Description

Grasping & Gasping (Pylons & Nylons and Hooves & Hands and Benson & Hedges), 2014. Digital Pigment Print onto Somerset Radiant White Velvet 255gsm paper and Silkscreen Overlay in 7 colours onto 440 micron clear Acetate. 60 x 40 cm. Edition of 50 + 10 APs, signed and numbered. Special launch price: £500 (unframed)*. Chisenhale Friends’ price: £450 (unframed)*. Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to present a very special limited edition by Mark Leckey, as the fourth in our annual series of ‘Archive Editions’. Titled Grasping & Gasping (Pylons & Nylons and Hooves & Hands and Benson & Hedges) this exclusive limited edition is a diptych comprising a giclee print overlaid with two images silkscreened onto acetate. Background images are collaged from stock photography – electricity pylons and fishnet tights sourced online – and juxtaposed with Benson & Hedges advertising from the 1980s. The adverts, found in magazines, feature the iconic gold cigarette pack in a series of surreal settings, devoid of words and people, in which the object embodies a set of characteristics, behaviour or style. Printed on acetate, with reference to traditional animation techniques, pairs of disembodied cartoon hands and hooves grasp at the surface of the image below.