired by existing objects but transformed and diverted from their original function, to which he added movement or other artifices (haunted parquet, smoking mountain, giant radish, ...). He developed a multifaceted artistic practice. between sculpture, painting, and video. He was a member of the PAC collective and its CAP exhibition venue and currently of the Abc collective. He taught drums, formed the rock group Kunst and published Bricopolis an artist's book for children.

<3 ISABELLE PLAT

Chaussette d’homme N°2, 2015 ;  cheveux de Charolais feutrés ; 22 x 16 x 9 cm.

Isabelle Plat is an artist who deals with social issues with the most serious, but she does so with humor, distance and freshness. Faithful to its historical research axes, it always intervenes where it does not expect. We must not stop at the light aspect of his work, and always look for the political message behind his series of long works.Humor is the best weapon of his feminism, which is expressed by a joyous profusion of the schematic representation of the sex of the man.

<3 ÉDOUARD NARDON

Édouard Nardon, born in France, lives and works in New York City.

Currently working on large paintings and abstract sculptures involving tarot reading and parachutes, artist Édouard Nardon explores various elements, mediums and materials (industrial latex, acrylic, plastic combs, steel, glass, toothbrushes, razor blades) to create his own identity.

<3 MARC BELL

Marc Bell is a Canadian cartoonist and artist. He was initially known for creating comic strips (such as Shrimpy and Paul), but Bell has also created several exhibitions of his mixed media work and watercoloured drawings.

<3 BASTIEN CONTRAIRE

 born in 1982.

Without artistic formation, he founded with Romina Pelagatti the alternative publishing house « Papier Gaché » in 2008, wishing to publish free drawings and comics. This activity of artist and publisher allows him to experiment in multiple directions. Absurd narration , work on  constraints, questions on the  matter of the page: cutting devices, foldings, collages relate his work to a  creative DIY.

It is by hand-making the covers of the magazine that he publishes that he adopts the technique of the stencil.

He appreciates the repetition of forms, the constraints and the use of modest means.

His first book, Les Intrus, was published in October 2016 by Albin Michel, Phaidon, Zorro Rojo and Ekdoseis Kokkino.

Printed with only two colors, he develops a minimal but still very playful approach that characterizes his practice in children's literature.

He has also created with Romina Pelagatti and Volker Zimmermann the festival Fanzines! in Paris in 2010.

This event aims to reveal the latest trends in graphic arts through the prism of micro-publishing