Acquisition :
2008
Description
2004
Lego and Plexiglas
10 x10 x 10 cm
Purchase SPACE Liège
The Little Artists, a duo formed by John
Cake and Darren Neave, treat the small world
of contemporary art with British irreverence
. For example, they play
Pictionary with the great names of British art
, exhibit Gavin
Turk’s garbage cans, and make
toilet paper roll cover dolls inspired by
Grayson Perry’s dresses. But they are best known
for their Lego
brick reinterpretations of modern and contemporary works of art.
By plundering the work and strategies of other
artists in order to distill their own, the Little Artists
question the place of the artist in a
society submerged by image and advertising.
The piece acquired by SPACE is one of
their most accomplished works, in which
they attack the portrait of Andy Warhol,
whose influence they claim, considering
that without him their work would have had no
artistic value. In addition to the
customization of a Lego figurine, they rediscover the essence
of Warhol’s world with the repetition of the same
motif: the 100-dollar bill.
(Genaro Marcos)