What makes something art anyway? Hotel Particulier’s COLLECTIVE AFFECTION asks just that- and brings together a group of objects assigned artistic definition by fine and commercial artists themselves. Stop in and have one of the best coffees I’ve had in a long time, and peruse the recently extended show.

COLLECTIVE

AFFECTION 

EXTENDED.

ON VIEW UNTIL OCT.12

Inspired by a studio visit to art jeweler Edgar Mosa – These jewels: they are not entirely jewelry. COLLECTIVE AFFECTION is about artworks left in a box, not taken seriously, mundane design with an essence, works in progress, inspirational and emotional banal objects, re-contextualized artworks – and at times sketches and prototypes become it .

A collection of singular works, limited editions, fragments, prototypes in collaboration with fine and commercial artists: two multidisciplinary artists, an art jeweler, an eyewear designer, a perfumer, a sound artist, two photographers, a printer and an art director.

EDGAR MOSA

PATRICIA CHOUX

NICOLAS ROSEILLIER

ALBANO GHIZZONI

JOSHUA LIEBOWITZ

JOSE RUIZ

CHRISTOPHER SAUVE

TRONG G. NGUYEN

COOLIFE STUDIO

PATRICIA CHOUX, Café Vetyver, 2013 Perfume, 12ml. 3 variations E, F, B – Edition of 30 in each variation. Published by Hotel Particulier.