Tales of Brave Ulysses, 2008
Inkjet, acrylic and collage on canvas
84 x 132 inches (213.4 x 335.3 cm)
RICHARD PRINCE
Pumpsie Green, 2008
Ink jet, acrylic and collage on canvas
77 x 100 1/2 inches (195.6 x 255.3 cm)
Pumpsie Green, 2008
Ink jet, acrylic and collage on canvas
77 x 100 1/2 inches (195.6 x 255.3 cm)
Another Mega Art Show happening right now in the Chelsea Art District!
Richard Prince -Canal Zone @ Larry Gagosian Gallery. A very interesting show !
Following his burlesque dialogues with the art of De Kooning, Picasso, and Naughty Nurse pulp fiction, Prince has turned to his own biographical roots for inspiration. The Panama Canal Zone, where he was born, was, until 1979, a political exclave of the U.S., part-colonial company enclave and part-socialist government, purportedly dominated by virulent separatist racism. In his characteristic manner, Prince has transformed the former reality of his birthplace into a fictive space: "Canal Zone" provides an anarchic tropical scenario in which extreme emanations of the (white American male) id – fleshy female pin-ups, Rastafarians with massive dreadlocks, electric guitars, and virile black bodies – run riot.
Aside from their "storyboard" looks and their ability to absorb information based on Prince's original "pitch," what is evidently new in these paintings is the way they are, literally, "put together," like provisional magazine lay-outs. Some images, scanned from originals, are printed directly onto the base canvas; others are "dragged on," using a primitive collage technique whereby printed figures are roughly cut out, then the backs of those figures painted and pasted directly onto the base canvas with a squeegee so that the excess paint squirts out on and around the image. On top of this are violently suggestive swipes and drips of livid paint and scribbles of oil-stick crayon which, together with the comic, abstract sign-features that mask each figure's face, add to the powerful push-pull between degree and effect. This has become a completely new way for Prince to make a painting, where much of what shows up on the surface is incidental to the process.
Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone and lives and works in upstate New York. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Serpentine Gallery, London (2008). A retrospective survey opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2007 and traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 2008.
Aside from their "storyboard" looks and their ability to absorb information based on Prince's original "pitch," what is evidently new in these paintings is the way they are, literally, "put together," like provisional magazine lay-outs. Some images, scanned from originals, are printed directly onto the base canvas; others are "dragged on," using a primitive collage technique whereby printed figures are roughly cut out, then the backs of those figures painted and pasted directly onto the base canvas with a squeegee so that the excess paint squirts out on and around the image. On top of this are violently suggestive swipes and drips of livid paint and scribbles of oil-stick crayon which, together with the comic, abstract sign-features that mask each figure's face, add to the powerful push-pull between degree and effect. This has become a completely new way for Prince to make a painting, where much of what shows up on the surface is incidental to the process.
Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone and lives and works in upstate New York. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Serpentine Gallery, London (2008). A retrospective survey opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2007 and traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 2008.
Don't miss it!
Richard Prince “Canal Zone” Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
p: 212.741.1111
Tue-Sat 10-6
Richard Prince “Canal Zone” Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
p: 212.741.1111
Tue-Sat 10-6
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Hmm. I lived in the Panama Canal Zone until I was five. The only manifestation of MY experience there is an inordinate fondness for tropical plants and mosquito netting.
ReplyDeleteI could look at pictures of naked ladies all day.
ReplyDeleteAfter my dad did a mini series in 77, we went to the San Blas Islands for a vacation and he took us to see the canal and the locks and some of the other local Flavor (!). I brought down my pocket fisherman and caught exotic fish, and he was nominated for an Emmy in that role.
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