Art Metropole

#03855

Dave Allen: song drawings / paintings 1996 - 2005 (Bootleg Series #4)

Artist

Dave Allen

Price

$40.00

Date

2008

Publisher

Secession

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

ISBN

978-3-902592-10-1

Size

17 × 22 cm

Length

48 

Genre

Art Metropole Edition

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Dave Allen – Canon to the Hammer of the Gods” at Secession (Vienna) in which Dave Allen addresses on several different levels the phenomenon of myth creation and society’s approach to it. Using a form of sampling and mixing that is reminiscent of musical methods, Allen is able to interweave different (historical) themes in free association, and to thereby create a new and unusual narrative line connecting the history of Secession, legendary drummer Cozy Powell (among others, a member of the hard rock bands Black Sabbath and Whitesnake) and the Nordic legend of Thor, the god of thunder.

Includes an essay by Raimer Stange.