Robert Longo
"Essentials"
2009
Pigment Print
174.4 - 32 cm
(68.7 - 12.6 in)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 75
In mint condition
Certificate of Authenticity included
The present artwork is an impressive example of Robert Longo's artistic output and assembles seven works as digital prints in a vertical row. The compilation is comprised of Untitled (Pillow from Consulting Room, 1938) 2001, Untitled (Heaven's Hole) 2000, Mike Test (Head of Goya) 2003, Untitled (Ophelia #9) 2002, Untitled (Saturn) 2006, Untitled (Cassandra) 2008 and Untitled (large black shark portrait) 2008. The grayscale composition is balanced by a red rose in the center. Each print represents the constantly recurring themes within the artist's oeuvre such as love, war, beauty, time, and the mystery of the being. The waves, the bombs, and the roses are the metonymies. Robert Longo describes them as all “things that were existing at the moment of their being: a bomb is supposed to explode, a rose … to bloom and a wave … to crash. "They are at the moment of their fulfillment.”
“I think I make art for brave eyes. I don't want to make art that will pat you on the back and tell you everything is going to be okay. I want to make something that's much more confronting. You don't look at it, it looks at you as much as you look at it. Robert Longo

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