Wednesday 16 January 2013

Death: A self-portrait (The Richard Harris Collection)

A free exhibition which should not be missed! 300 treasures gives complex and contradictory attitudes toward death. Ideas related to death: Contemplating Death, The Dance of Death, Violent Death, Eros and Thanatos, Commemoration giving different perspectives about Death.

I have got 2 favorites:
Calevera Mondongo collective (Argentina) which is a collage and is so complex and colourful.

The second favorite is a George Grosz collage: "Faces of Death". Final truth about death - its uncanny facelessness. Transposing skulls onto "found" photographic portraits, also poking fun at the conventions of art and advertising.


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