even to spark out now would be no pain- Trojan. An Anti (Art) Fair.
MAYBURY, (John). (Illustrator).
Original exhibition poster. 65.5 x 94cm., printed on both sides; a montage portrait of the artist Trojan in five colours and oversized benday dots on a white stock, lettered in white, black and orange, the reverse lettered and illustrated in black on white, one of the 23 unfolded not for sale copies from a total run of around 50. N.p. [London], An Anti-Art Fair, c. 1986
In fine condition, sandwich framed between two sheets of glass. Rare.
A vivid image; the level of colour saturation is astonishing. Trojan is depicted as a demi-mustachioed, one and a half eared aesthete in an oversized jacket. A skull floats directly above his tousled hair.
The artist, model and designer Trojan, real name Gary Barnes, had died of an accidental heroin overdose, at the age of 21, shortly before this poster was issued. He was the lover of film maker John Maybury, who illustrated this poster, and a close friend/intimate of bisexual clothes designer and exhibitionist Leigh Bowery. Bowery and Trojan shared an East End council flat with a bizarre or perhaps surreal interior. This flat appears in Charles Atlas`s contemporaneous film on dancer Michael Clark called Hail The New Puritan. It is said that Trojan cut off his ear, and lipsticked the stub, to take his personal grooming beyond the pale at his regular appearances at the nightclub Taboo.
The artists included Wilma Johnson, a young Timothy Prus with "four exhibits", Angus Cook offering "Pet Consciousness" and many others.
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