Yesterday evening i visited Salt on the Wound, an exhibition of some of most significant works of American photographer Andres Serrano, at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan.
It’s very hard to ignore Serrano’s work. He’s been spending the last decade(s) shocking the world with photographs that use semen, that depict a masturbating nun or Jesus Christ on a crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine (the Piss Christ.) I usually try to avoid using the word “beautiful” in my posts but in the case of Serrano’s work it’s proving too hard. I entered the gallery thinking i’d have a nice time watching a few fashionably scandalous pictures hanging on walls. I definitely wasn’t prepared for what i felt there.
Starting with the Black Supper which dominates the first room and mesmerized me for some time. The artist realised the photographies by spray painting statues of Christ and the […]
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