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Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs

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Biography

Tom Sachs is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.

Known For

Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2.0

Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist collective Gelitin, which since the 1990s has shattered the borders of "good taste" again and again with extravagant actions and installations. Interviews with old companions and artist friends in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are linked with anarchically montaged Gelitin archive material: intense, transgressive, experimental, gaudily colorful, funny, and virulent.

Whatever Happened to Gelitin

2016
Frank Ocean Full Concert FYF Fest 2017
10.0

Frank Ocean’s FYF Fest 2017 performance (July 22, Los Angeles) was a highly anticipated comeback show, marking his first major U.S. concert after releasing Blonde and Endless in 2016. The set lasted around 70–75 minutes and focused mainly on Blonde, with emotional, stripped-back renditions of songs like Self Control, Nikes, Ivy, and Thinkin Bout You.

Frank Ocean Full Concert FYF Fest 2017

2017
A Space Program
6.2

The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars

A Space Program

2015
Paradox Bullets
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A short film which debuted in a secret location in London to coincide with the release of the NikeCraft x Tom Sachs Mars Yard Overshoe

Paradox Bullets

2018
COLOR. by Tom Sachs
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Although his work is at times received with conflicting emotions, one thing for sure is that the otherworldly American artist Tom Sachs will always bring about constructive debate. Seen through the eyes of Van Neistat, from the film-making duo Neistat Brothers, Sachs presents a comprehensive manual for color use, appropriately titled COLOR. Starring the Sachs and company studio, this informative piece will surely bring the fascinating science of color back into perspective.

COLOR. by Tom Sachs

2011
Love Letter to Plywood
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Sculptor Tom Sachs made this wonderful seven-and-a-half minute film about his loved for the wondrous properties of plywood.

Love Letter to Plywood

2012
Ten Bullets
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An introduction and overview of the rules set by Tom Sachs for all employees in his studio. The 10 commandments of working with Tom Sachs.

Ten Bullets

2010
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A film made for, during and about Tom Sachs' 2007 exhibition 'Space Program' at Gagosian Beverly Hills. Also referred to as 'NASA' parts 1 and 2 during the film.

Space Program

Nutsy's
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Tom Sachs: Nutsy's (2001–2003) is a sprawling, dystopian-utopian art installation that features a series of short, industrial-style movies. These films explore consumer culture and the intersection of modernism and commercialism, featuring everything from functional DIY McDonald's stations to remote-controlled car races.

Nutsy's

2003