Cross (after Goya)
'Cross' (after Goya)
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Installation
Year of Work: 2004
Media: installation
Size: 60" x 36"
£4,500. This work is more an assemblage of 12" square still life paintings, placed into the construction of a Cross. It is a Gollonesque homage to Goya. Francisco Goya changed the course of still life history by being among the first to paint game or fish without any culinary implemements. Thus making the images more like a mute accusation of murder. Gollon has taken this a stage further, and placed his still life, the salmon in various states of freshness or decay, into the shape of the Cross. Gollon uses one of his magnifying circles on one of the images, about where the Centurion's lance would have pierced Christ's side.
This work is available from IAP Fine Art, London.
