INHUMATION NO.1 by Joseph Fox

Print, modified from an 18th century original

63 x 88 cm

59.4 x 84.1 cm

£700

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Artist Statement

My work consists largely of unusual or subversive versions of classical architectural drawings, some totally original, some modified from antique prints. I’m just beginning to launch my art career, having built up a large back catalogue of work privately over the past few years. Last month, in my very first application for public consideration, I won a commendation in the Archisource Drawing of the Year competition.

I submit here for your consideration a series of three prints. They are all modifications of 18th century original prints depicting early archaeological digs unearthing Roman and Greek artworks. In my version of these prints, I use the same scenes to depict great contemporary artworks being buried and entombed. Artistically it works as a comment of the ozymandian nature of art – all those great antique ruins were greatly loved and prized and yet got buried at some point – and also on the recent trend towards the cancellation, vandalization, and destruction of artworks for political reasons. One may turn a blind eye to works being destroyed or warehoused today, but what if it was your favourite works? What if it was the true greats of our time? Would it hit the same then?

The fact that this message about the destruction and vandalization of artworks is itself portrayed in the medium of my own graffiting of a classical print gives the piece a nice ironical coinciding.