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matt lipps In the series, Horses, Matt Lipps seeks to intertwine large-format photography and low-tech sculptural forms in an elaborate narrative using horses as his main protagonists. "The project started when I’d heard that my estranged Father had 'Googled' my name to find out more about my life. So, in turn, I 'Googled' him and found he was working on a Biography about Anna Sewell - the author of Black Beauty," said Lipps. So begins the rhizomatic structure of his endeavor as the artist weaves together threads from his own personal biography; his projection onto the character of Black Beauty; the symbolic, riderless horse Black Jack - a double-entendre, also referring to the Black Plague; the AIDS pandemic, once referred to as a "Gay Plague"; and, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - all set to the backdrop of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (seen as a proverbial cruising ground - for Father and Son, Death and Antonius Block, and/or two men seeking mutual pleasure). For more information see mattlipps.com/pages/horses_text.html C-print on Plexi, edition of 3 +1AP |
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