RT4A Conservatism kills

Conservatism kills

2022
Ash, graphite powder and primers on linen canvas
41 x 75 x 24 cm
RT4A2212
Courtesy of the artist


Three commercially prepared canvases are joined into a triptych. Conservatism kills borrows the warning format of cigarette packaging. A political statement enters lettering already familiar as a public instruction.

Five types of primer work the joined canvases. Cigarette ash and graphite powder, fixed with transparent acrylic medium, form the inscription. The warning brings material from smoking into the words that replace it.

Black and white, Helvetica and the triptych give the statement an orderly construction. The demand for change has taken a conventional form.


Index