Dillon Gallery in New York City will be hosting ICONOSMS:
Dillon Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of avant-garde artist Christophe Laudamiel, a world-renowned perfumer at DreamAir LLC’s studios, this time joined by Christoph Hornetz, perfumery partner of 10 years, forming the team Les Christophs…
Demeter has launched Orange Rim Cleaner, a new limited edition fragrance created for Irish artist Alan Phelan…
It’s never been done before; Yann literally recreated the smell of my armpit.
— Performance artist Martynka Wawrzyniak tells the New York Times about her new exhibit, Smell Me, for which perfumer Yann Vasnier recreated various bodily smells. Read more at Get A Whiff Of This Girl.
Artist Eduardo Kac’s Aromapoetry is “a book to be read with the nose”:
Aromapoetry is a new kind of poetry in which the compositional unit (the poem) is made up of smells…
Art lovers who wander into Dillon Gallery in Chelsea this week will have virtually nothing to look at, but plenty to smell—from a freshly grated lemon peel, to a musty cave, to a ripe banana layered with the feral odor of a ... monkey.
— From What's That Smell? A Fragrant Downtown Exhibit Makes the Case for Scent Art at the Wall Street Journal. The exhibit features "scent sculptures" by perfumer Christophe Laudamiel; you can find more details at the Dillon Gallery website.