About The Work
This highly unusual piece from filmmaker and artist John Waters is characteristic of his penchant for flamboyance, violence and kitsch. Made from acrylic, synthetic blonde hair, and painted silicone, Tragedy is reminiscent of a character from one of Waters’ wild cult films, such as Hairspray. An homage to the death of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, the piece evokes a serial killers’ trophy or a beauty-queen catfight gone-wrong. Dubbed the “Pope of Trash,” Waters has made his career on rebelling against the “tyranny of good taste” with delightful glee.
About John Waters
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Sculpture
Acrylic, synthetic hair, painted silicone, urethane
18.00 x 18.00 x 5.00 in
45.7 x 45.7 x 12.7 cm
This work comes with a signed and numbered certificate.
About The Work
This highly unusual piece from filmmaker and artist John Waters is characteristic of his penchant for flamboyance, violence and kitsch. Made from acrylic, synthetic blonde hair, and painted silicone, Tragedy is reminiscent of a character from one of Waters’ wild cult films, such as Hairspray. An homage to the death of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, the piece evokes a serial killers’ trophy or a beauty-queen catfight gone-wrong. Dubbed the “Pope of Trash,” Waters has made his career on rebelling against the “tyranny of good taste” with delightful glee.
About John Waters
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Ross Craig – 'There’s a sort of affirmation when someone picks your image. It’s not just me that likes it, it’s other people'
- Interviews & Features: From Sing Sing to Senior Citizens: How Artists Matt Starr and Ellie Sachs Use Art to Create A More Vibrant Democracy
- Interviews & Features: Pipilotti Rist Wants You to Spit on Your Mobile Phone: A Q&A With the Ecstatic Hippie Feminist Artist
- Art 101: How Nan Goldin's Snapshots of Sex, Drugs, and Death Redefined Photography
- News & Events: Funny Strange or Funny Ha Ha? 11 Works of Concrete Comedy
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