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...

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...

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...

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...