Zuzu Fridays z01*

It’s Friday!  Here is a little visual treat before you start the weekend…

Out of another person’s purge for “it’s-the-new-year-get-rid-of-all-this-shit”, I gained this deck of playing cards designed by South African (Belgium-based) artist Kendell Geers.

Geers is known for his performance at the Venice Biennale in 1993 where he pissed into Duchamp’s Fountain.

Anyone down for Texas Hold ‘Em?

From the Goodman Gallery website:

A provocative figure in the South African art world since the 1990s, Kendell Geers is known for work that stakes out a radical position from which to take aim at both the art establishment and society in general, to interrogate our existing moral codes and to suggest new approaches. Working in a wide variety of media, he uses and subverts familiar signs from art history and pop culture. Famously pissing into Duchamp’s urinal in Venice, he rejects the sanctity of ‘the canon’ and the inviolability of history, insisting on a position that poses its own questions and comes to its own conclusions.

Geers’ work, site-specific by nature, is designed to force a physical confrontation with the viewer, and is concerned with power, its relations, and the manner in which it shapes our experiences. Often described as interventions, the relentless physicality of his work acts to shock and disrupt our perception of the status quo – to map the degree to which individual agency is constrained by the existing establishment, and to attempt to explode those borders.

 

*Look for more Zuzu Fridays…this is the first go at a weekly post about all things weird, pervy, vampy, sexy…or just plain effed up.