Artists' Editions Volume II
Vilebrequin and Swiss contemporary art publisher JRP|Editions bring art to the beach with a second installment of The Artists’ Editions from American artists Deux Femmes Noires: Mickalene Thomas & Racquel Chevremont.
A NEW TERRAIN
FOR ARTISTS
Introducing a different kind of art collection. The kind you can hang on your walls or hang at the beach in. Debuted last summer at The Eye of The Collector art fair in London and CAN Ibiza, The Artists’ Editions invites voices from the international contemporary scene to explore the power of the swimsuit as medium, furthering the dialogue between art and fashion.Curated by Lionel Bovier, Director of MAMCO Geneva and Arnaud Hubert, CEO of JRP|Editions, and orchestrated by the Vilebrequin Studio to ensure artwork is reproduced with absolute integrity.
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Deux Femmes Noires
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John M Armleder
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Sylvie Fleury
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Kenny Scharf
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Spotlight onDeux Femmes Noires
Originally from New Jersey, Mickalene Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn. A multidisciplinary artist and shapeshifter, she also acts as a curator, educator, and mentor to many rising emerging artists. With Deux Femmes Noires, Chevremont and Thomas set out to increase visibility for artists of color—and female artists of color in particular.Racquel Chevremont was born and raised in NYC. A powerful force in the art world, she is sought out for her expertise and experience as an art consultant, advising institutions, corporations, collectors, and artists.
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Spotlight onJohn M Armleder
John M Armleder is a Swiss performance artist, painter, and sculptor who has spent four decades developing his own creative vocabulary by mixing mediums, techniques, and movements—“A supermarket of forms”, as he calls it. Teaming an extraordinary visual culture with delegation principles and chance procedures, he exploits the tension between mastery and randomness. His body of work stretches from abstraction to appropriation, and installation to multiples.
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Spotlight onSylvie Fleury
Since the early 1990s, Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury has been exploring the crossovers between art, fashion, tuning, and the New Age aesthetic. By customizing objects borrowed from mainstream culture, she forces viewers to reassess the notions of value, fetishized luxury, and gendered consumption. With strong ties to Conceptualism, her artistic practice covers sculpture, performance, painting, and installation.
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Spotlight onKenny Scharf
No stranger to beach culture, LA-born artist Kenny Scharf came up on the New York art scene in the 1980s. Steeped in imagery from 1950s American pop culture, his scenes and characters depict a cartoon-like utopia imbued with vibrant, optimistic colors.
MEET THE ARTIST
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Deux Femmes Noires
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John M Armleder
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Sylvie Fleury
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Kenny Scharf
MEN'S SWIM SHORTS, READ DIFFERENTLY
NOW EXHIBITING
ART TO THE BEACH
As a lifelong contemporary art collector and enthusiast, Vilebrequin CEO Roland Herlory is uncompromising in his approach to this project:Bringing art to the beach has always been the dream. We do not consider what we do to be art; we’re more focused on reproducing artists’ work as closely as possible to the original. With the know-how of Vilebrequin Studio and Ateliers, we are capable of delivering printing techniques that represent an original artwork’s unique color and contrast - he states.
ALL COLLABORATIONS
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Vilebrequin X Derrick Adams
Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams, whose renowned “Floater” series just launched as a limited-edition swim shorts in collaboration with Vilebrequin.
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Vilebrequin X Massimo Vitali
Known for his beach panoramas, Italian photographer Massimo Vitali has always shared our fascination with water – and the belief that vacation would be a little dry without it.
2020 -
Vilebrequin X Jean Charles de Castelbajac
A poppy, sensual and colourful wardrobe, close to the designer's heart Jean Charles de Castelbajac, combining functionality and creative freedom.
2019 -
Vilebrequin X Giriat
For the more romantic, Vilebrequin has combined the spirit of the sea with passion in its Valentine's Day 2020 print.
2021
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Vilebrequin X Massimo Vitali
The collaboration between Massimo Vitali and Vilebrequin was inevitable.2016 -
Vilebrequin X Alex Israel
The collaboration with Alex Israel is very much a continuation of looking at West Coast and surf culture.2016 -
Vilebrequin X Mrzyk & Moriceau
The franco-german couple have been uniting their talents to deliver facetious drawings in a curvy style.2019
SPECIALIST CONTEMPORARY
ART PUBLISHER
Founded in 2004, JRP|Editions (formerly JRP|Ringier, 2004-2018) has built up a catalog of more than 500 titles currently in active distribution and established itself as one of the leading international and independent publishers of contemporary art. In 2019, JRP|Editions launched a Multiples department, offering limited editions such as lithographs, screenprints, sculptures and special books from artist of all generations and nationalities.
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