Tag Archives: Richard Prince

London: Richard Prince ‘Cartoon Over Cartoon’ @ Sadie Coles

Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon

Controversial artist known as the master of re-appropriation, Richard Prince is currently exhibiting at Sadies Cole in London. ‘Cartoon Over Cartoon‘ is a reprisal of the artist’s work with jokes and cartoons via collage and the re-contextualisation of the nude in painting.  According to Prince the art of the joke is ‘in the re-telling’.

Juxtaposing humorous text and jokes with lewd cartoon nudes, Richard Prince highlights the inauthenticity of the image.

Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon  Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon   Richard Prince - Cartoon over CartoonRichard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon  Richard Prince 08   Richard Prince 09

“Richard collected some nudist cartoons by this guy John Dempsey. He inked jetted them up and drew a kind of hippie drawing over the collected cartoon… kind of like his hippie drawings that he did back in the late eighties. He turned the nudist cartoon into something about free love. Richard always wanted to be part of a commune, but knew that kind of utopia would never work out. At least that is what he figured. It was a good idea, the commune… but in the end…he ended up painting the commune” – Joan Katz.
Richard Prince - Cartoon over CartoonRichard Prince - Cartoon over CartoonRichard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon   Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon    Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon

View the full set of pics here

Richard Prince: Cartoon Over Cartoon
until 18 June 2016
Sadie Coles HQ
Kingly Street
London

Advertisement

Paris: Richard Prince – New Figures

Richard Prince - New figures

New York based contemporary artist Richard Prince  goes neo-Cubist with a beautiful body of photo collage paintings titled New Figures at Gallery Almine Rech in Paris.

The drawn lines, pale colors, and collaged shapes refer to Picasso’s elegant lines and Matisse’s scissor-snipped collages, before American art went Pop and life turned electronic. Some of the girls are covered with drawn bodies, another’s arms morph into geometric or schematic appendages in a freehand combination of image, design, and drawing.

Richard Prince - New figuresRichard Prince - New figures     Richard Prince - New figuresRichard Prince - New figuresRichard Prince - New figuresRichard Prince - New figuresRichard Prince - New figures

View the full set of pics here

Richard Prince – New Figures
Until 20 December 2014
Almine Rech Gallery
Paris