Michaël Amzalag, Japan (2019)
Michaël Amzalag studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, where he met Mathias Augustyniak in 1989. He designed the music magazine Les Inrockuptibles from 1989-90, before founding...
Read full biographyMichaël Amzalag studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, where he met Mathias Augustyniak in 1989. He designed the music magazine Les Inrockuptibles from 1989-90, before founding M/M (Paris) in 1992. M/M have developed collaborations across cultural fields, including music, fashion, art, publishing, film and theatre. They understand their work to be in the production of a series of signs that they are constantly reordering to build their own language. As acclaimed typographers, graphic designers and art directors, M/M often repurpose their own archives, utilising photography, drawing and typography as part of an elaborate visual language that is distinctive and experimental. They have designed magazines (Interview Magazine, Vogue Paris, Purple), while working diversely with fashion houses (Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Loewe), contemporary artists (Pierre Huyghe, Sarah Morris, Philippe Parreno), musicians (Björk, Madonna, Kanye West) and cultural institutions. Recently, they have created scenography, set design and 3D translations of their graphic vocabulary.
Publications
The Alphadicks
(2010)
- Glenn O'Brien
M/M (Paris)
Twenty-six loaded cowboys. Drawings by Mathias Augustyniak. Rhyme by Glenn O'Brien. 'Every man has two heads. That's better than one.'
Slátur/Slaughter
(2012)
- Oddný Eir,
- Ófeigur Sigurdsson
M/M (Paris)
Photographs by Mathias Augustyniak. 'Perhaps because the relationship between philosophy and sheep is especially close in Iceland, questions about the core of things, space and time, negative space and positive time are naturally discussed while handling lambs' hearts.'
The Givenchy Files 2007-2012
(2012)
- Olivier Zahm
M/M (Paris)
Invitations and graphic works inspired by the collections of Riccardo Tisci. Art by M/M (Paris). 'These elegant invitations, dark, tortured, mysterious, erotic, surrealistic, are a sort of thumbing of the nose at current fashion images.'
The Art World
(2012)
- Éric Troncy
M/M (Paris)
Photography from the FIAC posters and advertising, 2005 – 2012. Photography by M/M (Paris). 'A sort of geographical manual defining the movements of art works, bringing them to a specific territory, to its peripheries.'
Sans vous faire rien voir, je vous en fais un conte...
(2016)
- Éric Vigner,
- Bénédicte Vigner,
- Éric Demey,
- Jean-Louis Perrier
M/M (Paris)
Les affiches du Théâtre de Lorient, 1996 – 2015. «Quand je veux, j'épouvante; et quand je veux, je charme.»
Exhibitions
Centre Pompidou-Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Tate Modern, London
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Design Museum, London
Education
Visiting Professor
- Undergraduate
2014 – 2014
- École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
Visiting Professor
- Undergraduate
1996 – 2001
- École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Agencies
M/M (Paris)
1992 – present
www.mmparis.com
Awards
2020
2018
2017
2017
2017
2013
2012
2012
2007
2004
2003