Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the duo behind Daft Punk, are appearing sans their trademark masks for a sculpture on display in New York and created by Xavier Veilhan. The piece, titled Producers, features the duo sporting their civilian names and ditching their masks to look like a pair of average guys off the street. There is one catch, of course:
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That’s right, they’re wooden. Not that we haven’t seen them before, but it’d be nice to see the guys behind the masks officially. I guess once they finally stop putting together music. From The Creators Project:
“The funny thing is I didn’t even ask them,” Veilhan tells me via phone call while installing Music, a double exhibition opening this week at Galerie Perrotin’s New York and Paris locations. “It was a very logical response to my proposal: I proposed to introduce them as producers, not as musicians, and so after talking to them, we decided that they should appear with their civilian names. […] They proposed to me: ‘Okay, we should make the sculpture the non-existing image of us. So if somebody wants to see how we are like in real [life] they’ll have to look at the sculpture.”
If anything, it’s a pretty sweet looking piece of art. Makes the glob of clay I turned in as an ashtray in high school look like a glob of sh*t. Veilhan’s exhibit is open in New York, so stop in and see the piece for yourself if you’re in the area. You can tell people you met the real Daft Punk and no one will be able to question you.
(Via Pitchfork / The Creators Project)
