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Urban Legends, 2012 (Oil on canvas)

Urban Legends, 2012 (Oil on canvas)
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Image title
Urban Legends, 2012 (Oil on canvas)
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Artist
Collishaw, Mat (b.1966) / British
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Date
2012 AD (C21st AD)
Image description

This is Not an Exit, 2013 From a distance these large-scale works appear as abstract paintings, but closer observation reveals pages of advertisements ripped from luxury magazines like Tatler and Vogue. Powdery remnants expose the pages to be ‘wraps’ used by drug dealers to package cocaine.

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© Mat Collishaw. All rights reserved 2024 / Bridgeman Images
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21st century / art / contemporary art / greed / seven deadly sins / cocaine / drug / colour / art installation / luxury / magazine / Press (media) / fashion / rubbish / page (book) / book / paper / painting / pleasure / feeling / advertising / nobody / consumer society / society / trompe l'oeil / optical effect / vice / black and white / oil painting / 2010s / mzpainting / upper class / social class / addiction / texture / contemporary artist / Collishaw Mat (b.1966) / England / United Kingdom / Europe / artist / Young British Artists

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