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Get Your Revolver Out Joyce, 1988. Acrylic on canvas. 184 × 182 cm (72 1/2 × 71 5/8 in).
♠ PROVENANCE Friedman Guiness Gallery, Frankfurt Private Collection, London EXHIBITED Frankfurt am Main, Friedman-Guiness Gallery, Life Isn’t Good, It’s Excellent, 1989 New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, David Robilliard (1952–1988), 13 September– 6 October 1990 London, Royal Festival Hall, Life Isn’t Good, It’s Excellent, 1992 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, A Roomful of Hungry Looks, April–June 1993 Dublin Royal Hibernian Academy, Joyce in Art, 2004 LITERATURE M. Bloem, ed., David Robilliard: A Roomful of Hungry Looks, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 59 (illustrated) Poet and painter David Robilliard’s intoxicating combination of words and images make for a unique vitality and freshness. The art historian and curator Rudi Fuchs has described Robilliard’s style as “want[ing] to express his feelings succinctly and … not to hide behind style or grace, and [his sparingly] drawn pictures give a witty yet serious life to the words and phrases they carry and the words make the pictures sharp.” Of his use of the name Joyce in this particular work, gallerist Sebastian Guinness has stated that “David definitely had a relationship with the works of James Joyce, however, as with all Robilliard paintings there is a very London gay pun … Joyce being a reference to Joyce Grenfell and a host of other iconic figures from the post-war gay scene. This was about the art of vocabulary and the malleable quality of language, something that he found in Joyce’s Ulysses and Thomas Pynchon. We should remember that his medium was poetry” (Freidman Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, 2003). ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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