Thanks to It’s Nice That, I got to find out that UK artist Barnaby Barford has a new show that just opened up in London. Barford’s new show, Private Lives features witty ceramic figures with even wittier titles, featuring all the pop characters we know and love. Think of it as Pop ceramics. The above piece is titled Stick that on YouTube!, if that will give you any idea of what his work is like. Barford’s work does what any good, modern, pop art does: it satirizes our idolizing of popular characters in a culture that can barely wipe its own ass anymore. Something like that.
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