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Bruce Eves
Canada
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16 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Printing : Hybrid on Paper
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 30x41.8in
- Edition : 9 / 10
- Artist's proof : 1
About this artwork
Polari 101 (a &b) Polari was both a weapon and a shield. This anti-language was an amalgam of middle-English, Italian, gypsy and various slangs used by gay men as a means of talking (and plotting) openly against the repressive social atmosphere in the 1950s when the anti-gay pogroms went into overdrive after the Burgess/McClain Soviet spy scandal. In “Polari 101 (a & b)” the Polari words for various body part are strewn across the Farnese Hercules…
– art history’s all-time he-man. The provocation is identical to the strategy employed for LHOOQ – neutralizing our admiration for the Mona Lisa’s aura of greatness by directing our attention toward her base, corporeal desires. As employed here, the aura of the statue is stripped away, reducing him to nothing more than the object of our lustful glances. This work consists of two 76.2 x 55.8 cm photographs printed on acid-free photo paper and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Bruce Eves
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Bruce Eves was the recipient of the Governor-General’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual and Media Arts in 2018 and was the subject of Peter Dudar’s feature-length documentary “Bruce Eves in Polari” that premiered at The Power Plant. Eves was ranked 26th on the Alt-Power100 list compiled by ArtLyst (UK). In the past he was assistant-programming director at the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC) in the late 1970s; and throughout the 1980s was the co-founder and chief archivist of the International Gay History Archive (now housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript division of the New York Public Library). Eves continues an active practice of exhibiting and curating on the cutting-edge, and in recent years has pushed the envelope further by expanding his work to include spoken-word projects performed monthly at the Black Eagle bar’s Dirty Queer Poetry Nights. Eves lives and works in Toronto and seeks representation. His CV can be viewed at www.bruceeves.net
Bruce Eves
Polari 101 (a & b)
$3,370
