Agathe Snow - Contemporary Artists

Four (Center Cross)

Four (Center Cross) The Saatchi Gallery
 

Agathe Snow

Four (Center Cross)

2007
Mixed-media sculpture - materials include balloons, found objects, cloth, wood, concrete and wire mesh

Dimensions vary with installation. 320 x 330 x 100 cm

Snow explains this series of work as being about “cartooning archetypes of power that I hated, with Mother Nature on my side”. Drawing together a wide variety of reference points – from
consumer culture to Renaissance painting – Snow’s Four (Center Cross) humorously poses as a contemporary St. Sebastian, a stick-riddled martyr of modern decadence. Nailed to a graffitied
crucifix, conveying a medieval jubilee at the display of enemy corpses, Four (Center Cross) is a triumph of loathing and decay, its battered shopping bag and McDonald’s flag denoting a member of the foe camp.
 
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