A teaser to make you go MAD!

Continuing to post about Chandler Burr's opening, here are some exclusive pictures in loco. CB sent to me today via e-mail and we will have more to publish in the near future.

So thank you Chandler for sharing this special moment with me; and thanks to the photographer Ric Kallaher for the great images, courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design.

I know you guys want some more...but hey! This is the first week of the exhibit...let's not spoil the surprise for the NEW YORKERS!

MAD NYC opens Chandler Burr's Scent Exhibition

In April this blog has announced on first hand the opening of Chandler Burr's Scent Exhibition at MAD NYC - Click HERE to read all about it, and click HERE to read more detailed information from the NEW YORK TIMES). The opening was scheduled for NOV, 13 but sadly, due to Sandy, it was postponed to NOV, 20 as he told me and as the NYT informs. The museum website gives a different date - NOV, 29th, so please call the museum to be sure of the date of the opening!

MAD Location

2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10019

info@madmuseum.org

212-299-7777

Museum Hours

Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Thursday and Friday from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm

The good news are: A beautiful catalogue is on the way and pre-orders can be made already!

The catalogue will be sold for $250. There are only 1,000 catalogues, so if you are interest, you should hurry! Members of the museum will get 5% discount only.

The catalogue will have 11 of the 12 works of olfactory art that will be presented at the exhibition— Only Chanel Nº5 was not included, but don’t ask me why – Chandler did not tell me.

We are also not sure if the catalogue can be shipped internationally, so this info must be checked by contacting the museum.

About the catalogue flacons - Each work comes in a 5ml vial.

I have received a preview of the catalogue, so I am posting here for you guys to have a general idea – one of more details might change a bit, according to Chandler.

Photo credits: MAD + Chandler Burr

The works included in the exhibition (+ Chanel Nº5) and in the catalogue are:

01 Romanticism

Jicky

1889

Aimé Guerlain

Lent by Guerlain

02  Abstract Expressionism

L’Interdit,

1957

Francis Fabron

Lent by Givenchy and Givaudan

03 Early American School

Aromatics Elixir

1971

Bernard Chant

Lent by The Estée Lauder Companies and International Flavors and Fragrances

04 Industrialism

Drakkar Noir

1982

Pierre Wargnye

Lent by l’Oréal International Flavors and Fragrances

05 Surrealism

Angel

1992

Olivier Cresp

Lent by Clarins and Firmenich

06 Minimalism

L’Eau d’Issey

1992

Jacques Cavallier

Lent by BPI and Firmenich

07 Photo Realism

Pleasures

1995

Annie Buzantian, Alberto Morillas

Lent by The Estée Lauder Companies and Firmenich

08  Kinetic Sculpture

Light Blue

2001

Olivier Cresp

Lent by Dolce & Gabbana, P&G Prestige, and Firmenich

09 Neo-Romanticism

Prada Amber

2004

Carlos Benaïm, Max Gavarry, Clément Gavarry

Lent by Prada, Puig, and International Flavors & Fragrances

10 Luminism

Osmanthe Yunnan

2006

Jean-Claude Ellena

Lent by Hermès

11 Post-Brutalism

[itals]Untitled

2010

Daniela Andrier

Lent by l’Oréal and Givaudan

The catalogue will also come with a booklet with 11 essays about the Artistic Historical context of the scents, written by Chandler Burr himself.

To pre-order yours, click here in the MAD link.

S01E02 - The second fragrance of the Untitled Series by Chandler Burr was announced today

S01E02

"E02 is a work of olfactory science fiction. It is not merely the morphing of the eau fraîche into a 22nd century form (which would be feat enough), it is the scent of a plant, a lovely curling vine, in a garden built in outer space. It is the green scent of the plant’s delicate green tentacles and its graceful leaves in the precious, pressurized air circulating in cool post-metal tubes, a perfect equilibrium of the heartbreakingly natural and the mesmerizingly artificial.

E02’s artist has given this plant no flower. He has referenced only the scent of its stem and leaf and tendril, the water that nourishes it, and the glowing capsule, whose marvelously synthetic sunlight protects it from the vacuum outside. (He has included the vacuum too, not its scent of course—space has none—but its weird phantom impact.)"

via Opensky website.

more details and video, click on the name OPENSKY