Neal Fox: Beware of the God


Neal Fox hat für sein Projekt "Beware of the God", das noch bis zum 10. August 2011 in London zu sehen ist, zwölf Kirchenfenster hergestellt und mit popkulturellen Ikonen wie Hunter S. Thompson, Albert Hofmann, etc. bemalt.
"As traditional church windows show the iconography of saints, through representations of events in their lives, instruments of martyrdom and iconic motifs, Fox plays with the symbolism of each character’s cult of personality; Albert Hoffman takes a psychedelic bicycle ride above the LSD molecule, J G Ballard dissects the world, surrounded by 20th Century imagery and the eroticism of the car crash, and Johnny Cash holds his inner demon in chains after a religious experience in Nickerjack cave. One quality in particular binds these characters and the others together; a refusal to conform and conviction in their own ideology. Working with traditional methods ... Fox is producing a set of twelve 2.5 metre high stained-glass windows; exhibited in a single room – an alternative church of alternative saints ..."
(via Animal)
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