'Kurt Cobain`s Greenhouse' (2001)
Collaged lithograph, edition of 250
Signed by the artist
(17" x 23")
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six foot person and work to scale
Dexter Dalwood
1960
Dexter Dalwood's works embody our fascination with the private environments of the rich and famous; Dalwood makes paintings of famous places he's never seen which stem from his own imaginings, enhanced by exhaustive research of eyewitness testimonies, biographies, available imagery and personal memoirs offering plausible suggestions of those iconic haunts lingering invisibly in collective consciousness. Dalwood pictures his own documentation of history.
Drawing from his encyclopaedic knowledge of 20th century conspiracy theory, Dexter Dalwood constructs his scenes with forensic accuracy. In developing his ideas for paintings, Dexter Dalwood creates miniature collages, virtual interiors cut and pasted from select showpieces lifted from luxury design and travel magazines. Translated into paint, Dalwood retains their awkward collaged appearance, and further pushes their displacement through his appropriated painting style.
Dalwood's use of visual symbolism adds a profound complexity to his accursed legends. Drawing heavily from psychology, world politics, vox-pop trivia and appropriation of art history, Dexter Dalwood weaves together seemingly random elements into his own glossary of modern infamy.
Many of Dalwood's works are about death, or, more precisely, they are concerned with the locations or circumstances connected to someone's death. Brian Jones's Swimming Pool (2000) deals with a subject that has remained in the popular imagination since 1969: the mystery surrounding the death of Rolling Stones' founding member Brian Jones. The painting could almost be a still from a documentary, lingering on the details of the site of Jones's untimely death, and bringing to mind the arguments surrounding it. (The authorities asserted that his drowning was due to a drugs overdose, while conspiracy theorists claimed he was murdered.) Whatever actually happened, Dalwood presents us with the one piece of evidence he can produce – his own rendering of the location where it happened.
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