VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Printmaking, Lithograph on Paper
Size: 16.5 W x 11.7 H x 0 D in
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Medusa’s Lair is a panorama of subterranean delights, a triumphiant trompe l’oeil where everyone is on the brink of polymorphously perverse climax. It captures a liminal state between a painting and a film, suggested by the 16:9 black bar framing (letterboxing). To dramatise this idea: the people in the painting are in a stone sofa that’s perfectly moulded around the current shape of their bodies, halting the suggested movement of film. This idea is also followed through to the mechanics of composition where in order to mimic the ‘wide angle camera lens’ effect I used curvilinear perspective and studied the inner workings of a movie camera. The man in the top right falls asleep into his mane as if it were a neck pillow to rest his head in at a departure lounge. His claw knuckle-busters effetely pierce a chocolate coated strawberry, taken from the ritualistic, lingam-yoni inflected chocolate fountain stalagmite scene on the right. The chards of the chandelier mimic stalactites from the roof of the cave. The girl on the bottom right (me) dons a vaudevillian corset with an Edwardian ruff, accidentally doubling as a napkin on the table, pre-emptively mopping up a falling martini glass. Medusa is in ritual communion with the snake; a closer look reveals a pattern in the snake doubling as an eye, while the tongue of the creature and woman meet seductively. In the top left, a satyr’s horned crown vies for similitude with the chard-chandelier. The piece plays into New Media’s dissolution of the static, coherent image, encapsulated by the modern iPhone boomerang format and 80s vogueing (simultaneously a dance and a pose) while also paying homage to the sensuous nudes of Caravaggio and classical antiquity.
Printmaking:Lithograph on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:200
Size:16.5 W x 11.7 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Beatrix Haxby’s work spans painting, drawing, performance and sculpture. The perpetual motion machine of her imagination creates high speed collisions between High and Low culture, surrealist esoterica and a latent, sapphic Paganism that imbues animals and women with mythic significance. The muse holds the key, the chatelaine of her canvas-cosmos. Velasquez’ penchant for the cameo, Dalí’s sybaritism: the cinematic sweep of her compositions seamlessly sample a multitude of genres and stylistic influences. These tenebrous and thoroughly composed vignettes, seemingly formed from private corners of the mind in true Surrealist praxis - also form a lattice of coincidence in the outside world. The graffiti classicism motif is inspired by her backdrop of 21st century Britain: crumbling neoclassical hubris and street art. One eye on her inner world, another on the outer, she is constantly assessing her surroundings and anticipating trends. She makes work in Leeds and London.
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