Video: The Big Win porcelain figurines. Modern society life in vintage style
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Moralizers often resort to rhetoric: “What kind of morals are they now? They used to be!..”This is how the artist tries to understand modern morals, modern morality with the help of the trends of the past! Barnaby Barfordwho created the series porcelain figurines The Big Win: a modern morality tale.
Porcelain figurines are as popular today as they were during Victorian England. Only now they carry modern motives, modern plots, modern trends. Think of the Victorian porcelain girls without heads by Jessica Harrison or the series Love is … by Barnaby Burford.
This is the work of Burford and will be discussed today. Indeed, the other day in the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, an exhibition of his works with the title The Big Win: a modern morality tale opened.
This exposition consists of seven works, in each of which, using porcelain, wood, fabric, paper and other materials, a certain composition has been created, a scene showing various aspects of the life of modern society.
For example, in one of these scenes, a husband was shown lying on the couch, eating pizza and watching boxing on TV, while his pregnant wife spins around, trying in every possible way to please his spouse. On the other, there is a man buying lottery tickets in the hope of winning a lot of money. On the third - a man carefully considering the offer of paid sex.
Barnaby Burford himself explains the meaning of his works from the series The Big Win: a modern morality tale: “With my work, I explore the transformation of human values that occurs under the influence of the desire to get happiness, friendship, love, money. In my works, the ups and downs of a modern person are shown in detail, who does not at all seek to take an active position in life, but at the same time wants to live well, glamorously, and is going to achieve his goals, for example, by winning the lottery."
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