by engine8design | Exhibitions
Exhibition feature article written by Mitchel McInnis Beauty is a tricky concept in contemporary art. There are multitudes of painters willing to dish beauty up to viewers by the bucketful—obvious, unmistakable and without mystery. Unfortunately, such painters are...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers Just prior to moving to Munich in 1912, Marcel Duchamp accompanied Gaby Picabia and Apollinaire to a performance of Raymond Roussel’s play Impressions of Africa in Paris. Roussel, the obscure French author and playwright heavily influenced by...
by engine8design | Exhibitions
Artist statement from Instrumentation of Being: Inner Contours and The Personification of Place. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to walk through the abandoned railroad shops situated in the middle of Livingston, Montana. Not knowing what visual rarities I was...
by engine8design | Collaborations
Written by Brad Bunkers As I wander through life, steadily advancing across an arc that connects dawn and dusk, friendships ebb and flow. Some friendships are lifelong, others fleeting, some are profound, others more superficial — all are treasured yet impermanent in...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers In 1917, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, a factory-made urinal, was rejected as being unoriginal and outlandish. After almost ninety years, Duchamp is still shocking the globe—from the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition in...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Written by Brad Bunkers Pubic hairs imbedded in soap bars, revolting inhumane acts caught on film, garish reproductions of Michael Jackson and puppies. Contemporary artists working within the realm of shock are often linked back to Marcel Duchamp. On the surface,...
by engine8design | Collaborations
Artist statement by Brad Bunkers from a theatre set design collaboration project. Imagine Picasso and Einstein debating the intricacies of art, physics and genius in a pocket-sized Paris bar. The year is 1904, just a few years before two sea-change achievements:...
by engine8design | Duchamp
Text from Janis Mink, “Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art” The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-192 “The Large Glass has been called a love machine, but it is actually a machine of suffering. Its upper and...
