Video: Frivolous Drawings by the Serious Artist David Shrigley
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Demotivators, postcards and just pictures with funny, "thoughtful" or naive captions have become extremely popular over the past couple of years, especially on social networks. Although this format is the younger brother of cartoons, comics and illustrations, well-deserved and time-tested genres, few people take it seriously. Or maybe it would be worth it, given that the new list of nominees for one of the world's most prestigious awards in the field of contemporary art - the Turner Prize - includes the name of David Shrigley.
Although Shrigli works in a wide variety of visual art genres, from sculpture to animation, he is primarily known for his drawings. And he doesn't have to complain about the lack of demand or lack of fans. The artist has published several books, led a weekly column in the magazine, shot a video clip for the group, released a music album with the participation of, and, and held several dozen solo exhibitions in Europe and America.
Shrigli's works fell in love with the public for their peculiar vision of the world: his pictures are nervous, confusing and disorderly, but at the same time, somewhat childishly sincere and naive, as if a child developed beyond his years imitated the pompous primitivist manner of an adult artist. The thick black line of its marker, without a visible algorithm, wanders over the working surface, and yet it always arrives unmistakably exactly where it belongs, capturing and fixing one or another eternal theme, or just a fleeting impression.
For Shrigli, the drawing remained a process of pure self-expression, like a kid who consciously picked up a pencil for the first time in his life. Only themes and plots have changed. “I remember sitting down to paint when I was four or five,” says David. - By and large, the process itself has not changed, although I am already an adult. Drawing still gives me pleasure on its own, regardless of the result. Drawing was fun in kindergarten, and it's still fun now."
Higher art education does not prevent Shrigli from admitting that he cannot draw, in the academic sense of the word: “I am simply not interested in a realistic rendering of three-dimensional space. I'm not particularly good at it, and I'm a mediocre draftsman. Of course, my graphics are well thought out, or at least meet the task at hand, but still this is not an illustration."
The Turner Prize nomination for him is a big gesture, a sign of recognition from the rather snobbish world of modern art, where anything that can be called fun, playful and public is rarely allowed.
Eduardo Salles, about whom we already wrote, is one of many illustrators working in a similar genre.
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