Absurd life gives birth to absurd art. Or is it the other way around? It seems that art managed to avoid a lot throughout the years, and when it did create these things that it usually missed, the academic world ignored it over and over again. Not many times did art embrace porn, but when it did, it did so in amazing ways, and when it did so, it was rudely ignored. Another thing is action. Paitings always depicted still life, and that’s beyond the normal term of still life. Mostly it’s models who are requested not to move, not to breathe, and not to live for about two hours. Some absurd it’s when trying to depict life we ask it to stop living. However, painting can also depict motion, and although it’s still not lose its movement. And, by the way, dead life can possess richer motion then the liveliest kid on the block. All that and much more John Currin does with excellent skill, heart and mind.
Links:
Wikipedia Article
Article @ BBC Collective
Article @ the Village Voice
John Currin’s Nudes (essay)
John Currin: Boomerang (essay)
Gagosian Gallery Artist Profile
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Very bizarre. I try to find some theme among all the pieces, but there is none, aside from this eerie similarity in style.
The proportions of all the figures are done in such a way that you can’t help but see everyone and everything in the pictures as “sick”, or under-(over?)-developed in some obscure way…
Haunting. Great find, dirkhaim.
thanks. aren’t these proportions (sick or not), or “real” world?
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