Hockney Still Life S.A.C.111
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About This Work
David Shrigley’s *Hockney Still Life S.A.C.111* reframes the venerable still life tradition through his characteristically dry wit and graphic economy. Executed with pared-back line and declarative composition, the work adopts an intentionally “unfinished” directness—an aesthetic that turns simplicity into critique, and drawing into a form of conceptual punctuation. By invoking Hockney as a cultural touchstone, Shrigley collapses hierarchies between high modernist legacy and everyday visual language, asking how images accrue authority in the contemporary moment. The still life becomes less a study of objects than a study of attention, taste, and art-world mythmaking. A sharp example of Shrigley’s contemporary British art practice, it resonates with today’s meme-like circulation of icons, where humour and provocation carry serious charge.
About the Artist
David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Shrigley first came to prominence in the 1990s for his distinct line drawings, which often deal with witty, surreal and darkly h...
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