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The Elvis-Picasso Gallery is a somewhat schizophrenic entity. On the one hand it is a vehicle for mind-boggling discourse, on the other, it represents a desperate realization that everything is simply meaningless - of no value - screaming for justice from one perspective, lost in an anarchistic and anti-theistic intellectual construct, from another. It is both absurdly real and brutally surreal!
The Elvis-Picasso Gallery is a platform for art that observes, considers, evaluates and represents the human condition, the condition in particular of the disenfranchised, alienated, exploited and deprived, the threatened cultures, communities and people - us...and for an art which seeks to expose the bullies, thugs, liars and hypocrites who perpetrate and maintain the culture of violence. It is all that Elvis-Picasso himself has promoted during his extraordinary career.
The Elvis-Picasso Gallery, like all of humanity, is concurrently, standing in the grim, or perhaps even hillarious, reality of immanent self-administered human implosion; it is the only place left for having a last laugh, a surreal celebration as the ship of fools sails ever so smugly into the abyss.
The works presented in this gallery, located just off King Street, in the Ville de Nulle Parts, which have astounded critics across the globe, are freely available for for use for non-commercial purposes, conditional of course to the provision that the Elvis-Picasso Gallery and/or, in relevant cases the artists themselves, are clearly acknowledged as creators of the work. The copyrights of the site, the concept and the 'trademark', 'elvis-picasso', are strictly reserved. All contradictions are protected and will be defended at great expense in the highest courts of the 'Ville de n'Importe Où'!
The works exhibited generally all take the shape of a poster. In the minds of many of the cognoscenti, literati, intelligensia and some very common people, this is perhaps a less valuable form of artistic expression, but however, it is succinctly argued and irrefutably demonstrated in this gallery, its collections and artists, in meaningful deconstructions and valueable grand narratives, as well as through the most profound very-post-modern critical concepts and commodities, that function follows form - that this is a potent device. "Oh my God!", exclaimed the spectator, "Could they be raving mad?!" Contributions in the form of visual ideas, simple concepts or text and copy (as in headline, caption, etc.) are invited and very welcome. Please communicate with us - no one has so far, no one may ever, for that matter! We wonder if we exist at all sometimes! "Why bother?", and other existential queries may never be answered!
A newsletter featuring each new creation will follow soon; as will free gifts and discounts for the needy, the battered and the poor.
Mary Either, Gallery Director |
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