'The Fun One Hundred' (2001)
Screenprint, edition of 250
Signed by the artist
(23" x 33")
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six foot person and work to scale
Peter Davies
1970
Peter Davies' colourful lists inspired by conceptualism's dry text works rank modern and contemporary artists according to his opinions, these text based paintings explore the role of the artist in defining popular culture while combining certain art historical and contemporary art notions with everyday life or culture. The intentionally anti-aesthetic lists take something which is understood, accepted or acknowledged and while adhering to those givens, something from the contemporary world is thrown in to skew it.
Davies' text works seem far removed from the the traditional notion of how conceptual, text based art should appear. His wordy arrangements arrangements explain how things stand in a particular system without recourse to a traditional forms of representation. As works of art they are homorously reflexive, dwelling upon the artistic context that they are part of.
As in The Fun One Hundred. Davies says "The text paintings offer a playful and humorous take on my attempt to understand art history and contemporary art". Davies' lists offers explanations as to why these artists are 'fun', such as 'David Hockney - Pool Attendant' and 'Vanessa Beecroft - Hanging Out'.
A Goldsmiths' graduate, Davies' text paintings debuted at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997 and he has since exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Gagosian Gallery and Saatchi Gallery, London.
Peter Davies was awarded the John Moores prize in 2002.
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