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RICHARD PHILLIPS

 

Canyons II, archival pigment print, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. /39.8 x 30 inches, edition 25, signed and numbered, 2015

€ 1500,-

 

 

Richard Phillips, responds to the controversial reception of his Playboy Marfa sculpture (a 12-meter neon bunny commissioned by its namesake publisher) that was installed alongside Texas’s Highway 90 in 2013 until deemed illegal and taken down. With Canyons II, Phillips revisits the playboy logo super-imposing it onto an impressionist interpretation of the Mexican serape rug. Once seen as a pure art form and a symbol of Mexican cultural wealth, these rugs now more often taken to be tourist items or connote the drug rugs made popular by surf culture. In this print, Phillips plays with “heritage” décor as it relates to the accelerated hoarding of property and wealth associated with art and gentrification in west Texas.

 

Lindsay II, 25 colour screen print on 410 gsm. Somerset Tub-sized, 49 x 80 cm. /19 x 31.5 inches, edition 150, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate, 2013

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