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Andres SerranoHoly Works: Pieta - Contemporary, 21st Century, Digital Print, Limited Edition2012
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Andres Serrano
Holy Works: Pieta - Contemporary, 21st Century, Digital Print, Limited Edition
Contemporary, 21st Century, Digital Print, Limited Edition
C-Print
Edition of 50
29,8 x 23,4 cm (11.7 x 9.2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the images.
The pictures are only for illustrative reasons, the work is offered unframed.
Pieta is part of the Holy Works series by Serrano. From the very beginning of his artistic career, sacred icons were among key elements in his work, which comes as a result of the artist's own religious reflections. Serrano is known for the use of unconventional medium and challenging imagery as in his famous Piss Christ. Through his photographs, Serrano often reconciles the sacred and the profane. Holy Works series present a new development in Serrano's work, where he set off to explore the language of the silhouette.
"There is only one thing that I am looking for – Beauty." —Andres Serrano
Drawn to the aesthetics of Renaissance art, Pieta refers to Michelangelo's sculpture as his subject. The figure in the center is not given lightly, only the background is illuminated, thus there is only the silhouette of what is meant to be the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. This print comes together with a Collector's Edition.
ANDRES SERRANO
Serrano is notorious for his use of human corpses and bodily fluids to produce his controversial images. His´s works examine the fundamentals of aesthetics and social perception.
Serrano is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background and was raised as a strict Roman Catholic. He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum and Art School. Later he worked as assistant art director at an advertising firm, before creating his first works in 1983.
"I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones." —Andres Serrano
The artist rose to prominence with his work "Piss Christ", a photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. The work caused a storm of controversy and was the central element in the so-called culture wars of the late 1980s and 1990s. While Serrano's most famous and notorious work examines the fundamentals of aesthetics, it also challenges the social perception through beautiful images, which are often created from vulgar and sometimes repulsive materials.
- Creator:Andres Serrano (1950, American)
- Creation Year:2012
- Dimensions:Height: 11.74 in (29.8 cm)Width: 9.22 in (23.4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zug, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1562211061322
Andres Serrano
Born 1950, New York City; lives and works in New York City. Since the mid 1980s, Andres Serrano has been one of the most famous active American photographers. Serrano studied sculpture and painting at the Brooklyn Museum and Art School from 1967-1969 and began creating photography in the early 1980s. His training in painting and sculpture, along with his strict Roman Catholic upbringing, would play a major role in shaping his work. Serrano’s photography often evokes both striking physicality and spirituality. He is well known for creating large scale images that incorporate bodily fluids and religious iconography. One of Serrano’s most famous and controversial images, Piss Christ (1987), depicted a plastic crucifix submerged in urine. Though not intended to shock, his work is nevertheless emotionally provocative. In spite of the controversy surrounding some of his images, Serrano’s original style has made him one of the most influential contemporary photographers. Serrano’s work is featured in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, to name a few.
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