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| I'm Dead, 2010 |
A
retrospective devoted to Scottish artist David Shrigley (b. 1968) just opened at
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. According to YBCA,
"David Shrigley: Brain Activity, curated by Cliff Lauson of the
Hayward Gallery, London, is the largest survey of the artist’s work to
date, and features groupings of drawings and paintings on paper, a
variety of sculptures, several installations, sets of photographs and a
selection of animations."
All photos from YBCA.
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| The Bell, 2007 |
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| Untitled, 2009 |
From an interview with David Shrigley –
"Well, I suppose it’s a cathartic thing. It enables you to say what
you want to say, and vent your anger about just the lunatic, idiot world
we live in. I think I’m a much saner person because I’m able to be an
artist, or be a kind of artist that I am, where you can make work about
how horrible people are, and how unacceptable it is that they are so
horrible and how unacceptable it is that people accept how horrible
these people are. I kind of assume that’s a given for everybody, that
everybody feels that there are quite a number of aspects of contemporary
life in an advanced capitalist society that are really unacceptable,
but what can we do to change it? Make stupid drawings I suppose."
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| Do Not Linger At The Gate, 2008 |
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| Boots, 2010 |
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| Nailed Biscuit, 2001 |
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| OoO, 2007 |
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| Lightswitch, 2007 |
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| Sleep, 2008 |
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| Balloon, 2008 |
