Meat After Meat Show

"By putting these artists together, the exhibition seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation."

Animatronic Flesh Shoe,

Adam Brandejs

Still from My New York, 2002

Zhang Huan.

21 Chops, 2003

Acrylic on canvas

David Raymond

Hommage a Meret Oppenheim

Betty Hirst

Betty Hirst, Book, 2008, meat sculpture, 7" x 10" x 2"

(via meatpaper)

Mark Ryden

Can't wait to see his stuff when I'm back in the city!

Upon first glance Ryden’s work seems to mirror the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious and collective memories. However, Ryden transcends the initial Surrealists’ strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation. His dewy vixens, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religious emblems, primordial landscapes and slabs of meat challenge his audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing cultural familiarity into unsettling circumstances.

From his Meat Series...

The largest of the paintings, "The Tree of Life," (below)

sold for $800,000 before the exhibit opened.

Other notable work...

(via Mark Ryden)

meatropolis

(via meatpaper)

WAGWAN NAWGAW

and, AH...

I will be starting a painting series based around meat - semi-nude/nude beings - personal belonging of the beings - in an interior setting. Not a solid concept but surely, something will give in the process.

Some inspiring images that makes my insides tickle, everytime I look at them...

Francis Bacon

Figure with Meat, 1952

Oil on Canvas

Rembrandt.

The Rabbi c. 1664.

Oil on Canvas

Francis Bacon - for the love of meat

Rembrandt.

The Slaughtered Ox. c. 1638.

Oil on panel