In his work, cultural touchstones ranged from high to low, including the artists Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, and Paul McCarthy, race - car driver Ayrton Senna, actor Kevin Costner, the big bang,
Swedish erotica, and the California gold rush.
The yellow assemblage entitled «
Swedish Erotica and Fierro Parts» was an ambiguous collision of autobiographical bric a brac, but it was perfectly calibrated for the times.
The exhibition at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel presents six of his major works: «
Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts» (1994); «My Brother / Brancuzi» (1995); «The Creation Myth» (1998); «My Madinah.
Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts» at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1994.
Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts, 1994.
The first, the 1994
Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts is a random symphony of yellow objects (dishes, legal pads) and random scraps of paper, wood, cardboard, plastic foam.
Yellow Fiero (1994), a Pontiac Fiero, was integral to the artist's 1994
Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts installation and specifically chosen for its cultural resonances as an ersatz version of a luxury sports car.