- Venue: Jonathan Levine Gallery
- Official: jonathanlevinegallery.com
Description:
For The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Baseman taps into the idthe part of the psyche which contains our primitive impulses such as sex, anger, and hunger. Influenced by “The Garden of Earthly Delights” a renaissance masterpiece by Hieronymous Bosch, Baseman delves deeper into the “pleasure principle” introducing us to little demons and devils that act out our most suppressed impulses and desires. One such demon is Hotchachacha. Bosch’s work has always been a source of inspiration for Baseman. For his first New York Times Book Review Cover, he created a detail of a flower protruding from a man’s rear end, which drew criticism from the Book Review’s art director. The main painting for this exhibition is a diptych that recalls the story, this time with a devil.
Gary Baseman straddles the worlds of fine art and commerce, creating what he calls “Pervasive Art.” Pervasive artists, he believes, use both the channels of mass media TV, Film, Print, and fine art art galleries and museums to infiltrate contemporary life. Baseman continues to blur the lines of fine art and pop culture by creating a limited edition vinyl figure of Hotchachachaa little devil that deflowers angels by stealing their haloswhich will be offered at a later date.
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