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« object (all around) », 2003 |
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Herbert Hinteregger
Works designed around the BIC® Cristal®
Young Austrian artist Herbert Hinteregger uses BIC® ballpoint pen ink exclusively in his paintings on canvas and walls. He also created the sculpture Object (all around), which features BIC® Cristal® pens in the form of a sphere. The artist's exclusive use of BIC® ballpoint pens, including ink and shells as materials in his works, reflects the “reduction and concentration of minimal basic materials”.
Hinteregger's works, paintings and plastic art, were exhibited in March 2005 at the Neue Galerie of the Contemporary Arts Museum of Graz in Austria. For the occasion, Herbert Hinteregger created a work called All over, in two vast windows in the museum's entrance. More than 20,000 BIC® ball pen shells were glued to the walls, ceiling and floor in an unstructured way.
Visit the artist gallery website at www.GeorgKargl.com.
Herbert Hinteregger is represented by GEORG KARGL Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. |
« Géographie à l’usage des gauchers » |
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Philippe Favier
“Géographie à l’usage des gauchers”, an exhibition by an artist-explorer
Between June 17 and August 14, 2005, the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon hosted an exhibition by the French artist Philippe Favier, entitled Géographie à l'usage des gauchers (“Geography for left-handed people”). This imaginative set of works looks at the Earth from a completely different angle.
For 15 months, the artist worked in the museum under a shroud of secrecy. He produced a new drawing daily and put together a strange and wondrous voyage, keeping its contours and geography a mystery until opening day. The exhibition includes 360 illustrations made with BIC® pens as well as the objects, maps, and papers that chronicle the journey.
Since the beginning of his career in 1981, Philippe Favier has continued to reinvent himself as a master of the miniscule. For Géographie à l’usage des gauchers, he sketched the vast and intricate coastline of an imaginary world and collected and invented a number of objects. Like a coming-of-age story, the collection recounts the ebbs and flows that culminated in these 396 works of art - the vanishing point of this remarkable fantasy.
Visit www.moca-lyon.org for more information on the exhibition. |
BIC at the Museum of Modern Art of New York |
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BIC at The Museum of Modern Art of New York
The BIC® Cristal® ball pen and BIC® J1 lighter are part of the Museum’s permanent collections.
In March 2005, the prestigious Museum of Modern Art of New York (MOMA) decided to include the BIC® maxi lighter with adjustable flame in the collection of its Department of Architecture and Design. This is a great honor for BIC® lighter, which was launched more than 30 years ago, and has become an icon all over the world.
The BIC® lighter joins the BIC® Cristal® pen, another ingenious invention of BIC founder, Marcel Bich. Launched in 1950, the Cristal® pen, with ink, cap and plug in blue, was the first model to be put on the market. Revolutionizing writing habits and featuring a remarkable ease of use and original design, the Cristal® pen is a “form that truly follows function," and it has become a symbol of writing instruments the world over. In 2002, the MOMA entered the BIC® Cristal® pen into its permanent collection.
The BIC® Cristal® ballpoint pen and the BIC® lighter also were part of the 2004 exhibition entitled “Humble Masterpieces,” a tribute to everyday objects.
Visit MOMA’s site at www.moma.org |
Tapestry “Le BIC Emissaire”, 2000 |
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Le BIC Emissaire
A tapestry on the writing by Philippe Favier
To celebrate the beginning of the third millennium, the Plastic Arts Delegation (French Department of Culture) and the Aubusson and Felletin Tapestries Museum have chosen eleven artists who have proposed their interpretation of the following theme: inventions and discoveries that have served humanity in its evolution and its movement towards an improved condition. These themes include writing, the Big Bang, the plough, games and the calendar, to name a few.
To illustrate “Writing,” the artist Philippe Favier chose the BIC boy. The artist has kept the border consistent with ancient tapestries and has set the BIC boy in the middle of the work. He designed the color-coded plan of the tapestry, with patterns inspired from greenery, characteristic of Aubusson and Felletin Tapestries.
Philippe Favier was born in 1957; he lives and works in Veaunes (France). This renowned contemporary artist embraces both new formats and materials (paper, glass... ) ; he is eager to discover and expound, linking intelligence and delicacy. He often expresses himself in miniature. His small figures, drawn with a ballpoint pen, painted or cut, entered visual and plastic art history during the 1980s. |
Grafie del Sonne (“Graph of Sleep"), 2003
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Grafie del Sonne (“Graph of Sleep”)
An Aosta Valley relic, updated by contemporary artists
La force des choses: Tradition et design du Val d’Aoste (“The Force of circumstance: Tradition and design in the Aosta Valley”) took place in 2003 in the San Lorenzo church in Aosta, Italy. The exhibition featured traditional objects from the region and their modern alter-egos, concocted by contemporary Italian artists.
Elisabetta Gonzo and Alessandro Vicari came up with a modern and symbolic take on a 19th-century cradle, using rows of BIC® Cristal® ballpoint pens to construct its sides.
The artists intended to capture the parallels between cradles and writing: “We come into the world and are placed in a cradle... Later in life, we keep a journal to try and express our feelings as they take on meaning. We imagine living in both dreams and writing." |
« Théâtre sans animaux », Paris 2001 |
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Théâtre sans animaux
The BIC® pen makes its stage debut in Jean Michel Ribes’s celebrated play
Théâtre sans Animaux (“Theater without Animals”), by French artist Jean Michel Ribes, is making a triumphant tour of major European cities, including Paris, Marseille, Madrid, London, and Namur. The play stars the illustrious pens BIC® Cristal® and BIC® M10™, which appear onstage alongside the actors. Ink side-down and ready to write, these gargantuan replicas make quite an impression on both the characters and the audience.
“These short fables, sketches, and doodles gathered together under the title Théâtre sans Animaux are a modest contribution to the art of the unpredictable and pay homage to all who fight against the gloomy confines of measurement.”
- Jean Michel Ribes |
BIC® products at Centre Georges Pompidou |
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BIC at Centre Georges Pompidou
BIC® historical products enter the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou (national Museum of modern art, Paris) permanent collections
In 2006, the Musée national d'art moderne/ Centre de création industrielle-Centre Georges Pompidou Paris entered the BIC® Cristal ball pen, BIC® J1 lighter with adjustable flame, and the BIC® Classic normal and Classic sensitive one-blade shavers into its permanent collections.
This prestigious French museum has given special honor to these products, which have become icons and part of our daily lives.
Visit the Museum’s site at www.centrepompidou.fr.
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