ISH #2

Launch of Fanzine – 01
19.00 16th May 2009

Victor Boullet
– Plaster Saint

A plaster saint is defined as someone without human failings.
How hypocritical this is: people who claim to be infallible themselves are
prone to disparage others. Artists often lend credence to their own work
by citing other artists as a source of inspiration or influence; epigones all.
They set themselves up on a pedestal by standing on the shoulders of
others and thus another plaster saint is created. The work in this
publication draws upon that idea. To blatantly appropriate another artist's
work and make it my own and, what is more, to have the temerity to
choose the iconic work of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Leonardo said that "the noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding".
By opening a dialogue between subject and observer, they have been
given a voice of their own.

Concept Victor Boullet
All content Victor Boullet
Design Hey Ho ~ Julien Hourcade &Thomas Petitjean
Published in Paris, France 2009 by Lauren Monchar
A FreneticHappiness Production
Printed in Paris by Expressions 2
Edition of 1000. size A4. pp32.
Copyright © 2009 The Institute of Social Hypocrisy and Victor Boullet
ISBN: 978-0-9544016-3-4