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$1,662.50The Story
Size:44 x 33 in.
The Classics XIII is a 39" x 28" original mixed media work by The Connor Brothers, presenting a carefully arranged line of weathered paperback spines, each one printed with a wry, perceptive or subversive title. The books appear aged, their typography echoing mid-century pulp fiction, yet their text feels sharply rooted in the present: “Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Taken”, “Every Saint Has a Past and Every Sinner Has a Future”, “Why Fit In When You Were Born To Stand Out”. These statements, half-wise and half-irreverent, turn the bookshelf into a form of visual philosophy. A light scatter of pigment to the right interrupts the composition, reminding us that even nostalgia is never perfectly neat.
The Connor Brothers – the collective pseudonym of Mike Snelle and James Golding – have built an international reputation on the tension between fact and fiction. Their practice began as an invented biography, a deliberate mask that questioned the very idea of authenticity in contemporary culture. That fascination remains central: their works borrow the language of the familiar, then twist it into something both humorous and unsettling.
In The Classics XIII, literature becomes a mirror for modern anxieties and contradictions. What looks like a library becomes a portrait of human behaviour, filtered through irony, longing and wit – an invitation to question how much of what we accept as truth is simply a story we like the sound of.
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Size:44 x 33 in.
The Classics XIII is a 39" x 28" original mixed media work by The Connor Brothers, presenting a carefully arranged line of weathered paperback spines, each one printed with a wry, perceptive or subversive title. The books appear aged, their typography echoing mid-century pulp fiction, yet their text feels sharply rooted in the present: “Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Taken”, “Every Saint Has a Past and Every Sinner Has a Future”, “Why Fit In When You Were Born To Stand Out”. These statements, half-wise and half-irreverent, turn the bookshelf into a form of visual philosophy. A light scatter of pigment to the right interrupts the composition, reminding us that even nostalgia is never perfectly neat.
The Connor Brothers – the collective pseudonym of Mike Snelle and James Golding – have built an international reputation on the tension between fact and fiction. Their practice began as an invented biography, a deliberate mask that questioned the very idea of authenticity in contemporary culture. That fascination remains central: their works borrow the language of the familiar, then twist it into something both humorous and unsettling.
In The Classics XIII, literature becomes a mirror for modern anxieties and contradictions. What looks like a library becomes a portrait of human behaviour, filtered through irony, longing and wit – an invitation to question how much of what we accept as truth is simply a story we like the sound of.
