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Lipstick Kiss

Print
2001 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is from a series of kisses entitled Lipstick Kiss by the model Kate Moss, pressed onto archive card sheets, complete with her embossed signature. Here Moss, instead of modelling for an image, makes the image herself. Lipstick Kiss makes an everyday event – a quick kiss – into a multiple artwork, which communicates both intimacy and glamour.

Lipstick Kiss is included in a limited-edition box set of prints and photographs, published by SHOWstudio in 2001. The set consists of a range of works by a variety of people from the creative industries, from photographers to pop stars, and the works – a collection of art, artefacts and fashion ephemera – are exclusive to this set. The mix of media and creative practitioners involved in this portfolio reflects the interests of the SHOWstudio project, concerned with contemporary image-making, fashion and multimedia. It could be described as a time capsule or a modern archive.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLipstick Kiss (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Imprint of lipstick-coated lips on card, with embossing
Brief description
'Lipstick Kiss', by Kate Moss, one of 49 prints from 'SHOWstudio' portfolio, London 2001
Physical description
'Lipstick Kiss', print made by imprint of lipstick-coated lips onto surface; one of 49 prints from 'SHOWstudio' portfolio. Protective card with a rectangular cut-out.
Dimensions
  • Height: 305mm
  • Width: 254mm
Copy number
9/100
Marks and inscriptions
'Kate'
Credit line
Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is from a series of kisses entitled Lipstick Kiss by the model Kate Moss, pressed onto archive card sheets, complete with her embossed signature. Here Moss, instead of modelling for an image, makes the image herself. Lipstick Kiss makes an everyday event – a quick kiss – into a multiple artwork, which communicates both intimacy and glamour.

Lipstick Kiss is included in a limited-edition box set of prints and photographs, published by SHOWstudio in 2001. The set consists of a range of works by a variety of people from the creative industries, from photographers to pop stars, and the works – a collection of art, artefacts and fashion ephemera – are exclusive to this set. The mix of media and creative practitioners involved in this portfolio reflects the interests of the SHOWstudio project, concerned with contemporary image-making, fashion and multimedia. It could be described as a time capsule or a modern archive.
Collection
Accession number
E.1097:42-2002

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Record createdAugust 29, 2003
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