Richard Prince

London

Sadie Coles HQ presents an exhibition featuring a painting series from American artist Richard Prince. It combines collages and bright abstract paintings on big scale canvases.

Prince widely became known with his iconic Cowboys series – rephotographs of Marlboro advertisements. From there, he dived into the world of words with his Joke paintings on which statements cover canvases. In 2007, Prince began his later works inspired by his previous Nurse Paintings. For this new exhibition, the artist mixes erotic nude collages with colorful drawings. As explained by Joan Katz ‘Richard collected some nudist cartoons by this guy John Dempsey. He inked jetted them up and drew a kind of hippie drawing over the collected cartoon… kind of like his hippie drawings that he did back in the last eighties. He turned the nudist cartoon into something about free love.’

Richard Prince, Free Love #209, 2015, ink jet, acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 190.5 x 139.7 x 3.6 cm / 75 x 55 x 1 ½ in, Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Richard Prince, Free Love #267, 2015, ink jet, acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 190.5 x 139.7 cm / 75 x 55 in, Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
Richard Prince
Sadie Coles

April 12 – June 18, 2016

62 Kingly Street
London W1B 5QN
United Kingdom

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