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Every time I think of him I am happy

David Shrigley

Every time I think of him I am happy

2023

Screenprint in colours on paper

76 × 56 cm

Ed. / 125 — Signed and numbered verso

Location: London, United Kingdom

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About the artwork

Created in 2023,Every time I think of him I am happy presents a blue elephant-like figure carrying a tender,unguarded statement. The spare composition,flat color and irregular line keep the image immediately legible while the caption shifts its emotional register. Humour emerges from the gap between the apparent simplicity of the statement and the more ambiguous behavior or feeling suggested by the figure. The stated technique is screenprint in colors on paper. It measures approximately 76 × 56 cm. Text and figure are isolated against the unprinted ground,so neither functions as a conventional caption or illustration. The screenprinted color remains flat and direct,preserving the uneven edges and apparent spontaneity of the original drawing while giving the edition a clear graphic presence.

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This work is characteristic of Shrigley’s use of a direct caption to destabilize a deliberately simple image. The unguarded sentence gives the eccentric animal an unexpected emotional tenderness. Its apparent accessibility is important to the work: the joke arrives quickly,but its emotional implications remain open after the initial reading. Across David Shrigley’s broader output,Every time I think of him I am happy is notable because it condenses everyday emotion into an accessible image-text encounter whose humor remains psychologically open.

About the artist

David Shrigley is a British artist born in 1968. He studied design and environmental art at the Glasgow School of Arts. His work is characterized by a simplistic, childlike style, with trivial, banal themes always accompanied by a humorous phrase. Although his works are often reminiscent of children's drawings, they are nonetheless charged with humor and lucidity. David Shrigley often uses art as a way of demonstrating his political commitment, particularly to environmental causes. He has published in the English newspaper The Guardian since 2005 and is now an Instagram star, with over a million followers. In 2013, he was nominated for the Turner Prize, awarded by Tate Britain to a contemporary artist. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide (K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, Anton Kern Gallery in New York...) and is present in the collections of MoMa, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Tate.

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