pure evil artworks
To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.
Pure Evils ancestry is alleged to include eight saints: Vladimir the Great, Saint Anna of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, Saint Stephen of Hungary, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Mathilde together with Saint Thomas More, Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families.He is also a descendant of the Old English Chieftain Ailric, Kings Thane to Edward the Confessor, who held Cawthorne and much of South Yorkshire before the Conquest.
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Richard Burton's Nightmare 2
Available from The Saatchi Gallery
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Carlo Ponti's Nightmare
100 x 100cm
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
http://www.saatchigallery.com/pureevil/
The party / live screen print event for the Pure Evil Show at The Saatchi Gallery is on Tuesday 18th February 7pm -9.30pm
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Pure Evil @ The Saatchi Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings, prints and hand finished one offs
One day I received an email from Dafen, a copy village in Guangdong province, China. The email contained an extensive list of a thumbnails of different paintings they could reproduce for me from every famous artist in history.
Andy Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a Jackie, a Liz and an Electric Chair. His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images, send as 64 x 64 pixel format thumbnails. I believe we are living in a culture of the thumbnail where we usually encounter art for the first time as a tiny square on a computer screen, on tumblr or instagram, and we are facing a digital deluge of 1000’s of images daily we can select and filter . If Warhol was living today I think he would have found it all as fascinating and inspiring as I do.
The starting point for my series of Nightmare paintings were these 3 Warhol images . I began with an image of Liz Taylor ‘s hair from a Warhol painting, and mixed it up with an image of a girl I found on Myspace who dressed as a ghoulish playboy bunny one haloween . Liz died a few months later and the series gained momentum and has grown from there.
With the ’Nightmare Series’ I am making myself a kind of 'copy village' celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.
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Jean Michel Basquiat's Nightmare
Stencil Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
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Andy Warhol's Nightmare
Stencil Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
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Keith Haring's Nightmare
Stencil Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
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Circle Painting
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New Logo for the Hackney Looting Team
SOLD
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You Can't Buy Happiness, Steal T
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Infinite blue neon bunny tag
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Infinite white neon butterfly
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Infinite red neon bunny tag
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Jack Johnson
Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
SOLD
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Jesse Owens
Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
SOLD
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Sir Thomas More
Spraypaint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Pure Evil on Les Paul Guitar
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Corriere della serra
Collaged antique newspaper cuttings, spray paint, solvite and glitter on canvas
100x 100cm
SOLD
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Prince Philip's Nightmare ( golden jubilee )
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Prince Philip's Nightmare ( silver jubilee )
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Prince Philip's Nightmare 1
76 x 76cm
stencil spray paint on canvas
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Prince Philip's Nightmare ( small island 2 )
76 x 76cm
stencil spray paint on canvas
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Frank Sinatra's Nightmare 1 2 + 3
75 x 75cm
stencil spray paint on canvas
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End of an Assassin
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Tragic Jackie
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Elvis Presleys Nightmare
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The picture that wrecked her marriage
Collaged antique newspaper cuttings, spray paint, solvite and glitter on canvas
100x 100cm
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The Sex Machine
Collaged antique newspaper cuttings, spray paint, solvite and glitter on canvas
100x 100cm
POA
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Roman Polanskis Nightmare
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Arthur Millers Nightmare 3 shades of grey
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Pure Evil / Martin Whatson no.9
spray paint on canvas
100 x 100cm
2013
SOLD
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Pure Evil / Martin Whatson no.8
spray paint on canvas
100 x 100cm
2013
SOLD
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Pure Evil / Martin Whatson
spray paint on canvas
100 x 100cm
2013
SOLD
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Pure Evil / Martin Whatson no.3
spray paint on canvas
100 x 100cm
2013
SOLD
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Pure Evil / Martin Whatson no.1
spray paint on canvas
100 x 100cm
2013
SOLD
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Brigitte Bardot
75 x 75cm
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Jean Luc-Godard's Nightmare
75 x 75cm
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Artwork from the Hoxton Hotel Exhibition
Live East Die Young on glass
spray paint and screenprint on toughened glass
£200
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double exposure canvas
spray paint on canvas
75 x 75cm
2013
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Infinite neon DIE with double bunnytag
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Infinite Line of Coke at Bonhams
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COKE = Pure Evil
Infinite neon box
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Infinite Neon bunny tag
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Infinite neon butterfly
Recent sales at Artcurial auction, Paris :
PURE EVIL (né en 1968)
INFINITE NEON BUTTERFLY
2012 Néon américain, miroir infini, système électrique et transformateur signé et daté au dos h: 70,50 w: 80,80 d: 8,60 cm
Un certificat d'authenticité de l'artiste sera remis à l'acquéreur
Estimation 3 000 - 3 500 €
Sold for 7,079 €
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double exposure paintings
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Eric Fok's Nightmare
Paintings for TRAIBLAZERS show in Hong Kong (see news section)
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Marlene Dali with black glitter moustache
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Mel Ferrer's Nightmare
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Roman Polanski's Nightmare
stencil spray paint on canvas £1500
100 x 100 cm
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deconstructed nightmare (#2)
The completed 'deconstructed nightmare (#2)' painting is for a charity auction organised by Black Rat Projects as part of the Bonhams auction in LA in October
Its 100 x 100cm, and will come with 2 coloured drips and 2 coloured blobs that sit on the ground below the painting
The 2 ladies are Sofia Loren and Claudia Littmann
Each one of the 'deconstructed nightmare' paintings is an original painting on canvas made with 6 layered stencils
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deconstructed nightmare (#3)
The completed 'deconstructed nightmare (#2)' painting is 75 x 75cm, and has 1 coloured drip and 1 coloured blob that sits on the ground below the painting
The 2 ladies are Sofia Loren and Sharon Tate
Each one of the 'deconstructed nightmare' paintings is an original canvas made with 6 different spray painted layers of stencils
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deconstructed nightmare (#1)
The completed 'deconstructed nightmare (#1)' painting is 100 x 100cm, and comes with 2 coloured drips and 2 coloured blobs that sit on the ground below the painting
The 2 ladies are Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe
Each one of the 'deconstructed nightmare' paintings is an original canvas made with 6 different spray painted layers of stencils
This was originally intended to be gifted to Radiohead at their concert in Toronto this year, but the concert was cancelled after a tragic stage collapse at the gig.
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Nightmare series Canvases
DAVID BAILEYS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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DAVID LYNCHS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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ROGER VADIMS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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RICHARD BURTONS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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WARREN BEATTY'S' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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SAM SHEPARDS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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CHARLIE BROWNS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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J.F.K' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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Nightmare series Canvases
VINCENT CASSELS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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RICHARD BURTONS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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MICK JAGGERS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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HUMPHREY BOGARTS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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Nightmare series Canvases
J.F.KS' NIGHTMARE CANVAS
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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PURE EVILS NIGHTMARE CANVAS
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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SERGE GAINSBOURGS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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CARLO PONTIS' NIGHTMARE
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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Carlo Ponti's Nightmare
stencil spray paint on canvas
75 x 75 cm
£1000
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J.F.K's nightmare
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Marlene Dali
stencil on canvas with black glitter moustache 75 x 75cm request information about this piece
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vincent cassel's nightmare #1
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carlo ponti's nightmare
stencil spray paint on canvas
75 x 75cm
£1000
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raja ravats nightmare
stencil spray paint on canvas
75 x 75cm
£1000
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david lynch's nightmare
stencil spray paint on canvas
75 x 75cm
£1000
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Pure Evil etched metal
Pure Evil on the ruins of the bank of England
60 x 41 cm
£999
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Pure Evil etched metal
Pearly king in Highgate cemetery
60 x 41 cm
£999
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Charles Darwin Monkey Boy
made for pure evil @ pure evil gallery show
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Victorian reverse stencil on glass
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Death Planet/The American/Darth Typewriter Lightbox
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Live East Die Young Canvas
Gloss paint and rolled gold 50 x 50 £450
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fun at the zoo - daytime
made for pure evil solo show @ pure evil gallery
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Li Tobler
Spray Paint & emulsion 100 x 130 £1800 SOLD
request information about this piece (1948 – 19 May 1975) was a Swiss stage actress. She is best known as model to several of H. R. Giger's works (including his famous Li paintings), as well as for being his life partner up until her suicide in 1975. Not much is known of Li Tobler's early life. She was born in Switzerland in 1948. In 1966, she met surrealist artist H. R. Giger while she was studying acting in K. Rellstab's drama studio in Zürich. According to Giger, she had "an enormous vitality and a great appetite for life" and wished her life to be "short and intense". Tobler was living in a very small and unclean apartment with her then boyfriend, actor Paul Weibel, a friend of Giger. Giger, having only graduated from the School of Arts and working as a designer, made the proposal to move in with them, which they promptly accepted. Tobler, Giger and Weibel, in terrible economic condition, shared the apartment in the following months, despite its numerous inconveniences. After Weibel left abroad for professional reasons, the friendship between Tobler and Giger gradually developed into a romance. The relationship of the couple was reportedly tumultuous, and involved promiscuity from both partners, as well as frequent use of drugs. On one occasion, Tobler failed to appear at the house and Giger, on the brink of terror, started frantically looking for her in highways. Eventually, he received a phone call by Tobler, three days later, who informed him that she had to make a trip of extreme urgency (probably with another boyfriend of hers, as remarked by Giger years later). According to the painter, "as of that moment she did, more or less, what she wanted". Depression and suicide: 1971-1975 In 1971, Giger and Tobler visited director Fredi M. Murer in London. Murer filmed a TV documentary, entitled Passagen (1972), about Giger's work. The documentary also featured interviews by both Giger and Tobler. In the 1972-1973 season, Tobler gained a part in the play My woman, my leader, and had to travel all around Switzerland. Physically and mentally exhausted after 130 performances of the play, weary after the hectic schedule that required extensive tour around the country and confused by her promiscuous erotic life, Tobler decided to take a leave of absence from the acting profession, as well as from her relationship with Giger. In 1974, she opted for leaving him and moving to San Francisco with her new American boyfriend. However, 30 days later, she returned to Zürich, claiming to be disappointed over the United States and resuming her relationship with the painter. Following this incident, Tobler started becoming heavily depressed. In sharp contrast to Giger, who was undergoing one of his most energetic artistic periods, Tobler was gradually dissolving in depression and apathy. Giger's energy only seemed to depress her more. She started contemplating suicide. One of her friends, Jörg Stummer, advised her to open her own gallery, as a means of becoming active again. Her gallery presented several modern artists, including works by Manon, Walter Pfeiffer and Jürgen Klauke. At her last exhibition, entitled Schuhwerke (German for Shoe Works), the guests were invited to appear wearing bizarre shoe creations. Giger filmed the guests while wearing a pair of "shoes" hollowed out of fresh loaves of bread. Despite Tobler's initial enthusiasm with her new project, after a short period of creative stir, she fell into a lethargic state and ended her life with a bullet at the age of 27, on Whit Monday 1975.
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Sylvette David
Emulsion 162 x 105 £2000 SOLD
request information about this piece Pablo Picasso met Sylvette David a woman who worked in a pottery studio not far from his studio in Vallauris, in the spring 1953. The attraction, which a face like Sylvette's had for Picasso's sensuality, motivated him to paint. Sylvette's portrait from May 2, 1954 is one of the last of a long series. It is believed that she is also the subject of the monumental Chicago Picasso. She was said to have been an inspiration for actress Brigitte Bardot and the Roger Vadim film And God Created Woman.
