scope art fair new york 2009
artinfo.com text by: robert ayers
So all-pervading is the cartoon theme that even a lot of the work that falls outside of it is infected by it. There is Without You Baby, There Ain’t No Us, a special project commissioned by the Scope Foundation from the young Swiss artists who call themselves The Invisible Heroes. This is the group who last year staged the hilariously Dada-esque installation with dollar bills for sale for a range of different prices. Apparently they are still looking for a buyer for the bill they priced at $4 million.
This time around they have produced a series of colored pencil drawings based on video clips sourced from YouTube. These are priced at $300 each, or $450 for some special “adult” examples based on YouPorn videos. Though these aren’t literally cartoon-based works — with one or two exceptions, like Buddy Rich at the Muppets Show — the combination of hand-drawn technique and video source material is enough for them to be dragged under the cartoonish spell of the fair. The same happens to Allison Schulnik’s Hobo Clown video at New York’s Mike Weiss Gallery, as well as Marc Séguin’s La Piñata, a stuffed American bald eagle painted with tar, presented by Miami’s Charest-Weinberg and suspended high above the fair’s entryway. In this context, the taxidermic bird seems to have flown in directly from the world of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
SOLD. THANK YOU.
SOLD. THANK YOU.
SOLD. THANK YOU.
SOLD. THANK YOU.
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