After meeting at art school in Paris, Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak founded M/M in 1992. They have since worked together as graphic designers and art directors on fashion, music and art projects mostly for longstanding creative clients and collaborators such as the fashion designers Yohji Yamamoto, Jil Sander or Jeremy Scott, or with musicians like Bjo¨rk, The Micronauts or Benjamin Biolay and more recently Madonna. After starting out with music projects in France, M/M became first became involved involved in fashion with Yamamoto and Jil Sander in 1994 and have since worked for other major fashion houses including Calvin Klein, Balenciaga or Louis Vuitton. Their work in the art world ranges from commissions for museums such as Centre Georges Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, to collaborations and exhibitions with artists like Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, with whom they have also designed a Cafe´ in Paris in 2001. Amzalag and Augustyniak have also been appointed as creative consultants to Paris Vogue between Oct. 2001 ‘til Sept. 2003. They see each of their projects as a "conversation" with the comissioned yet have defined a distinctively unexpected graphic approach combining free forms within strictly controlled compositions.
M/M + Liam Gillick Collaboration Works
About Liam GillickLiam
Gillick was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1964. He studied at Hertfordshire College of Art, and Goldsmiths College, London. Gillick's work often investigates the relationships of power found within the world of politics and decision-making. Using a combination of text and installations, Gillick provides documentation of the way social and economic realities are shaped and manipulated. Recent group exhibitions include Documenta X, Kassel (1997), David, Frankfurter Kunstverein (1999) and Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain (2000) and solo exhibitions include those at the Hamburg Kunstverein (1998) and the Arnolfini, Bristol (2000). Liam Gillick lives and works in London and New York.