Richard Phillips: Smiley Eric Darragon The catalogue highlights twenty-eight pieces

The catalogue highlights twenty-eight pieces with extensive photography and contains a comprehensive section dedicated to the processes involved in making the works—reproducing preliminary sketches

FLOWERS (2022)

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to the most recent works

The painting Now (2015–16) embodies an interchange between light and dark

Richard Phillips: Smiley Eric Darragon The catalogue highlights twenty-eight piecesRichard Phillips created Smiley, an eighteen color lithograph, in collaboration with Idem Paris in 2021. It is based on an oil on linen painting of the same name from 2000. In his practice, Phillips engages the complex web of human obsessions related to sexuality, politics, power, and death that are constantly exploited in mainstream media. Subjecting popular images to a range of classical painterly techniques, he estranges their familiarity and thus