The Hot One Hundred

细节

Peter Davies (B. 1970)
The Hot One Hundred
signed, titled and dated 'Peter Davies "THE HOT ONE HUNDRED" JULY 1997' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80in. (254 x 203.2cm.)
Painted in 1997

来源

Acquired directly from the artist in 1997.

出版

J. Stallabrass, High Art Lite: The rise and fall of young British art, London 2001, no. 26 (illustrated in colour, p. 83).
J. A Walker, Art and Celebrity, London 2003, p. 9.
A. Eliasch and G. De Cruz, British Artists At Work, New York 2003, p. 58.

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, 1998.

注意事项

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拍品专文

As frivolous and entertaining as a late night Top 100 TV show, Peter Davies’s large-scale painting The Hot One Hundred makes art history into a hilarious chart-topping exercise. Disrupting the slick aesthetic of high Minimalist painting – the colourful grid echoes something of a Gerhard Richter colour chart – with deliberately wonky handwritten presentation, he presents a list of his ‘Hot One Hundred’ artists and their best works. Bruce Nauman has the honour of first place, with ‘Almost all of it (90-95%)’; Willem de Kooning makes it in at number 34 with ‘More abstracted less figurative stuff’; Titian gets a look in at 51 with ‘Any featuring monsters/dragons.’ As amusing as the work is, Davies has a provocative point to make about the games of fame, power and acclaim in the art world: the work’s vast scale bathetically undermines the expectation of a big painting with a big meaning, instead discussing great art with the monumental vapidity of a pop countdown. Painted in 1998, the work anticipates the influential annual ‘Power 100’ ranking initiated four years later by ArtReview magazine – satire is never too far from reality.