A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XVII

1. Unknown (X-MEN)
2. Cary Kwok Pop In The Eye, 2013
3. Unknown (Disney)
4. Unknown
5. Raymond Pettibon Unknown
6. Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring/Summer 2008
7. John Wesley Woman On Top (detail), 1996
8. John Wesley Untitled (Woman With Glasses, detail), 2004

Sex metaphors within comic. Usually a pastiche or web manipulation, the signals of intercourse via flat colour fields are a recurring fantasy in a seemingly forbidden, sexually neutral, non-physical, hypothetic and pre-adulthood cultural context. Sex in comic is another last taboo.
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The Intertext Of Hedi Slimane

1. Raymond Pettibon Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
2. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
3. John Baldessari Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
4. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014

The artists Slimane chooses and the symbols their invitation artworks depict imply a crossing of meaning. Comic-like figures with disturbing, poetic and ambiguous undertone? The anti-authoritarian spirit of youth? Pettibon! Menswear! The appropriation of the found image as art practice? Endless repetition with subtle changes? Baldessari! Womenswear! 9 classic jackets over sparkly dresses...
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XIII

1. Raymond Pettibon No Title, 1987
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014
1. Raymond Pettibon No Title (Entering Marlboro County), 2005
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014
1. Raymond Pettibon To Wit, 2013
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014

The quick stroke. Who does not love the gentleness, the warmth and promptness of a gestural moment. The strong and intense handcraft of Raymond Pettibon. Expressing everything within the rapid act of expressive self-unloading. The collection artwork of no editions. Big, raw brushstrokes, applied within a few seconds.
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