Bjarne Melgaard who as described by art critic Roberta Smith, “never met a taboo he didn’t like breaking,” has a reputation to maintain as an aging enfant terrible . He has produced a ‘chair-as-art’ based on a similar one created in the 1960s by Allen Jones. The chair is a woman on her back with her thighs pulled up to her chest and her calves and feet sticking up in the air. The backs of her thighs make the seat. She is wearing black knickers, long gloves and boots. The difference is that Melgaard’s chair is a made to resemble a black woman and Jones’ is white.
Russian fashion designer and the editor-in-chief of new bi-annual art and fashion magazine GARAGE, Dasha Zhukova (note – it really isn’t acceptable to reduce a woman to that of girlfriend of a man, however rich and famous he happens to be) is a white…
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