A tall impeccably dressed red headed Italian man with an uncanny resemblance to Vincent van Gogh, and the gift of the gab, is currently working on a series of collectable sculptures and prints, based on a delirious yet adorable inner world. J is for jaded. A is for art lover, C for cringe. O for omg, and the final "P-O" stands for Premature Osteoporosis. Born and raised in Firenze, the cradle of the Renaissance, Jacopo Calonaci, a reformed painter, ended up in Amsterdam, the king-sized bed of art funding, but he never quite got comfortable in that bed. Instead he carved his own path. Check out his Etsy store: @Studio Giggly, where your cutest hallucinations will come to life, and for god’s sake give the seal of excellence, your seal of approval.
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Darling Killers #03 - Aurélien Lepetit
In this episode of Darling Killers, Aurélien Lepetit sits down with Jessie Gong. Their conversation touches on the technical, and practical aspects of his practice, the homage to a family tradition, and the moral implications of working with textiles and technology in terms of sustainability. Aurélien works at the crossroads of textile techniques, computing, and plant-based processes, transforming biometric and empirical data into a textile lexicon (Did you get all that? No? Then listen to this episode where he unpacks it all in a sexy voice)! Currently he researches old alchemical books and makes dye from food waste, medicinal plants and suburban flowers. The work Aurélien selected for our "Resurrauction" is a dead darling because it was made before that switch. RGB is available at the symbolic starting price of one euro.
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Darling Killers #02 - Charlott Markus
Charlott Markus didn’t so much kill this darling, as wish to resurrect it! Pygmalion 09, a work from her exam show at the Rietveld Academy, is for all intents and purposes ‘dead to the world’, buried in the past, yet already containing the seeds of themes and patterns that reappear and evolve throughout her work. Extended still lives, activism, textiles, memento mori, the colour blue and last but not least, the coded autobiographical references in seemingly abstract works. Woven into the fabric of her oeuvre, are the people, the places and the ideas that left their mark on her. Informed by a background in psychology and theology, the spirituality contained within this beautifully constructed photographic composition is palpable, and this archival print has been generously offered up for auction at the symbolic starting price of one euro.
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Darling Killers #01 - Finn Godwin
Our first guest on Darling Killers, Finn Godwin wakes up every morning and gets to work. His embracing of the ethos of homework on the kitchen table is admirable, and his “restless hand syndrome” requires that he keeps busy. Ink drawings in the morning, paintings in the afternoon, intricate collage work in the evening. A lot of time and craftsmanship goes into creating each and every elaborate vignette. The truth of the image lies in the detail. Nature is very much his thing, and for our “Resurrauction” he is offering an incredible piece that took over two years to make, Autumn Garden (unfinished) is a typical specimen of his work, one however he has recently given up on. We urge you to pick up where he left off! The work is available at our “Resurrauction” at the symbolic starting price of one euro.
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Introduction
Hanna, Lina, Tania and Jessie, aka the Dead Darlings Collective, got together in Amsterdam to record a conversation about things to come! We talk about our origins, the ideas baked into the work we do, and we introduce Darling Killers, the podcast where artists are interrogated about an artwork they killed. This work will subsequently be available on our website, where anyone can bid for it at our monthly “resurrauction”. Follow, subscribe, stay tuned!
Darling Killers is a podcast where we interrogate artists about a specific artwork they killed during the artistic process. Something with personal meaning to the artist, yet no commercial price tag, something they would not otherwise exhibit or sell.
In the podcast, we single out individual artists who plead guilty of killing a darling, we poke and prod to find out the circumstances, search for the motive and eventually, we strive to redeem the artwork in question through an online “Resurrauction”.
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