Born 1966
Lives London
Fata Morgana
2008
Acrylic and collage on canvas
250x335x3cm
Courtesy the Estate of Angus Fairhurst and Sadie Coles HQ
Young British artist Angus Fairhurst’s droll Conceptual projects included a band with an ever-changing line-up called Abandon-Abandon and the audio sculpture Gallery Connections (1991–6), in which he networked together the telephones of London’s leading art dealers. He often explored ideas of consciousness and masculinity, notably in A Couple of Differences between Thinking and Feeling II (2003), a bronze sculpture of a gorilla contemplating his severed arm. For the installation One Year of the News (2004) he copied and superimposed layers of newspapers as a means of ‘taking away their power lead as an information carrier’. This theme expanded in recent paintings such as Fata Morgana (2008), which incorporates an image of a model from an advertising hoarding, her face obscured. (SL)
