{"id":5035,"date":"2009-04-28T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2010-03-16T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:44:10","slug":"the-art-of-anthony-goicolea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/28\/the-art-of-anthony-goicolea\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Anthony Goicolea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Premature (2003).<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s difficult to avoid the word “dreamlike” when looking at Anthony Goicolea<\/a>‘s carefully-staged tableaux, all of which use the artist himself as their subject, redressed and multiplied by Photoshop into an army of clones. The artist-as-model isn’t a new thing\u2014Cindy Sherman<\/a> has been doing this for years\u2014but the possibilities of digital manipulation still seem rather under-explored in the contemporary art world; whether that’s down to a lack of the necessary aptitude on the part of artists or simply avoidance of a medium more commonly associated with advertising and illustration is hard to say.<\/p>\n

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Poolpushers I (2001).<\/em><\/p>\n

Goicolea certainly has the aptitude, many of these images have the same slightly hallucinatory quality as the photo-collages which Hipgnosis produced for album covers in the 1970s. When you add the inevitable narrative speculation which any staged photo generates\u2014what exactly is happening in these pictures?\u2014and a gay subtext which quite often becomes a very overt text, you have something very intriguing indeed.<\/p>\n

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Cannibals (2001).<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Jason Driskill<\/a>
\n\u2022 Toxicboy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Premature (2003). It’s difficult to avoid the word “dreamlike” when looking at Anthony Goicolea‘s carefully-staged tableaux, all of which use the artist himself as their subject, redressed and multiplied by Photoshop into an army of clones. The artist-as-model isn’t a new thing\u2014Cindy Sherman has been doing this for years\u2014but the possibilities of digital manipulation still … Continue reading “The art of Anthony Goicolea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,12],"tags":[366,367,430,1085],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-photography","tag-anthony-goicolea","tag-cindy-sherman","tag-hipgnosis","tag-toxicboy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}