The Funnies
dal 18/11/2015 al 29/1/2016
Segnalato da
18/11/2015
The Funnies
MOTInternational Avenue Louise, Bruxelles
Seventeen artists whose works celebrate humour and share an incontestable taste for exaggeration, derision and slapstick. The works presented in the exhibition favours figuration over abstraction and straightforward gestures over evasive intellectualism.
The Funnies features seventeen artists whose works celebrate humour and share an incontestable taste for exaggeration, derision and slapstick: Charlie Billingham, Mel Bochner, Cosima von Bonin, Werner Büttner, George Condo, Philip Guston, Sanya Kantarovsky, Martin Kippenberger, Sarah Lucas, Simon Mathers, Helmut Middendorf, Oliver Osborne, Jon Pylypchuk, Anne Speier, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Jesse Wine and Rose Wylie.
Taking its title from the comics section of twentieth century American newspapers, The Funnies draws upon the visual language of the cartoon. Particularly popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ‘the funnies’ continue to punctuate the spaces between the Politics and Sport sections in magazines and newspapers. In contrast with the serious journalistic content, they offer light entertainment by distilling the news and incisively translating them into satyrical jokes.
The works presented in The Funnies favours figuration over abstraction and straightforward gestures over evasive intellectualism. The exhibition plays with forms such as parody, caricature and the absurd, paying homage to a subject often returned to within art: humour.
Image: Mel Bochner, Blah, Blah, Blah, 2015. Oil on canvas, 72.20 x 61 cm. Courtesy of Simon Lee Gallery
Private View: Thursday 19 November 6–9pm
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