The Story
Size:21 x 16 in.
The Classics III is a 17" x 12" mixed media composition that continues The Connor Brothersā distinctive dialogue between nostalgia and contemporary critique. A row of worn paperback spines forms the central structure of the piece, their faded typography and frayed edges evoking the tactile familiarity of second-hand literature. Yet the titles that run along them subvert expectation: sardonic, self-aware and often darkly comic, they read like distilled fragments of a modern psyche ā āBe Yourself Everyone Else Is Takenā, āI Drink Therefore I Canā, āEvery Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner Has A Futureā. These invented book titles turn the language of pulp fiction into a commentary on identity, self-destruction, and the search for meaning in an age of performative truth.
Around the books, the artists deliberately leave traces of process: pencil notes, coffee stains, and faint sketch lines that resist polish, reminding the viewer that the artwork is an object in progress rather than a sealed fiction. One handwritten line, āSometimes itās not about a happy ending. Sometimes itās about the storyā, acts almost as a key to the work ā a quiet acknowledgement of lifeās unresolved narratives.
The Connor Brothers, the creative partnership of Mike Snelle and James Golding, emerged from a fabricated biography designed to challenge the art worldās appetite for myth. Their practice continues to dismantle certainty, using humour, appropriation and retro visual language to probe the shifting border between truth and invention.Ā
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Size:21 x 16 in.
The Classics III is a 17" x 12" mixed media composition that continues The Connor Brothersā distinctive dialogue between nostalgia and contemporary critique. A row of worn paperback spines forms the central structure of the piece, their faded typography and frayed edges evoking the tactile familiarity of second-hand literature. Yet the titles that run along them subvert expectation: sardonic, self-aware and often darkly comic, they read like distilled fragments of a modern psyche ā āBe Yourself Everyone Else Is Takenā, āI Drink Therefore I Canā, āEvery Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner Has A Futureā. These invented book titles turn the language of pulp fiction into a commentary on identity, self-destruction, and the search for meaning in an age of performative truth.
Around the books, the artists deliberately leave traces of process: pencil notes, coffee stains, and faint sketch lines that resist polish, reminding the viewer that the artwork is an object in progress rather than a sealed fiction. One handwritten line, āSometimes itās not about a happy ending. Sometimes itās about the storyā, acts almost as a key to the work ā a quiet acknowledgement of lifeās unresolved narratives.
The Connor Brothers, the creative partnership of Mike Snelle and James Golding, emerged from a fabricated biography designed to challenge the art worldās appetite for myth. Their practice continues to dismantle certainty, using humour, appropriation and retro visual language to probe the shifting border between truth and invention.Ā
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