As fans of this giant of TV comedy might expect, Vic Reeves’ art works mix the surreal and the mundane in a seriously amusing way. Ram-raiding disparate sources of contemporary iconography from celebrities to wildlife and explosives, Reeves’ playfully deranged works are held together by their stylistic tact and control.
Although Reeves primarily is known as a comedian, he is also gaining a reputation as an artist, having studied at Sir John Cass College in Whitechapel in the mid 80s.
The artists Jake and Dinos Chapman describe Moir’s art as “able to command our laughter as a purgative, to encourage the viewer…
As fans of this giant of TV comedy might expect, Vic Reeves’ art works mix the surreal and the mundane in a seriously amusing way. Ram-raiding disparate sources of contemporary iconography from celebrities to wildlife and explosives, Reeves’ playfully deranged works are held together by their stylistic tact and control.
Although Reeves primarily is known as a comedian, he is also gaining a reputation as an artist, having studied at Sir John Cass College in Whitechapel in the mid 80s.
The artists Jake and Dinos Chapman describe Moir’s art as “able to command our laughter as a purgative, to encourage the viewer to leak at both ends”.
’Birds and Their Interactions With Humans’, sees a collection of twelve lithographs by the artist and comic, taken from a body of work that focuses on real and fictional birds, some of which appear in amusing fabricated situations with celebrities.
One piece features the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev “imitating a ‘smew’ as it passes over his house in the direction of the railway lines”. Others, more minimally, present a singular rook that appears to be marching in a bola hat, or a ‘crested tit’ on an interestingly shaped branch with what appears to be a Mohican hairstyle.