Mike Parr
Dark Cave

20th November – 19th December 2015
Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Instal­la­tion view

  • Instal­la­tion view

  • Mug shots (when I per­ceived the delights of Paradise), 2015
    Acrylic on canvas
    214 x 297 cm

  • Encephal­ic Head (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
    Acrylic and red oxide on canvas
    214 x 298 cm

  • The robot paints (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
    Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
    214 x 287 cm

  • I am ner­vous (dead mat­ter from the inte­ri­or of wounds) (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
    Acrylic and pumice on canvas
    214 x 280 cm

  • About the syco­phants (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
    Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
    214 x 299 cm

  • The wash­ing of feet (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
    Acrylic, char­coal and pumice on canvas
    214 x 288 cm

  • Metho­d­onized, 2015
    Acrylic, enam­el and char­coal on canvas
    214 x 299 cm

  • Divid­ed by strychnine, 2015
    Acrylic, pas­tel pow­der, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
    214 x 295 cm

  • Butch­er in German, 2015
    Acrylic, ink and red oxide on canvas
    214 x 298 cm

  • A room equipped to exclude actinic rays, 2015
    Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
    202 x 285 cm

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The ideas in a work of art are its raw mate­ri­als and not its meaning.

Theodor Adorno

It’s poetry’s job not to oppose evil but to imag­ine it.

Robert Dun­can

Images

Instal­la­tion view

Instal­la­tion view

Mike Parr

Mug shots (when I per­ceived the delights of Paradise), 2015
Acrylic on canvas
214 x 297 cm

Mike Parr

Encephal­ic Head (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
Acrylic and red oxide on canvas
214 x 298 cm

Mike Parr

The robot paints (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
214 x 287 cm

Mike Parr

I am ner­vous (dead mat­ter from the inte­ri­or of wounds) (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
Acrylic and pumice on canvas
214 x 280 cm

Mike Parr

About the syco­phants (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
214 x 299 cm

Mike Parr

The wash­ing of feet (from the series ​‘Find­ing a Hole in Nature’), 2015
Acrylic, char­coal and pumice on canvas
214 x 288 cm

Mike Parr

Metho­d­onized, 2015
Acrylic, enam­el and char­coal on canvas
214 x 299 cm

Mike Parr

Divid­ed by strychnine, 2015
Acrylic, pas­tel pow­der, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
214 x 295 cm

Mike Parr

Butch­er in German, 2015
Acrylic, ink and red oxide on canvas
214 x 298 cm

Mike Parr

A room equipped to exclude actinic rays, 2015
Acrylic, red oxide and char­coal on canvas
202 x 285 cm

Mike Parr