Kendall Geers, F**kFace. © the artist
Undaunted by the brickbats that greeted its last major exhibition of the popular roly poly paintings of Beryl Cook, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead is following up with an exhibition by shock-artist Kendell Geers.
The first major solo UK exhibition of the South African artist opens on Friday September 21 2007 and will include over 20 of Geers' works consisting of wall paintings, a selection of painted ready-mades, neon sculptures and video work.
Drawing heavily on the worlds of violence, sex, death and trauma Geers' art plays with the viewer’s repulsion whilst ridiculing racial or religious stereotypes.
Visitors to the gallery will be treated to works such as F**kFace, which features the skull of an executed man with a bullet hole behind the ear and the wall painting PostPopF**k 31 comprising an ornamental pattern that, once deciphered, spells out a rude four letter word.
“I’m always looking for the limits when I find them I try to collapse them and then I start again,” says Geers. “We understand ourselves and our world through limits such as morality and social etiquette.”
Gallery goers, you have been warned.
