Dirk Bell - Contemporary Artists

Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex

Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex The Saatchi Gallery
 

Dirk Bell

Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex

2006
Mixed media on canvas

230 x 140 cm

The pictures within the frame of Rabbit’s Moon, depicting posing figures, illustrations in books, and other less easily identifiable shapes, are on the same illusory plane as the skull, glass of wine, bottle and ashtray next to which they stand, and contain the same visually hallucinogenic power.

In the limb-plagued Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex, two figures, one holding the other, are set against a background full of multiple marks suggesting motion. The exact meaning of the work is as impenetrable as similarly gestural prehistoric cave paintings.
 
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