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...

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...

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...

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...