John's Body, 2011
Digital print on paper
55 x 75 cm / 22 x 30 inches
Edition of 25
Poster signed on back
Euro 300 incl. VAT

»The mushrooms are a code for John Cage, to me. He was an amateur mycologist and there are some nice photos of him with mushrooms, I printed one in a catalogue a couple of years ago. I like mushrooms generally but also as a strange metaphor for objects multiplying. Mushrooms are such organic objects, objectlike organic beings. People often tell me that sometimes there is a resemblance between Cage and myself, our faces from certain angles ….« (Tom Burr on »John’s Body«)

Tom Burr, born in New Haven in 1963, lives in Norfolk, Connecticut, and New York City. In his installations and sculptures, Burr often addresses problems, figures and works relating to Minimal Art and Postminimalism. For Spike, he has varied a simple photograph of a toadstool in size, colour and format and let it »mushroom« all over the poster. The result is a quasi-minimalist dotted pattern that is organically interrupted and seems to pulse psychedelically.