2021
Acrylic on Paper
76 x 56 cm
Estimate TWD 280,000-400,000
USD 9,200-13,100
HKD 0-0
Hammer Price TWD 312,000
USD 10,253
HKD 82,540
With a certificate of authenticity from gallery
Provenance：Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Illustrated：
Exhibition：
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David Shrigley is best known for his distinctive drawing style and works that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions. David Shrigley was born in 1968 in UK, where he currently lives and continue to create. David Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. His storytelling two-dimensional views of the world, is like a eavesdropper shouting out loud satirical comments.
Shrigley’s art first found fans in the mid-90s, where his frank, funny tributes to futility and despair somehow struck a chord. Shrigley’s work remains culturally ubiquitous. Even more unexpectedly, his observations feel directly attuned to the humour of today. In the past decade, deadpan self-awareness – reading either endearingly defiant or vaguely deranged – has almost become the language of the internet, particularly when channelled through memes.
Although he isn’t a big user of social media himself, Shrigley says that he notices similarities between his work and social media parlance. “I deliberately seek to make work that delivers messages that arrive de-contextualised, [because] that’s where the oblique comedy comes from,” he explains. “It’s the same with social media, tweets or Instagram posts – they arrive de-contextualised… and seem oblique and strange and mordant. They just refer to something very, very specific or don’t refer to anything, and they become re-contextualised by the person who reads them.”
In this original painting by David Shrigley, the caption reads "Inside the safe, dirt, fluff, hairs, air, strange smell, jewels." It discuss the reality that is usually not associated with the idea of a safe. The jewels in the idle corners have accumulated dust and dirt over time, since the door of the safe is often kept close, it eventually produces a peculiar smells. Generally regarded as an object that contain our previous valuables, but in realist is filled with air most of the time. The artist uses basic lines and shapes, and a childlike yet playful style to present the appearance of a safe in a simple and direct manner. The correction of spelling adds charisma to the painting, provoking an approachable feeling that makes people smile. Shrigley also works across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. Shrigley consistently seeks to reach a larger audience by operating outside the gallery sphere, working on individual artist publications and creative music projects.
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