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r.ed monde blog

Discover the artist’s character r.ed monde in stop-motion animation, graphic novels, and exhibitions.

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Byzantine mosaics from Ravenna’s San Vitale church inspired my logo for Gelatauro in Via San Vitale, Bologna. St. Luke is the ox and patron saint of artists. Hoping for less bull in the year of the ox. To be fair, r.ed’s “yoga pose” has nothing to do with the cow pose...Just a bit of artistic license.

Prints and Drawings, Bibliotheque nationale de France has acquired my Balzaculator, a paper computer with one punch card that turns Balzac’s Human Comedy into a binary system. Balzac invented the concept of repeating characters (like in a TV show). The punch card reveals what stories or novels each character appears in. This character, Lucien de Rubempre, is quite famous - Oscar Wilde said the death that affected him the most in his life was the fictional Lucien’s death in a novel. Spoiler: both did time in jail. Colored dots are all over the ground now in Italy for Carnevale, but these 55,000 colored dots are printed with pencil erasers and archival ink.

Canceled - by chance - into Groucho Marx? Watercolor of George Washington stamp for r.ed monde’s graphic novel “r.ed engender.ed” (2016). No need to invent when life offers such unadulterated humor. Also, democracy means you don’t get in trouble if you don’t put someone on a pedestal.

Our 25th wedding anniversary in June 2020 over FaceTime, during 5 months apart due to Covid travel restrictions. Missing friends and family tho it’s good to be united with my spouse! Looking forward to good times together with friends. We are nowhere without you. Sending love. No filters. No hashtags.

Artists in the permanent collection of @portlandmuseum get a free pass to see art. I wish the US would issue passes to all visual artists for all art museums. Certainly the poor remuneration in the arts would merit such a perk for professional development. Thanks @portlandmuseum for being forward thinking and kind.

Classic couple ca. 20 years ago. Happy birthday to all the folks born today. May it be peaceful and bright.

Las Meninas (Velázquez, 1656) anyone? This photo always reminded me of that painting. Sending love across the ocean to the one born in Bologna 25 years ago #otd. It’s a pleasure to vote with you and emote with you. They are cute when they’re young, like all animals, because otherwise we wouldn’t tolerate their childish misdeeds, but they are great to have around as adults! I don’t miss the old days, but the things you said and did will always bring a smile. To quote you, at 2.5 years old:

Living doll. Ventriloquist? I have been in awe of this doll of a person for 25 years today, privileged to marvel at the ingenuity of growing souls. I have tried hard not to wreck the innate creativity of these and other children I have known. Their own language in development, their questions and thoughts have made me question and reflect upon language itself. It’s a fraught world, but we are here together. Children give us reason to smile, and their constant needs are an opportunity to realize we are not the center of the universe. Thanks to all the young people in my life, from children to interns, for keeping me up to date, and teaching me new things. It’s a joy to watch you grow.

Scores of seminal texts were written in prison the last 2,000 years. In 2007 I created a piece with the authors, titles and years of a selection of these - all of this text becomes the bars of a prison when the three prison blocks are folded up into a case suspended by a chain of ring binders. This photo was taken during the inaugural appearance of this work in a solo show at @addisongalleryofamericanart in 2007. Letter from Birmingham Jail was published for the first time in The Atlantic Monthly. The Fettered Lettered is an edition of 17 copies.

Victorious Secret

Read about the artist’s traveling mosaic installation, dedicated to Title IX, that features women athletes in bikinis winning the Pentathlon 2000 years ago.

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