Pierre et Gilles, Double Je, 1976-2007 - Reviews
“A tribute from Kitsch master Jeff Koons heads off this fantastic 30th anniversary collection, featuring the duo’s edibly eye-popping amalgams of Greek myth, religion and burlesque. A retrospective tracing the couple’s relationship as well as their collaborative work, it’s pure coffee-table candy.“Next Magazine, New YorkUnited States |
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"(…) magique (…)"Elegy, ParisFrance |
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"Bien plus qu’un catalogue d’exposition, cet ouvrage (qui porte le même nom que l’expo, Double Je) nous immerge totalement dans l’univers de Pierre et Gilles, depuis la succulente biographie illustrée de leurs vies jusqu’à une très large sélection d’œuvres, toutes périodes confondues (en insistant sur les récentes) et devient d’ores et déjà un objet incontournable."Elegy, ParisFrance |
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“A destruiçao de mitos sagrados em fotografís propositadamente kitsch marcam o trabalho da dupla francesa. Barbies, dragqueens, cantoras pop, estilistas e actores sao vulgarmente tratados como figuras mitológicas e bíblicas, o u simplemente retratados en situaçoes que enfatizam os grandes fetiches do ser humano.”Nigth and Style, LisabonPortugal |
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„Exploring – indeed, exposing – their work perfectly, Double Je was released to coincide with a retrospective of their work that ran in Paris this summer for their 30th anniversary. This is hardly just an exhibition catalog however. Rather, it’s an incredibly beautiful, lush exploration of both the works in the exhibition, as well as an additional 170 pieces focusing on the past ten years…As a coffee table book, Double Je sits at the top of the stack. As a retrospective of two fabulous artists, it’s perfection.”Edgenewyork.com, New YorkUnited States |
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"Enrichi d’une introduction de l’artiste Jeff Koons, cet ouvrage donne le fou rire, nous emporte dans un monde enchanté et nous délecte par la distance drolatique qu’il impose aux personnages…"LE Magazine, ParisFrance |
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“If the 300 deliberately overstated photo-paintings in his retrospective volume, Pierre & Gilles: Double Je, are precious, then the book’s introduction—an illustrated time line of the French duo’s impressive 30-year career—is priceless. Ardenne encapsulates their lives in an exhaustive scrapbook, amassing key pieces from their oeuvre, silly photo-booth portraits, party pics with celebrities, and shots of the shimmering and kitschy spectacle of the artists’ home studio.”Out Magazine, New YorkUnited States |
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„It would take a Herculean effort to make a bad book of the gorgeous work of Pierre et Gilles so it’s not surprising that good old TASCHEN has done the pair proud with this superb monograph. If only Pierre et Gilles’ world were real, we’d apply for citizenship immediately.“Grafik, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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“Photography team Pierre and Gilles create out-of-this-world portraits befitting of such larger-than-life stars as Iggy Pop, Madonna, Catherine Deneuve and Marilyn Manson, but the duo also keeps a lookout for captivating unknowns, and boy, do they deliver. With Pierre as the photographer and Gilles as the painter/elaborator, the artists transport you into a camp-crazy world full of day-glow color, cartoonish sensuality and kitschy religious imagery. Put a copy of Double Je on your coffee table and watch your dinner guests flock to it like moths to a flame. This tome is fierce.”Zink Magazine, New YorkUnited States |
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“Dreamy and daring, hyper-stylized and humorous, in the world of Pierre et Gilles pop culture mavens, geisha goddesses, burlesque babes, and religious figures intermingle and create incomparable art in an alternate world. Double Je, their latest collection, spans 30 years of the French collaborators’ work. . .Prop it up on a contemporary console table in a light-filled foyer to draw focus to this attention-deserving book.”New York Resident, New YorkUnited States |
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Pierre et Gilles, Double Je, 1976-2007
Ardenne, Paul / Koons, Jeff
Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm (9.4 x 11.8 in.), 460 pages $ 59.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-4650-6 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
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