I Moustache You a Question About These Contemporary Paintings
Attached to this post are two images of sketches to new paintings that have yet to be produced physically.
The first image contains sketches of the proposed ‘moustache paintings’ (see post #21), and an ‘ivory painting’ that much like ‘Gold’ (2013, see image) would depict an object of greed and defective use repeatedly. As a possible symbol of nationalism and a good or bad memory to different communities, both gold and ivory have tantalised not just societies in the western hemisphere but across different continents, as these mere trinket inanimate items have the power to start and end wars. In this conversation, the proposed depiction of smoke-pipes into this practices visual palette would not necessarily replicate that of influential contemporary painters such as Ryan Mosley (b. 1980) working today, but rather continue the progress of representing this eccentricly iconic object in contemporary painting as one of many dinosaur bones in the Natural History Museum.
There are sketches of proposed paintings that include a rasping, sweating tuba on a sculpted pedestal; a cave mouth constructed from stalagmites and stalagtites; and a star being fired from a circus cannon.
Further sketches in the second image include a panel full of strangely hooded shopping carrier bags; moustaches; abstract clay sculptures; ideas for a portrait featuring an Amish hair style; a bearded skull; a socialist realist star sculpture; a gangsta bandana; boiled eggs; and a cut-out face portrait featuring a triangular nose and moon-shaped mouth. However many of these ideas will become a reality is yet to be established, though out of the sketches shown from the second image the most coherent seem to be: the moustaches, and the hooded shopping carrier bags.
What this means is that the practice has NOT and will NOT sell-out, suddenly changing visual styles and imagery just to grab a chance at becoming a profitable painter capable of selling work. This is not capitalistism, this is evolution.
