| David Shrigley Untitled (Mick’s costume), 1998 |
| Drawing | Marker pen on paper |
| 24 x 21 cm |
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| The drawings “Untitled (Today I will paint – “Ugly little man in an ugly mood”)” and “Untitled (Mick’s costume)” are from 1998, and both from the series of drawings David Shrigley did around the book “To make meringue you must beat the egg whites until they look like this”; produced by Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. The black and white, text-based, pen and ink drawings are typical of David Shrigley’s work. They present a dark humour and disillusioned anxiety. An anxiety that may make you laugh, but possibly also haunt you with questions of what is good and what is bad. The drawings are not done to guide you out of evil thought, they do not raise your spirit or hopes, nor do they present a better or more positive view of the world, instead they may make the viewer and reader think about our condition as human beings. Jacob Fabricius |
