David Shrigley UK Retrospective
The first major UK retrospective of David Shrigley’s work is due to hit the Hayward Gallery next year.
Best known for his cartoon strips in Weekend magazine Shrigley has gained a name for himself for his dead pan approach to humour and the new exhibition will contain a full range of his different works from drawings and photographs to books, sculptures, paintings and animations.
Showing more than 175 works the exhibition will open in February and run through to May and will contain many works that have never been seen before. Included in the works on display will be a stuffed dog sculpture displayed alongside a placard that reads, ‘I am dead’ and a ceramic bomb.
Speaking of the exhibition the curator Cliff Lauson said, ‘The foundation of David’s work is his fantastic, brilliant sense of humour. I have been laughing since I started working on the show – it will definitely be an enjoyable exhibition experience… He is part of a tradition of artists who haven’t taken art so seriously, going back to Marcel Duchamp. He is almost like a more playful surrealist. There is a constant return to the disjunction between image and text: Magritte is one of his artistic heroes.’
