Artist Profile: Michael Bevilacqua at Louisiana Museum

"In Bevilacqua’s iconic kaleidoscope we find the bogeymen of pop culture, the freaks with mental late-night passes: the punk supremos The Ramones with the cover photo from Rocket to Russia, the eighties Goth pastiche group The Cramps, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and many others as well as much more innocuous figures: the super-cute teddies The Care Bears and Andy Warhol's stylized, gaudy flowers, for example. The cuddly animals of the MTV generation come from all cultural strata and populate all the spaces of consciousness. The sampled works with references to brand-name clothing, the music idols of the seventies like Kraftwerk, McSolaar and Air, the visual artist Mathew Barney’s video works, Japanese food products and Chinese characters are a remix of the high and low cultures in which the artist has grown up meticulously executed by hand in through-composed pictures with a graphic look and processed in a technique and aesthetic with roots in the racing car milieu in California." (more at link)--