Say Hello To Your Mother For Me

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Tim Rollins & K.O.S.

From X-Men/Malcom X (After Marvel Comics and Malcom X), 1997.
Comic book covers and book pages mounted on rag board, 23.2 x 15.3 cm.

From the Temptation of Saint Antony-Other Voices (After Gustave Flaubert), 1989-1990. Powdered pigment, india ink, alcohol, watercolor, turpentine and xerograph on rag paper, 28 x 21.6 cm.

 

TIM ROLLINS & K.O.S. (Kids Of Survival) have been collaboratively drawing and painting on book pages since 1982. They have used texts that are fundamental to Western culture and have developed a visual synthesis that preserves a memory of spontaneous associations with the original text. Glued onto canvas, the pages of these same texts become the support for medium and large-scale pictorial works, and for a series of works on paper.

All images courtesy of the artist and their respective galleries