David Shrigley
Fucking Ace
2018
Screenprint in colours on paper
76 × 56 cm
Location: London, United Kingdom
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About the artwork
Appearing as a central black spade motif reminiscent of a playing card against a stark white background, the composition features hand-rendered white lettering spelling out a colloquial phrase down its vertical axis. The imagery subverts traditional iconography associated with gaming and fortune by integrating deadpan vernacular language into a graphic template. Produced as an eight-color screenprint on heavy-weight textured paper, the visual structure relies on high contrast and deliberately unpolished draftsmanship to underscore its satirical tone.
Expert opinion
The output aligns with a lineage of conceptual art and satirical illustration that utilizes low-fi aesthetics to critique high art conventions and mundane social interactions. Within the contemporary print market, editions by the artist maintain steady demand due to their accessible scale and recognizable visual signature.
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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