There is no easy recovery here, no recovery at all, only a new and
unsettling series of images and questions:
Not exact matches
One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality»
series of sculptures — diving face - first into the aesthetic realms
of kitsch tchotchkes and making
unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated
image of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).
First displayed in his solo London exhibition Renewal
of the Sacred that year, SINDONE NERA salvages the only
image of Jesus referenced in Christianity: his face impressed on a shroud — «the first
of a long
series of divine
images that have
unsettled me since I was a child», says Curto.
A quintessential California photographer, Larry Sultan first came to notice for his 1977
series Evidence, for which he rifled through the photographic storerooms
of the San Jose Police Department, the United States Department
of the Interior, and other agencies in search
of the strangest, least explicable, most
unsettling images he could find.
A collaboration with Sabine Gruhn Private View: Thurs 15.04.2010, 6.30 — 8.30 pm For this collaboration, photographer Sabine Gruhn and artist Noëmi Lakmaier have brought together their diverse practices to create a
series of unsettling, yet humorous
images taken in the offices
of London based arts organisations.