Art World Icons
Icon sets, 32x32, editions of 10

Description
These sets of icons represent various artists, curators, critics, gallerists, collectors, and philosophers from the contemporary scene. Each set is temporarily downloadable until it is
replaced by another one, with the archives possibly being made available from non art- related websites.

These sets will create a history of the 20th century art world in icons, paying homage to August Sander's work, extended to a worldwide community (the art world one) and
transposed to the digital.

The process of making these icons itself is bound online technologies as most pictures are found through Google picture searches.

Bio:
Vincent Makowski
lives and works in front of a screen like millions of people

969 : is born (in the middle of nowhere)
974 : lives a happy childhood
986 : marries Saskia
987 : quits his job in a bank, leaves his wife and child to go live on an island
988 : sees prostitutes on a steady basis
989 : joins the communist party
990 : leaves the communist party
991 : slits his ear
992 : joins a fascist party
993 : marries Ilona
994 : divorces Ilona
995 : sees a transexual lover
996 : becomes a cocaine addict
997 : gets shot by Valerie (but survives)
998 : tries to forget he once joined a fascist party
999 : crashes with his plane in a desert (but survives)
000 : becomes an alcoholic
001 : crashes again on one of his monumental works as he was flying
over it (but survives)
002 : quits all (has been seen playing chess quite a lot)
Vincent Makowski is part of the online Amsterdam Editions collective.