Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | August 15, 1950
Education | Brooklyn Museum Art School |
Known for | Photography |
Spouse | Julie Ault (m. 1980, div. unknown) Irina Movmyga (current) |
Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His Piss Christ (1987) is an amber-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He also created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.
Early life
Serrano was born in New York City on August 15, 1950.
Career
He worked as an assistant art director at an advertising firm, before creating his first work in 1983.[3] Photographer Alex Harsley put Serrano's work in his first New York City show at his Fourth Street Photo Gallery.[6]
His work has been exhibited in diverse locations around the world including the
His exhibitions have often inspired angry reactions. On October 5, 2007, his group of photographs called The History of Sex were on display and several were vandalized at an art gallery in
Serrano usually makes large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (51 by 76 cm). He has shot an array of subject matter including portraits of Klansmen, morgue photos, and pictures of burn victims. He went into the New York City Subway with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples. One of these last shows what Adrian Searle of The Guardian described as "a young couple, she with a strap-on dildo, he with a mildly expectant expression."[9]
Many of Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluids in some way—depicting, for example, blood (sometimes
Serrano's series Objects of Desire, from the early 1990s, features close-ups of firearms, photographed at the Slidell, Louisiana home of artist Blake Nelson Boyd. Included is a shot, against a glowing orange background, down the barrel of a loaded .45 revolver (belonging to Boyd's grandfather) that was used by Jonas Mekas for the cover of the April–May–June 2007 Anthology Film Archives catalog.
Critical reception of Serrano's work has been mixed. In a 1989 New York Times review, critic Michael Brenson responded to Serrano's series of
Serrano's work Blood and Semen III is used as the cover of heavy metal band Metallica's album Load, while "Piss and Blood" is used on Reload. Serrano also directed a video for industrial metal group Godflesh, "Crush My Soul".
In 2008, Serrano's piece The Interpretation of Dreams (White Nigger) was selected to participate in The Renaissance Society's group exhibit, "Black Is, Black Ain't".[15]
Serrano adopted the
In 2013, Serrano made a work of art called Sign of the Times by collecting 200 signs from homeless people in New York City, usually paying $20 for each sign. He described the work as "a testimony to the homeless men and women who roam the streets in search of food and shelter. It's also a chronicle of the times we live in."
See also
- Banksy
- Blood Cross
- Cinema of Transgression
- New French Extremity
- Nick Zedd
- Piss Christ
- Shock art
- Transgressive art
References
- ^ ISBN 1558621903.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Andres Serrano – Biography". Rogallery.com. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ^ "Meet the photographer: Andres Serrano". Musee. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ^ "Serano Shoots Cuba". Vice.com. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
- ^ Glicksman, Marlaine. "Alex Harsley: New York's last iconoclast". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Carol Vogel (October 9, 2007). "Gallery Vandals Destroy Photos". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ^ Angelique Chrisafis (April 18, 2011). "Attack on 'blasphemous' art work fires debate on role of religion in France". The Guardian. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ^ a b Searle, Adrian. Negative energy, The Guardian, October 13, 2001. Retrieved February 10, 2008.
- ^ Auction Results: Andres Serrano's Piss Christ
- ^ Brenson, Michael (December 8, 1989). "Andres Serrano: Provocation And Spirituality". The New York Times. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- ^ Schemo, Diana Jean (November 3, 1994). "Endowment Ends Program Helping Individual Artists". The New York Times. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ Brenson, Michael (December 8, 1989). "Andres Serrano: Provocation And Spirituality". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Yaeger, Lynn. "Andres Serrano's 'Shit' Show", The Village Voice, August 26, 2008. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
- ^ Renaissance Society Archived September 10, 2012, at archive.today
- ^ Brutus Faust.com
- ^ Laster, Paul (July 22, 2010). "Andres Serrano Wants to Be a Rock Star". flavorwire. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
- ^ Serrano, Andres.I started buying the signs that homeless use to beg. Here's what happened, The Guardian, December 21, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ^ Brooks, Katherine. Famed Photographer Gives A Face To New York's Homeless Population In 'Residents Of New York', HuffPost, May 15, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
- ^ Ilnytzky, Ulah. Serrano's homeless photos pop up in NYC Archived May 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press, May 23, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
- ^ Sutton, Benjamin. Andres Serrano wants New Yorkers to stop ignoring the homeless, Artnet, May 23, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
External links
- Media related to Andres Serrano at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website