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Warhol TV

As an undisclosed Warhol fan, fan, fan, I was extremely happy to see Warhol TV and all his media experiments with all these cool artist (except Courtney Love)

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Stefano Arienti

In an article about Giò Marconi fabulous gallery space and artists, I read these lines on Stefano Arienti defacing a portrait of Marilyn Monroe with a eraser, it facinated me and I had to share it: "A magnificent Marilyn poster is violated by Stefano Arienti’s eraser,...

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Mirela Popa Defacing

Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d'Amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008. [podcast format="video"]http://www.pablogt.com/podcasts/MirelaPopa.m4v[/podcast] Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer

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Heekyung de Raucourt Defacing

Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d'Amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008. [podcast format="video"]http://www.pablogt.com/podcasts/HeekyungdeRaucourt.m4v[/podcast] Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer

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Wang Du

Wang Du's International Kebab, a rotating installation where the public is invited to attack the art work with a bread cutting knife falls in the Defacing movement that I keep referencing in this blog. Can anybody else see it happening? More on Wang Du at La Force de...

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Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth does some defacing too: "For his ongoing series, Following the right hand, Pierre Bismuth does just that. He projects a feature film onto a sheet of Plexiglas and painstakingly follows the movements of the lead actress’ right hand with a black marker....

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Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle

Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle do some defacing on their Natural Education project. "What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau tell us? He says that we are born weak, that we are born stupid, without judgement; unprovided for, we need aid. This aid will come to us from...

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Defacing Dictators

Drawing my friends for the second defacing project was an interesting and enriching process where I tried to match my perception of their personality with their portrait and that was quite a reminiscent approach that in most cases brought me a smile. Drawing dictators...

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Matt and Kim

For those of you traveling to New York tomorrow, here is a cool way to experience Times Square...  a new cool video by the band Matt and Kim. via fubiz [flash http://data.fubiz.net/lessons.flv w=640 h=360 mode=0]

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Annie Kevans

While researching the images to use in upcoming exhibition Not Welcome from my Defacing Art Project, I found this artist that imagines portraits of dictators as boys. I found this approach to representation of power and sociopolitical systems very interesting: "My...

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The Radicant

The radicant is becoming my little white bible... “In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a...

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Altermodern Manifesto

POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live Our daily lives...

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Making of DADE

Check out the making of the film DADE directed by Françoise Ellong and shot by David Wolfer, they use print outs of my latest Defacing works.

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Laurent de Raucourt Defacing

Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d'amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008. [podcast format="video"]http://www.pablogt.com/podcasts/LaurentdeRaucourt.m4v[/podcast] Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer

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Charly Garcia

While transforming it is always good to look back... Do you know this Modern Clics boy? youtube him [podcast]http://www.pablogt.com/uploads/2009/04/charly-garcia-03raros-peinados-nuevos.mp3[/podcast]

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Khadija Maach defacing

[podcast format="video" width="640" height="360"]http://www.pablogt.com/podcasts/KhadijaMaach.m4v[/podcast] Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer

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Ludovic Le Couster & Sébastien Preschoux

While hicking on the the outskirts forests of Paris (right around where Vincent van Gogh lived his last days: Auvers Sur Oise) we found some installations while we were walking... later on that afternoon we met one of the artists doing the installations and were happy...

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