FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Painted Street Collection – cassettes, n.d. [2003]
11,8 x 8,5 x 7 cm
5 music cassettes, hand written titles of songs on inner sleeves, lacker paint
out of a series of objects found in the streets of Amsterdam
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The title of this series “Painted Street Collection” refers to one of Franck Bragigand’s recycling methods. He collects all kinds of objects found in the garbage on the street, which he then cleans, sands and paints. Here he only applied a method of working that he calls ‘Un plan, une couleur’ (trans. “One plane, one colour”), i.e. painting a yellow layer of paint on one side of each cassette.
FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Restauration of Life – Order the next one…, 2003
various sizes and colours
A gallery sign lying on the seat of a yellow chair explained in short that visitors could go out back into the street searching for a chair left at the street garbage. Once back in the gallery, a buyer could choose a colour that would be painted on by the artist. For each extra colour added to a part of the chair – ‘un plan, une couleur’ – an amount of money was added to the sale price.
On a nearby wall the price setting written by Franck Bragigand was shown:
FRANCK BRAGIGAND, PPP / Painted Plastic Plant Company (mushroom), n.d. [1999]
21,5 x 12 x 12 cm
lacquer, plastic
signed: ‘BRAGIGAND’, uncommon, i.e. usually a handwritten inventory number is applied
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FRANCK BRAGIGAND, Restauration of the daily life “The Red Nature Morte”, Amsterdam, 1999-2001
ca 200 x 250 x 120 cm
digital print, certificate (29,7 x 21 cm)
installation with table, four theatre chairs, painted carpet, painting and waste-paper basket, 8 parts
Private collection Thora Johansen, Amsterdam
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This certificate of authenticity has been signed more than several times and is eventually signed and dated in the lower left corner. This domestic installation was a proposal of Franck Bragigand after he got an open commission for a modest amount of money that was half of the heritage the owner of the basement got after her father died in 1999. The red painting on the wall and a red waste-paper basket were ‘added as a present’ to the installment of the owner’s renovated furniture. For some reason two years later a certificate was signed by the artist and dated “2001”.
