Spartacus Chetwynd
Edited by Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder. Text by Raphael Gygax. Published with the Migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
ISBN: | 9783905770827 |
Publisher: | JRP Ringier |
Published: | 1 July, 2007 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Spartacus Chetwynd
Edited by Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder. Text by Raphael Gygax. Published with the Migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
The UK-based artist Spartacus Chetwynd is known for her baroque, surreal performances that humorously bring together multiple visual references from art history and pop culture. One of Chetwynd's 2007 site-specific performances, sponsored by New York's Creative Time, was titled: "Soylent Green, King Kong, Kasuma & Paul Auster Improvs." She liberally mixes references like Yves Klein's "Anthropometries" and Hieronymous Bosch characters with heavy metal and Michael Jackson's "Thriller," somehow producing a unified whole that is evocative of how our culture disseminates information. As well as performances, Chetwynd who graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MFA in painting, produced a series of small canvases in 2004 and 2005 entitled "Bat Opera," They also quote pop culture, while featuring obscure bits of Romanticism gleaned from art history and literature. A well-designed introduction to this emerging artist's work, this volume is printed on 12 differently colored papers.
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