Hew Locke - Lot 106

Hew Locke How do you want me ? 48 pages, paperback, dust jacket Numbered 59 from an edition of 285 + current edition "L'art en écrit", 2009. Editions Janninck Format: 125 x 210 mm A different cockade is included for each copy. Note: Having grown up in Guyana, a former British colony in Latin America, Hew Locke (b. 1959 in Edinburgh, currently lives and works in London) translates the tension between contemporary British society and its colonial past in works composed of an assemblage of heterogeneous objects - plastic children's weapons, pearl necklaces, fake diamonds, dolls, etc. Hew Locke's work is regularly exhibited in the UK and abroad. His work is regularly exhibited in England and abroad: Victoria and Albert Museum in 2000, Chisenhale Gallery in 2002, Tate Britain and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (USA) in 2004, CRAC Alsace in 2005, Valencia Biennial in Spain in 2006, Henry Moore Institute in 2007, Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009. They feature in numerous collections, including those of the Tate, Arts Council of England, Brooklyn Museum, Eileen and Peter Norton, Government Art Collection and Arnold Lehman. In this book of illustrated writings, Hew Locke explores the links between personal identity and national identity. He adopts the colorful, offbeat dress codes of characters from his childhood or from Brixton, the capital of England's Caribbean community. Hew Locke stages himself, "fascinated by the idea of a kind of messed-up beauty", in a gallery of sinister characters, corrupt kings, tyrants and bandits - Lord of the Dance, Harbinger, Congo Man, etc. - creating his own extravagant universe. - creating his own extravagant universe within conservative English society. "I've invented my own culture. It's my production, it's authentic and it's invented, it's real and it's fake. It's the great product, the real deal." The first edition comes with a different roundel for each copy.