Nendo, Designers

chocolate-pencils

• for Hironobu Tsujiguchi

Chocolate-pencils is a collaboration with patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu, the mastermind behind popular dessert shops like Mont St. Claire and Le Chocolat de H. Tsujiguchi created a new dessert based on his impression of nendo after conversations with us, and we designed new tableware for them. 

We wanted our plates to show off the beauty of meals and desserts like a painting on a canvas. Based on this idea, our “chocolate pencils” come in a number of cocoa blends that vary in intensity, and chocophiles can use the special “pencil sharpener” that comes with our plate to grate chocolate onto their dessert. Pencil filings are usually the unwanted remains of sharpening a pencil, but in this case, they’re the star!

Student Blogs, Fall 2018

9:00 Class
Gaby Adorno
Kate Barker
Blake Cotton
Justin Cottrell
Jesse Esteves
Alyssa Kneeland
Mary Lewis
Leonore Maliszewski
Channing Mulholland
Korey Nelson
Taylor Pettine
Lily Ramirez
Abby Richardson
Rich Savidge
Jen Vojt
Amelia Weber


1:00 Class
Bianca Bongiorno
Reagan Caron
Noah Cook
Allison Davis
Annie Fox
Chayce Gunderson
Rachel Lee
Alexa Lisanti
Jordan McCrea
Timaree McKenny
Leila Morales
Danielle Rohter
Ashley Sellers
Bailey Shuler
Molly Vogel

Various Artists, Fluxkit Objects

More to see on the Museum of Modern Art. Link below.

https://www.moma.org/collection/?classifications=19&include_uncataloged_works=1&locale=en&page=15&direction=

Christo
Package
1965

Mieko Shiomi
Water Music from Fluxkit
1965

Alison Knowles
Bean Rolls from Fluxkit
1965

Hi Red Center
Canned Mystery
1964

Meiko Shiomi
Spatial Poem No. 1
1965

Mieko Shiomi
Endless Box from Fluxkit
1963-65

Yoko Ono
Night Air July 13 1964
1964

Yoko Ono: Future Now

Go to the link below to read about Yoko Ono's work. Ono was a participant in the Fluxus group during the 1960's and 70's. The article discusses Ono's work with Fluxus and her current work. Written by Rachel Kent for Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

https://www.mca.com.au/stories-and-ideas/publications/future-now-curatorial-essay/

George, Film by Jeffrey Perkins

"...this film will, no doubt, now heavily influence the ongoing decades-old parameters of a discussion about whether Maciunas was, indeed, “one of” the Fluxus founders or The Founder and whether Fluxus is, was, or will be actually a “movement” or even “art,” at all."   -Mark Bloch for the Brooklyn Rail

Go to link below to read full article.

https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/artseen/JEFFREY-PERKINS-George

3D Printing

source link

https://3dprint.com/81751/german-artists-glitches/

7 Objects/69

Various Artists: David Bradshaw, Eva Hesse, Stephen Kaltenbach, Bruce Nauman, Alan Saret, 

Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier

1969

Source is Museum of Modern Art. Link here. 

ACT UP Art Box

ACT UP Art Box

Various Artists: Nancy Spero, Ross Bleckner, Mike Kelley, Simon Leung, Louise Bourgeois, 

Kiki Smith, Lorna Simpson

1993 - 1994

Source: Museum of Modern Art. Link here. 

Gabriel Orozco, Artist

PENSKE WORK PROJECT: BLACK AND WHITE GAME

1998

CARDBOARD BOX; PLASTICENE

2 ½ X 16 ¼ X 13 IN. ( 6.4 X 41.3 X 33 CM )

Fluxus Boxes

Fluxkit, 1964/65. Fluxus edition, assembled by George Maciunas (American, 1931-1978). Mixed media (vinyl attaché case), printed matter. 

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Gift Box for John Cage: Spell Your Name with These Objects, 1972.  George Maciunas.Leather- covered, red velvet-lined box containing fifteen objects (acorn, egg, glass stopper, plastic boxes of seeds, etc.).

Flux Year Box 2, 1967. Eric Andersen, George Brecht, John Cale, John Cavanaugh, Willem de Ridder, Albert Fine, Ken Friedman, Fred Lieberman, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, James Riddle, Paul Sharits, Bob Sheff, Stanley Vanderbeek, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts. Mixed Media, Multiples, Other.

A signature Fluxus production, is a boxed anthology of works by 17 artists that was edited and assembled by Fluxus “chairman” George Maciunas. The second in a planned annual series, this piece was conceived as a “game box” that would hold small objects, flip books, cards, and films, including a handheld viewer for looking at the 8mm film loops. Fluxus artists valued a do-it-yourself aesthetic, using whatever materials were on hand and choosing simplicity over complexity. Like all Fluxus editions, the contents of each box vary depending on what Maciunas had available at the time.

Geoffrey Hendricks
Sky Box
1960's

Gift Box for Jerold Ordover: Spell Your Name with These Objects, ca. 1970. George Maciunas. Assorted objects in leatherette and velvet-lined box.

Joseph Bueys, Artist

Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of “social sculpture” attempted to make art more democratic by collapsing the space between life and art. His work I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) remains a seminal piece of performance art. In the work, Beuys, over the course of three days, locked himself in a room with a live coyote, armed only with layers of felt and a cane. “Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives,” he once mused. Born on May 12, 1921 in Krefield, Germany, Beuys fought in World War II and was injured in a plane crash in 1943, an experience that would feature heavily in his future artistic practice. He enrolled in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1947, and after being appointed professor of monumental sculpture at the school in 1961, he joined the Fluxus group along with Nam June Paik and George Maciunas, only to leave the movement four years later. He performed in his first documenta exhibition in the early 1960s, and was dismissed from his teaching appointment in 1972 after accepting students who were previously rejected from the Akademie. Beuys died January 23, 1986 in Düsseldorf, Germany at the age of 64. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others.source is artnet. link here. 

George Brecht, Artist

Name kit, 1965

    Transparent plastic box with seven 

    compartments containing small objects 

    and printed card, 9.2 x 12 x 2.3 cm

George Brecht, (George MacDiarmid), American conceptual artist and sculptor (born Aug. 27, 1926, New York, N.Y.—died Dec. 5, 2008, Cologne, Ger.), created art from an approach that valued fluid boundaries between artistic disciplines and playful engagement with the viewer. Brecht attended (1946–50) the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and took a job as a research chemist but soon became inspired by the works of avant-garde composer John Cage. Although Brecht’s own attempts at composition were short-lived, he retained from Cage both an interest in chance and a focus on multimedia “events” as defining elements of his work, and by the early 1960s he was affiliated with the Fluxus movement, a like-minded group of conceptual artists. Brecht was especially known for his sculptural installations of everyday objects and for his use of written instructions, which he called “event scores,” in the creation of art.

1964

Essentially, while a group of artists who were all considered Fluxus existed, they did not all agree to the same ideals and each viewed Fluxus in a different way. As filmmaker George Brecht put it, "In Fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or methods; individuals with something unnamable in common have simply coalesced to publish and perform their work." Source is The Art Story. Link here. 

Rita Sobral, Artist

Damion Silver

Artist Website link here. 

Edward Keinholz, Artist

Edward Kienholz
Untitled 1959

John Wells, Artist

John Wells
Whitehole
1941

Ellen Gallagher, Artist, b. USA 1965

"The artist "whites out" such features as lips, hair, or wigs with yellow plastacine. These then stand out from the surface as a kind of sculptural relief, lovingly formed elements that read as a voluptuous ornamentation. They accentuate precisely the racial attributes the products were intended to diminish. The malleable putty is striated and carved in ways that recall African tribal art, although that's not the exclusive cultural reference." From article.com. Link here.

"I scan pages from advertisements about control: acne, unruly hair, corns, bunions, and asthma. These all have particular class connotations, and I remember hearing, as a child, that you got asthma from cockroaches, from enclosed spaces. Constriction is interesting to me as the loss of control of something as elemental as your breath. Corns and bunions have something specific about them too, something so black, that is funny to me. But they have a specificity that is not about race but rather about skin and about being on your feet all the time. Just like the ads have their own material history, plasticine was used for stop-action animation to suggest motion and also to make models. These structures are built out of whimsy but are also very tectonic." From Ellen Gallagher Talks. Link here.

From db artmag. Link here.

Daring as a Woman: An Interview with Lorna Simpson

Use link below to read interview with Lorna Simpson in the Paris Review:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/10/daring-woman-interview-lorna-simpson/

Cultural Identity

Use link below to read article from TATE:

https://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms/collection/themes/cultural-identity

Jenny Holzer
Protect Protect
2007

Ellen Gallagher
Paper Cup
1996