ITEM NO: 20006 SIZE: Each sign - 2 in x 1.5 in / 5.08cm x 4cm MATERIAL: Printed static cling plastic EDITION: open edition US$50.00 Quantity 4 miniature static cling store signs While working for the Daily Telegraph, Oxford graduate Adam McEwen, 41, compiled obituaries for living figures-a job he later exploited in his first solo at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. There, in a show none-too-subtly titled 'History is a Perpetual Virgin endlessly and repeatedly Deflowered by successive generations of Fucking Liars,' McEwen exhibited 'obits' of Bill Clinton, Nicole Kidman, and Jeff Koons, offering a funny, morbid take on celebrity obsession. These bewildering works highlight our society's involvement with celebrity by abruptly truncating lives still in progress, as well as part of our own culture. As is usually the case with this British artist's work, the stimuli that lurk beneath the surface of the work are familiar, everyday elements. His primary mode of operation is the thwarting of expectations known in art circles as intervention.

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