Photograph by Wiener Andy, 'No. 5: Meets His Match' from the series A Rake's Progress, C-Type print, 1986
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| Brief description | Photograph by Wiener Andy, 'No. 5: Meets His Match' from the series A Rake's Progress, C-Type print, 1986 |
| Dimensions | - Height: 33cm
- Width: 39.5cm
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| Gallery label | - Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)
These photographs refer to William Hogarth’s series of paintings about the downfall of an extravagant, womanizing ‘rake’. All the figures wear masks of the same face (the photographer’s own), suggesting the central character’s egotism. While Hogarth’s rake ends up in an insane asylum, Wiener’s descends into madness in front of a television, in a scene the artist says ‘corresponds to a modern Bedlam’.
Marta Weiss
- Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014):
Andy Wiener (born 1959)
No. 2: Childhood
No. 4: As an Eligible Bachelor
No. 5: Meets his Match
No. 6: The Marriage
No. 8: Breakfast SceneNo. 9: Sometime After the Marriage
From the series A Rake’s Progress
1986
These photographs refer to William Hogarth’s series of paintings about the downfall of an extravagant, womanising ‘rake’. All the figures wear masks of the same face, suggesting the central character’s egotism. While Hogarth’s rake ends up in an insane asylum, Wiener’s descends into madness in front of a television, in a scene the artist says, ‘corresponds to a modern Bedlam’.
C-type prints
Museum nos. Ph.341-1987, 343, 344, 345, 347, 349
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