From L’Officiel
Art:
This ninth
artist cover allows L’Officiel Art to
go even more collector. For the first time, the logo has also been left to an
artist’s reinterpretation. Oscar Murillo used this carte blanche to deliver a
very personal work, which he conceived while he was working on his exhibition
at the Mistake Room in Los Angeles.
For the
logo, Oscar Murillo chose to use David Hammons’ work African American Flag which he had photographed in Harlem. He used
it as a pattern to customize the three letters of the word “ART.”
“Carlos my uncle had become a travel companion and collaborator, a witness to some of the wonders that one encounters on the marathon that is being an artist. On a pre-Christmas trip to LA in preparation for the Mistake Room, Carlos and I were invited to stay in a beautiful 1930s villa, the Pink Panther! It was a week of indulgence in Beverly Hills. Concurrently it was a physical, psychological and cultural clash, the perfect opportunity to establish an image for what it has meant to no longer work Sundays. This picture of Carlos is the quintessence of my project: ‘I don’t work Sundays’ is the subtext and the manifested antithesis of a series of earlier exhibitions, installations, performances and video works.”
200 copies
of the magazine with this collector cover version have been printed.
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