Véronique Branquinho

Thanks for Véronique Branquinho telling us what beauty is

Gareth Pugh SS2015

" The handwork, the ceremonial aspects, the playful and sometimes outlandish practices, and the unnerving notion of an outsider society, all deeply resonate with me " explains Pugh.

Giles Deacon "Design Disrupted" Spring Summer 2015

Advertising Agency: Team One, California

Creative Directors: Ryan Didonato, Andrew Smart

Media Director: Kirsten Atkinson 

Associate Media Director: Shelley Cartland

PR Director: Meg Seiler

PR Management Supervisor: Daphne Dobbs

PR Supervisor: Kat Kirsch

National Research and Partnership Manager: Lissy Galton

Assistant Account Executive: Channel Smith 

Production Company: Legs Media, New York

Executive Producer/ Founder: Adam Joseph

Executive Producer: Tom Berendsen

Director: Radical Friend

Creative Directors: Andrew Thomas Huang, Radical Friend

Producer: Jonathan Lia

Line Producer: Carrie Bornstein

Production Supervisor: Alli Maxwell

Choreographer: Ryan Heffington

Music Composition: HEALTH

Designer: Giles Deacon

Make-Up: Kabuki

Graphic Elements: Logan Seaman

VFX: Dorian Orange

Video Production: BootLegs

Lighting: Stanton Collective

Motion Graphics, Set Design and Visual Systems: Obscura Digital

Holographic Display: Musion

Video Editor: Nuno Xico and Bennett Barbakow

Alexander Calder

(July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976)
An American artist and sculptor

" Why must art be static? "

" Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. "

" The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours – of the greatest variety and disparity. "

" My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. "

" The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form. "

Louise Nevelson

(September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) 

An American sculptor born in Czarist Russia

" There was some experimenting with painting them,

and also different woods put together, 

the tonalities, 

but not very much because 

I didn't want to make sculpture and 

I didn't want to make form as such and

I got through that very fast 

I wanted really to get beyond that.

I never thought I made sculpture or made anything. 

I'm not looking to make anything. 

I want something else entirely. 

I want that extra dimension where you don't make things; 

you live with that place and 

you give that place a form and 

in that place where you give form you bring back here and 

hope to communicate on that level. 

Some people do get it. 

Even if it's a little late, 

they get it. 

I don't know if I've said it well, 

but I'll say it again: 

I don't want to make sculpture and

I don't want to make paintings; 

I'm not looking to make anything. 

I myself need, 

for my place of consciousness, a form.

It's almost like you are an architect that's building through shadow and light and dark. 

You are really an architect in that place, 

but you don't want to make buildings for people; 

you are -- in another dimension 

you are the architect, you see. 

But it's a very real world. 

I never use a word like "imagination" because

that word "imagination" means to me that 

you extend immediately to that great dimension.

So it's not imagination. 

It's a great reality 

but the material you are using is in that place instead of in this place, 

you see. 

So it isn't through the intellect, 

it's through vision that you give form and structure to that place. 

And so, naturally, you are an architect in that place. "

" Memory "

"Like mood boards you'd pin your favorite images to,"he said.

Chris Burden

Born in Boston in 1946, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, France and Italy.
An American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.

SHOOT  (November 19, 1971)

"At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend.
The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle.
My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me."

 Trans-fixed (April 23, 1974) 

"Inside a small garage on Speedway Avenue,

I stood on the rear bumper of a Volkswagen.

I lay on my back over the rear section of the car,

stretching my arms onto the roof. Nails are driven through my palms onto the roof of the car. 

The garage door was opened and the car was pushed half way out into the speedway. 

Screaming for me the engine was run at full speed for two minutes. 

After two minutes, 

the engine was turned off and the car pushed back into the garage. 

The door was closed."