Robert Loughlin Brute, Black Marker on Book, Signed

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Robert Loughlin Brute, Black Marker on Book, Signed

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Robert Loughlin Brute, Black Marker on Found Spanish Book, Signed. Well executed Brute in black "Sharpie" on the cover of a 1930's Spanish language learning book, "Spanish Book One" by Friedman/Ariona/Carvajal. Initialed in the lower left corner "RL 08". Robert was my friend and I was gifted the book by a mutual friend in October, 2011. Artist Overview by Stephen Neil Greengard, circa 1990: Robert Loughlin is a latter-day Vandal. He defiles worn out standards and in the process creates a new art (although he would probably protest the epithet ‘artist’ precisely because he refuses to be sighted, catalogued, described, defined. He ransacks antique stores, thrift shops, flea markets, galleries, estates, and emerges with some treasure or monstrosity as proof of his visit. He will paint anything: furniture, wood, metal, plastic, glass, textiles, nothing is sacred. And a good thing too, because paradoxically, what he destroys he improves. That is the essence of his art. Loughlin demonstrates this even on the surfaces of his own canvases, painting over paintings, applying new surfaces and partially removing them to reveal a multi-layered history. The richness of these exercises improves with time and reveal more of his basic iconography. Loughlin’s obsessions are: Modern design and freedom (not necessarily in that order.) These he wields daily. Hourly. And they are everywhere visible in his work. His figures are men, brutish to the point of pornography, but this veiled sexuality is merely a vehicle to escape the ugliness of the city. They are projections of his wildness, his ideal of freedom. They are heroic. Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. It may be the preservation of the world. Graffiti- now rather a bad word among art-thinking circles- still means, and one hopes always will mean a crude, vital drawing or inscription on stone, plaster or some other hard surface. It is a form of poetry; signals, not always liable to interpretation, of the same order as the Prehistoric cave painting or the strip of papyrus. They remind us. Loughlin’s work is dark, yet luminous. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible.

Creator:
Robert Loughlin (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 1.19 in (3 cm)Width: 6.19 in (15.7 cm)Depth: 9.06 in (23 cm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper
Place of Origin:
North America
Period:
2000-2009
Date of Manufacture:
2008
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor structural damages. Book's binding is distressed but book is in stable condition.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU956924180722