flomm does some duchamp – in lumber

“In 1913, a mas­sive ex­hib­it of avant-garde pieces, the In­ter­na­tion­al Ex­hi­bi­tion of Mod­ern Art (known to­day as The Ar­mory Show), was held at the Na­tion­al Guard 69th Reg­i­ment Ar­mory in New York …

* *  W I T H  A M P L E  P A R K I N G * *

“The show in­clud­ed Nude De­scend­ing a Stair­case, No. 2 in its state­side de­but, and crit­ics and crowds ac­cus­tomed to more re­al­is­tic and nat­u­ral­is­tic forms were quick to mock it as a sym­bol of all that was ridicu­lous about mod­ern Eu­ro­pean art … The New York Times wry­ly re-named it ‘Ex­plo­sion in a Shin­gle Fac­to­ry.’”
—Kristy Puchko, Men­tal Floss
I kept star­ing at the stair­case. It was just there.

At a few events.

At CLARA.
The new, re­pur­posed venue in Sacra­men­to for ART and COM­MU­NI­TY and back in JUNE, it was one of our lo­ca­tions for FLOMM 423 RED.

We had to do it. It called to us, said it had to hap­pen.

This is Mar­cel Duchamp’s Nude De­scend­ing a Stair­case n°2, 1913:

And 9 June 2018
for one day only
at our 423 RED event
right next to our oth­er ex­hi­bi­tions
down­stairs from where the Sacra­men­to Bal­let prac­tices –
this
was
the FLOMM se­quel:

HOM­MAGE À DUCHAMP

NUDE DE­SCEND­ING THE STAIR­CASE
RE­CLAIMED

‘IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOR­EST …’

a ‘ready-made’ art in­stal­la­tion
by
flom­mists
steve mehal­lo      und      the rhi­nos

 

 

the re­views are fi­nal­ly in!

Why did you do that?

So that’s what that was.

You guys are stu­pid.

Looked like a pile of lum­ber to me.

I ‘saw’ that.

I should have hit you with one of the boards.

FLOMM fi­nal­ly TAKES THE STAIRS!

You know, I’ve got friends in high places *wink wink*

If the mag­no­lias are full of shit, you re­al­ly shouldn’t eat them. Same thing with ham­burg­ers.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! With thanks to Louis, Lily, Aman­da and the guy in the park­ing lot who said, ‘hey, just threw a bunch of old red­wood in that bin there if you need it.’

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