{"id":11522,"date":"2011-01-24T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:24:55","slug":"berlin-paris-motto-presents-olaf-nicolai-blondies-librairie-yvon-lambert-28012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=11522","title":{"rendered":"Berlin-Paris 2011. Motto presents Olaf Nicolai, Blondies @ Librairie Yvon Lambert. 28.01.2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Berlin \u2013 Paris 2011
\nMotto presents Olaf Nicolai, Blondies @ Librairie Yvon Lambert.
\nOpening Reception: Friday 28 January 2011. 6pm<\/p>\n

On occasion of the third edition of Berlin-Paris, Motto has invited the German artist Olaf Nicolai\u00a0with a carte blanche for an artist project.
\nNicolai has chosen to present his project “BLOND” (and with it its corresponding artist\u2019s book\u00a0“The Blondes”), for the occasion rearranged in a new installation, “Blondies”, specifically for the situation at the bookstore, using the material that accompanied the originally project for the first time. With this arrangement\u00a0Nicolai demonstrates in a playful way his conception of an artist\u2019s book as a complex tool whose character oscillates between documentation, artwork and the starting point for new artistic inventions.<\/p>\n

For the original project “BLOND” in the city centre of Tilburg \/ Netherlands and later in Amsterdam a barbershop was installed temporarily. The shop\u2019s special offer \u2013 a professional hairdresser who dyed the customers\u2019 hair blond free of charge \u2013 was made known by placing advertisements in the daily press. The free bleaching was subject to the condition that each customer agreed to be photographed before and after the bleaching and consented to further artistic use of this documentation.<\/p>\n

Instead of featuring product advertisement, the wall and window displays of the salon functioned as display surfaces for an exhibition. In addition to photos of famous examples of the\u00a0Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne\u00a0of “blondness\u201d, pictures of performances or reproductions of art works (by Andy Warhol, Vanessa Beecroft, Karen Kilimnik, Douglas Gordon, Santiago Sierra, Olaf Breuning and many others) based on the trade mark “blond\u201d were exhibited, transforming the shop into a mixture of a beauty parlour, art gallery and mantelpiece display.<\/p>\n

42 of the photographs taken during the project “BLOND” were selected from the collection. They were compiled as an independent art series, \u201cThe Blondes\u201d, (2003 \/ 2004).\u00a0In the artist\u2019s book \u201cThe Blondes\u201d (2005) the photographs are reproduced in original size. The book\u2019s design allows each image to be detached and used individually. The motifs of this series also provide the material for\u00a0subsequent new works, in which they themselves may also become the screen for new projections. Thereby, the logic of simulation is perpetuated:<\/p>\n

Two photographs of the series appeared in 2004\u00a0on concert tour posters and on the cover of the new album of the band F.S.K and in 2007, in a shopping street in a Southern German city, all 42 portraits were used as flag motifs.<\/p>\n

A selection of books curated by Motto will also be on display.<\/p>\n

Librairie Yvon Lambert
\n108, rue Vieille-du-Temple
\n75003 Paris
\nT. +33(0)142 710933
\nMon – Sat. 10am – 7pm<\/p>\n

www.yvon-lambert.com
\nwww.mottodistribution.com
\nwww.berlin-paris.fr<\/p>\n

(image courtesy: Olaf Nicolai, Eigen+Art Leipzig\/Berlin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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