minimalism
on the streets!
“Anyone
can make a monochrome. Most of us probably have made one at some time
or another, although we wouldn’t necessarily have recognised it.
And we wouldn’t necessarily need to have made one, as most of the
time we are already surrounded by ready-made monochromes of various shapes
and sizes. The world is full of unintended, sometimes accidental, often
temporary, and mostly unnoticed monochromes...Every city is a museum of
the inadvertent monochrome”
David
Batchelor, In bed with the monochrome.
From an Aesthetic point of view, Philosophy, Art and the Senses.
Edited by Peter Osborne. Serpent’s Tail, 2000
From an Aesthetic point of view, Philosophy, Art and the Senses.
Edited by Peter Osborne. Serpent’s Tail, 2000
Send
me a photo of found, ready-made monochrome
from your city, town or village, along with details or where and when
you found it plus any miscellaneous details you think are interesting.
It could be an unused, painted over or papered over billboard or sign,
side of a truck, fence round a construction site, side of a building,
anything, any colour. The only rule is that you can’t have made
it yourself.
send
real stuff to the man from icon, flat 3, 56 brunswick road,
hove, bn3 1dh, uk
send
digital stuff to info@themanfromicon.com
deadline:
30th june 2007 || download pdf of details here
|| documentation to all
click
on the images below to see contributions to date, plus ones I've found
out and about
