The Fallacies of Hope

Oil on canvas with gold leaf frame

Art History

Clouds

De Chirico Sky

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Artist

A watercolour of a mushroom cloud based on &lsquo;The Age of Anxiety&rsquo; by W.H Auden.

What err what we are as if we were not

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Work on paper

A watercolour of a mushroom cloud based on ‘The Age of Anxiety’ by W.H Auden.

A watercolour of a mushroom cloud based on ‘The Age of Anxiety’ by W.H Auden.

Our ideas have got drunk and dropped their H&rsquo;s

Our ideas have got drunk and dropped their H's

Homo Abyssus Occidentalis

Seven Selfish Supperless Ages

From dusk to death

Black umbrellas blossom out

The jawing genius of a jackass age

Ex-monarchs remember a past Of wars and waltzes as they wait for death

The gods are wringing their great worn hands

Grey masses moving as the mud dries

A long blue-green splash resembling a cloud on two bronze coloured landscape panels, caused by oxidised urine on a copper prepared canvas. Based on Andy Warhol&rsquo;s Oxidiation Paintings. These elegiac works steal much from previous paintings by Otto Muhl, Hermann Nietsche and other 70&rsquo;s actionists, as well as the great recycler and thief of imagery Warhol, who in the early 1980&rsquo;s made a series of oxidization works created by his assistant&rsquo;s urination. The copper ground and cobalt fractals of these works brings echoes of Klimt and the decorative precursors of the actionists, but this is simultaneously counteracted by the transgressive process of their production: bodily waste, the ultimate form of disposable human rubbish used to make marks on canvas. This series of works first came out of a performance at Riflemaker gallery in London during the exhibition &lsquo;Me as Him&rsquo; 1997 where camouflage fright wig screenprints of the artists as Warhol were on display. During the evening visitors were invited to urinate on a collection of pre-prepared canvases in an extrovertly collaborative exercise. The signature of mark making, in random spurts, rushes and pools, makes a corrosive recycling of ideas.

Untitled Cloud Piss Diptych

Oxidised urine on copper-prepared canvas

Piss

Warhol

Painting

A long blue-green splash resembling a cloud on two bronze coloured landscape panels, caused by oxidised urine on a copper prepared canvas. Based on Andy Warhol’s Oxidiation Paintings.

A chrome plated bronze cast of an indented pillow in a pillow case.

Somewhere between sleeping on the streets and the silver clouds

Chrome plated bronze

Trompe L'oeil

Sculpture

A chrome plated bronze cast of an indented pillow in a pillow case.

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Silkscreen

Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

Gavin Turk

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