Barnaby Furnas - Contemporary Artists

Duel

Barnaby Furnas, Duel   The Saatchi Gallery
 

Barnaby Furnas

Duel

2004, oil on canvas

325 x 193cm

Barnaby Furnas uses watercolour in a way it was never meant for: rivalling media sensation for the limelight of graphic seduction. Developing his own subversive world of cartoon ultra-violence, bizarrely populated by rock stars and Honest Abe look-a-likes, Furnas uses blood and guts as a means to flirt with abstraction and design. In Duel, two ex-presidents blow each other to shreds, simply for the sake of seeing the beauty of the carnage in slow motion.

 
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