Les bains. Résidence d'artistes
Drago Arts & Communication
Edited by Marois J.-P.
Roma, 2014; paperback, pp. 192, col. ill., cm 20x25.
ISBN: 88-88493-97-2
- EAN13: 9788888493978
Subject: Design,Essays (Art or Architecture),Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures)
Period: 1960- Contemporary Period
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Weight: 1.27 kg
"It is on November day that Jeanne-Pierre Marois, owner of the building were was located les Bains Douches, the most iconic Parisian night club for over thirty years, contacted Magda Danysz, the Paris and Shanghai owner of MD Galleries. Together they set up an unrealistic project that most people would have brushed off: a 4 month artistic residency where artists carefully selected by the gallery owner would be invited to take over this legendary location. Yet the project had some constraints, from the lack of budget, the required utmost discretion - the place being closed to the public since 2010 - and, last but not least, the fact that each and every art piece created would have to be destroyed in the end as the building would go under a total embellishment program in order to be transformed in a luxury hotel.
This book is the testimony of this amazing adventure, with the participation of 50 artists from all around the world, representing all the street art generations, and whose only aim was to create masterpieces, as a final tribute to this legendary Paris night club, returned to its former glory." (Stéphane Bisseuil)