Thomas Min - The Perfect Document Mamco Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is a

Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is a Belgian artist

this collaborative publication by Studio TunTun (Seoul/Melbourne) charters a visual correspondence between two friends

These playful photographic works resonate with the historical visual traditions of alchemy

melancholic and a distinctly contemporary everyday

Using an automatic drawing method called frottage (developed by Max Ernst in the 1920s) these rubbings were created using sheets of drawing paper and a selection of colored graphite sticks

Thomas Min - The Perfect Document Mamco Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is aEvery conceivable objectfrom an ordinary thing to a readymade that is presented in an artistic context or an intentionally constructed artefactonce probably had a photographic pendant, either as a document or an artistic interpretation. On the one hand its a lovely and even comforting idea that things are given a second life, but on the other hand its a depressing thought that reveals something about our obsession to portray. Beautifully published by