Art with a capital offender is intended to stir, to convulse the conscience, to alter the routine of idioms, from the commonplace, the previously established scripts, to discover with renewed strength, the very possibility of SER. It is the antidote to mental laziness and sensory.
art and this art must move you do, you may like or not, may offend or may not, under the eyes that look, but it remains to show facets of reality, different aspects and therefore notwould psychotic attacks forced him to remain hospitalized with some frecuencia.Siendo still a child, Andres Serrano lived for a time in Honduras. He had gone there with his mother to visit his father, who lived with three women at a time, alternating periods with each of them. Serrano
During that time lived in the forest, the estate of her paternal grandmother until his mother came to fetch him to take him back to New York. He grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood dominated families of Italian origin. With sixteen years he returned to Honduras to visit his father, their relationship did not continue after this visit.
His childhood and youth was marked by the Catholic religion, as it grew and're of the Catholic religion is purely cosmetic, since nothing is confirmed, with thirteen years he left the church forever. He knew from an early age she wanted to be an artist, and directed his steps to achieve this goal. As a boy of fifteen left school to enroll in 1967 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School, where the center did not require their students that they had previous studies, and he was open to anyone who would start in the art world . He received notions of painting and sculpture, in classes that lasted about four hours a day. He completed his studies in 1969. Andres Serrano
soon realized that painting was not the art world who devote their careers. When a partner youprovided a camera for him to do tests with it, he realized the vast possibilities offered this method for altar to realize their relationship with the reality around him. But the start of his career had to wait because with twenty years began to use drugs.
twenty-eight years he managed to leave that way, and began work as assistant artistic director of an advertising company. This experience allowed him to become familiar with photography, and finally adopt it as a means of artistic expression. But contrary to what may seem, Andres Serrano is not considered a photographer to use. He does not want to record reality, but create their own realities and then photographsfiarlas.
the late eighties came to fame, led by a single work, Piss Christ. This photograph that you can see a plastic crucifix in a glass artist's own urine, generated a controversy that placed Serrano in the crosshairs of U.S. public opinion.
Since then, his work has not been without controversy and has had several problems with the most ultra-conservative politicians and sociales.Andres Serrano now lives in New York, in company with Luther, a Dalmatian. It is dedicated to the collection of religious art from the XVI and XVII. From time to time enter partnerships in the New York Times Magazine.
Given these brief but necwood, 125.7 x 152.4 cm, framed 139.1 x 165.7 cm.
Heaven & Hell, 1984.
Cibachrome, silicone, plexiglass, wood frame, 101.6 x 152.4 cm framed 114.6 x 167 cm.
Edition AP 1 / 2. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Piss Christ, 1987.
Cibachrome, silicone, plexiglass, wood frame, 69.9 x 101.6 cm, framed 83.2 x 114.3 cm. Test
artist. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
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