A Triumph of Creativity Over Evil Painting

This painting was made after a short stay at the Merz Barn in the Lake District. The Merz Barn was the last 'Merz' work by German born artist Kurt Schwitters, and the work inside was Schwitters last and remained unfinished. Currently the Merz Barn acts as a retreat/gallery in the countryside for artists and the general public. During my visit the the barn it was housing an exhibition of various photos and small works in tribute to the victims of the holocaust, and is set up as a memorial site. Although Schwitters was not Jewish he was wanted by the Nazis as a contemporary artist, and was included in the Degenerate Art exhibition. He settled in England having fled Germany during the war. In the exhibition there was a piece of text titled 'A Triumph of Creativity Over Evil', suggesting that, despite the recent rise in the right-wing, Hitler's idea to create an Aryan super-race have largely died out, whereas the degenerate artwork lives on. The image features the two people who have been running the Merz site for a number of years, Ian Hunter and Celia Larner, 'getting their own back' on Hitler. This of course takes influence from my own childhood, watching Get Your Own Back with Dave Benson Phillips on TV. Hitler sits above the gunge pool, filled with images from artists whose work is now some of the most valued in modern art history, but were considered to be degenerates by the Nazi party. The work was featured in The Guardian, an article about my work titled "The new degenerate: the artist dunking Hitler in gunge".

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.4 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in

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