VOLTA NY, New York
7-10 March 2013
Vane presents Jock Mooney at VOLTA NY art fair, New York, USA.
Jock Mooney constructs a carnivalesque horror show that raises a distorted mirror to the modern world, one populated by grotesque, morphed effigies of historical, mythical and religious figures and weird animals. Informed by both high and low culture – from pop art, underground comic books and manga, to pastoral landscapes, Japanese prints and nursery rhymes – all Mooney’s work shares the same imaginative manipulation of materials, intensity of labour and quirky outlook that is equally disturbing and endearing.
His pen and ink drawings are visions of apocalypse. Examined closely, we see the distorted skulls, figures and landscapes are composed of tiny fingers and hands – stretched out in apparent supplication.
Fascinated by the ways in which societies visually memorialise death, Mooney’s own collaged wreaths consist of hand drawn and coloured images, cut from card. Dismembered body parts and the debris of everyday life, swirl in a vortex, acting as both momento mori and doorways into some terrible void.
His objects are exquisitely sculpted from plastic modelling clay and hand painted in high gloss. With their exaggerated features, they wave a satirical finger at the traditional sculptural portraits and icons of high art, as well as the ceramic ornaments lovingly arrayed in glass-fronted cabinets in domestic parlours.
82MERCER
76 Mercer Street
New York
NY 10012
USA
www.voltaartfairs.com/new-york
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