SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 2012
Whilst we teeter on the crack of 2012 before the inevitable drift into the gaping cesspit that will inevitably be the year 2013, We give you the last of this years posts from us here at The Moot Art Gallery. 2012 has seen us seep into existence, lather, link and lube up our online pages, send out some 22,487 unsolicited promiscuous and procreative proposals, tweet off a host of little scuttery tweets and accumulate a series of noteworthy posts that sift on through to the dreary clicking and clanging of time only to be neatly crusted over and archived for future enjoyment and pleasure on our .com, .com .orgy gallore. Anyway as not to dwell on the past we must now look forward to the dark and looming future for more debauched happenings of soiled dwindlings as well as informative insight derived from this neo-cosmic junk pile we call planet earth as brought to you by our host of creative provocateurs.
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| Cover page to Stephen Morton's 'Tales of Domestic Decadence' (2012) |
The origins of this post started a couple of weeks back before the recently enjoyed Christian Death Fest. Before these festive burning's I was busy cooped up in the Moot Art Gallery offices trying to get in contact with one of our clients, artist Stephen Morton. After many attempts to get in contact with him in regards to the production of new work I finally got word handed to me in the office. The word came in the form of a soiled piece of paper indicating that he was indeed working on a new series of drawings. From what i could make out from the brief scrambling was that the new work was intriguingly titled 'Tales of Domestic Decadence' which to me upon reading it the name had a faint waft of Franz Von Bayros 'Tales at the Dressing Table' of which i know Stephen has creamed himself over before on multiple occasions.
The prospect of this new work being somewhat in a similar anal pit to the Von Bayros series had me quite excited. A couple weeks later (infact this very morning) i unexpectedly awoke from one of my many nocturnal emission to receive the first image and what seems to be the cover to Stephen Morton's 'Tales of Domestic Decadence' in my inbox. The image depicts a young girl jabbing what appears to be an ice pick into the penis of a man whilst simultaneously having sexual intercourse with a demented (possibly rabies driven mad) man with what seems to be cannibalistic tendencies as he gnaws on her young delicate meaty leg. The work to my knowledge looks to be coloured digitally and bares many of the hallmarks in themes of sexual perversion and moral corruption that we have come to expect in Stephens work. From my initial reaction to the cover (and it is what I'm liking most from 'Tales of Domestic Decadence') is the fact there is nothing whatsoever decadent about this image, it appears as a tantalizingly repulsive mise en scene of depraved sexual acts. The title of the work and the image juxtaposed immediately unhinges the viewer and plays into the idea of what do we normally consider to be decadent and what it is the artist considers to be decadent? this corruption of the concept leaves a waffling drool in our mouths as we consider over an old Grannies mauling of her crusty old genitals to be something of a new found decadence. At least a new found decadence that Stephen may seem haphazardly to navigate but nonetheless is one to be taking into account.
SUNDAY, 24TH FEBRUARY, 2013
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| Stephen Morton - Good Family Planning (2013) |
This Sunday afternoon I found a new piece over at loveclots.com from the
Stephen Morton 'Tales of Domestic Decadence’ range. The new drawing
titled ‘Good Family Planning’ brings us back to a nightmarish vision of the
nuclear family gone balls up. The vocal point lay’s with a young couple in
reasonable pouts of agony after a spout of genital mutilation. There around
them is assumedly a family of children. Some murdered, abused or starving. We
can conclude the castrations are done as a result of the children’s deathly
state which gives us the jeering title ‘Good Family Planning’. Other characters
appear in the background, a man smoking a cigarette sitting on the counter
looks comfortably on. Freddy Krueger snarls out at a sickly child from the t.v
screen. There are various pull outs and cut outs from porn mags and biological
journals. One big pull out from a magazine titled ‘Super Sweet Teens’ is plastered
on the wall, the poster shows two men perform sexually deviant acts on the
corpse body of a young women. One man fucks her whilst the other defecates in
her mouth. This offers a bleak insight as to where contemporary forms of
pornography may be heading.
We will continue to follow up on more work from this series in the near
future.
