2,200.00€
Oil on canvas: 90cm x 73.5cm x 4cm
Signed and dated by artist (reverse)
Catalogue reference: CK-jj023
One could argue that the most dangerous chemical weapon in the world is testosterone. There appears little reduction in the appetite of the powerful to use their positions for ruthless and selfish gain. The dictator, oppressor, bully and self-elected chief is still a troublingly common phenomenon, busily at work across the globe. One which we struggle to grapple and still appear to have little collective ability to extinguish.
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Artists Notes:
Listening to the BBC’s renowned world service radio broadcast can be a positive global enlightener. Conversely, it provides a potent, head-spinning cocktail of questions about humanity that can produce such a depressive hangover that it is advisable not to swallow it more than one shot glass at a time.
The daily reporting of the abuse of official power across politics, commerce and the environment remains striking. As we approach the close of the first quarter of the 21st Century there seems no reduction in the world’s web of dictators, autocrats, potentates, despots and self-elected chiefs. Clockwork Kings is an exploration of these sentiments—a commentary on the sense of impotence they impose on the ‘average’ individual’s attempt to lead an open, pain-free and productive existence.
The fleur-de-lys
This mark, used by numerous institutions, organisations and often woven into European heraldic devices, is perhaps most commonly associated with the French monarchy (since the 12 Century). There is on-going debate as to whether this symbol of purity was based on a lily or iris. Widely used as a prestigious decorative embellishment it also has a dark historical past as a mark employed to brand escaped slaves in places with French colonial links such as Mauritius and Southern American states.
Dystopia
The dystopian society is already here—you only need add a a see-through plastic Macintosh to one or two individuals in the queue at an airport passport control and you are in scene from Terry Gillian’s Brazil or Scott’s Blade runner.
