Modern life is rubbish

Kip Andrews11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Fifty years on from the birth of 'Pop Art', many of today's artists see consumer culture very differently.

Where once artists celebrated the image of Omo, Daz and Hoover - paintings packed with images of consumer goods - nowadays the feeling is one of escape. Artists are concerned that global multi-national brands are eating us up.

They see the world as a packaged product - from Coke to Nike to McDondald's.

And this lonely and packaged world is illustrated to great effect in Perverse Pop, a show that wears its anti-consumer heart on its sleeve.

Gareth Morgan has painted a munching, McDonald's drone, David Hancock paints disaffected teens locked away in their bedrooms with their Marilyn Manson posters, while cult graffiti artist Banksy brings his anti-establishment spray work into the gallery.

If the thought of a Big Mac turns your stomach, this exhibition is for you.

Perverse Pop
Catto Contemporary, EC2
February 22 - March 23
10am-6pm Monday-Friday, noon-6pm Saturday, admission free.
020 7729 0555.

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