Drawing as much from the forefront of contemporary Pop culture as the bowels of forgotten history, my work provides a close examination of our society’s excessive infatuation with glamour, fortune, and fame. Building upon the dialogue begun by the Pop artists, I seek to underscore the superficiality of celebrity status in the face of current trends of cultural, economic, and environmental decay. Utilizing the accessibility and ease of execution offered by contemporary strategies of appropriation, my latest works appear muddy and garbled, mimicking the messy culture which they represent. Whether silk-screened portraits of celebrities long forgotten or sculptural remnants of abandoned muscle cars, my aesthetic of damage and tarnish serves to pay homage to the countless icons that have been lost in the depths of time.
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Zhivago Duncan
www.StudioOgaviz.com
Artist Biography
Born 1980, Terre Haute, Indiana. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
2007 BFA Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2010
The Beautiful and the Damned, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany
2007
For the Overeyes of the Underviewed, Private Loft of Shelley von Strunckel, London, UK
Accidental Crash, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Ein fest fur boris act 2, Vittorio Manalese, Berlin
Ein Fest fur Boris act 1, Vittorio Manalese, Berlin, Germany
Opening show, Joanna Seikaly Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
In fifteen minutes everyone will be famous, Tape Modern, Berlin, Germany
2009
Out of Wedding, Uferhellen, Berlin, Germany
No more sugar for the monkey, Stadtbad, Berlin, Germany
Lynch Mob, HBC & Kollektive, Belrin, Germany
2008
Galerie Mittwoch, Kolektiv, Berlin, Germany
Tape Modern Number 02, Berlin, Germany
2007
Requiem for a Gallerist, Kunst Salon Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Untitled Crash, AA Galleries, London, UK
Contraceptually Kinetic, Tease Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
2006
Swag, Corsica Studios, London, UK
2005
MMDAW, Chelsea College of Art Triangle Gallery, London, UK
2004
Till the End of Time, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
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