'THE PHARMACEUTICAL BESTIARY'

[RedPropeller]

GUY DENNING'S '‘THE PHARMACEUTICAL BESTIARY’ IS LIVE ON SITE NOW

AT

www.redpropeller.co.uk

AND GOING LIVE AT 23 VYNER STREET, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9DG

THIS THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER, 08

FROM 6PM



PLUS

NEW GUY DENNING PRINT RELEASE
‘f**kED UP CELEBRITY PORTRAIT #1’
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION GICLEE PRINT (25)

£195.00

AND

UNIQUE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES - £95.00

[scavos]

Cheers RP.
This looks like an amazing collection of work. I appreciate Guy's comments about this work too:
"I have always been fascinated by the medieval obsession with the Bestiarum vocabulum - or Bestiary. An illustrated encyclopedia of animals (real, believed and imagined) where the hand painted illustration would be accompanied by a moral lesson. The lessons of a pious and virtuous life, or fears of divine retribution, were tied to the real world experiences of the known and the unknown world of imagined and foreign beasts.
There was also the crossover from moralism to medication - the bestiary could also describe the possible pharmacological uses of animals and their by-products.
My Pharmaceutical Bestiary is a personal, contemporary equivalent. An individual rail against the presumed scientific authority of the mental health business and the moralistic approach taken by government over the differences between approved (taxable) and unapproved (untaxable) medications that individuals self-prescribe as a comfort against society's dysfunction", www.redpropeller.co.uk/section229341_180469.html

Intelligent, insightful, intriguing, disturbing, emotive and as appealing as ever. Good on you Guy for getting this body of work out of your system - although I somehow suspect they'll be more where they came from. El Dopa, Monkey Pump and Haloperidol already feel like old friends. Tackling issues around mental health is always going to be tricky, with stereotypes and stigma forming ripe barriers that feed off the hypocrisy of the pervading portrayal of societal norms. Media as a vehicle of poisonous misrepresentation and false messiahs. Reminds me of why I taste bile every time I see the cover of Hello magazine. How often do we truly question what 'they' tell us? As Milgram famously demonstrated, not nearly as much as we should. Puppets or players? All in a days work for this fine artist and something that clearly comes from very deep within.

So tempted by the print too but no money this time around. Fingers crossed they'll be one or two left by the time I can afford one. f**ked Up Celebrity... is a great choice for a print IMO.

[Silky]

Hope it all goes well at the Show tonight ;D Im sure it will! Wish I could be there.

[photoxtc]

Really gorgeous pieces of art...

Best of luck RP and Guy...

Hoping someone will post some picts ;D

[Standard Daz]

Unfortunately didn't take a camera but had a good night, met and had a good chin wag with Guy, Sarah & Dave (all very nice people & Mrs denning too) and the work is outstanding. Especially liked Monkey pump, Amph Debs, Wasted Again, Holy Morphine and Haliperidol which is an absolute jaw dropper. (basically they're all good and it's definitely worth a visit)

[misteraitch]

Gutted I couldn't make this show - especially after recieving my copy of the catalogue from Colleen (thanks btw ;D)

I missed having the opportunity to sink a few with Guy and Col and plot against the state

[bostonlongstroke]

f@CK!...

I luv that 'F@cked up Celebrity..' piece, so much!

And...

'Another Debs Crash...'

So Wicked!