Description:

CHRISTOPHER LANGTON (born 1954)
Give it to Me (I Can Take It) 2003
digital print on inflatable PVC
121cm (diameter)

PROVENANCE:
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2003
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITIONS:
PrOn, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2003

OTHER NOTES:
Christopher Langton's inflatable sculptures and paintings demand attention. Smooth as sin, sharp as glare and shiny as a supermodel's pout, they seduce and titillate…another inflated disc, throbbing with a different sort of passion. It's a larger than life close-up of a blow-up doll, lips parted, titled Give it to Me (I Can Take It). No explanation needed…"To me this is . . . the pornography of the art world; it's like cheap sex," the artist says…"It's all surface and, according to people, there's no depth, there's no meaning to it. You look at it once and then you forget it in five seconds, so I'm playing with those ideas." (From the exhibition review, Coslovich G., Inflatable object of desire, The Age, 19 July 2003

© Christopher Langton

  • Provenance: Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2003
    Private collection, Melbourne
  • Dimensions: 121cm (diameter)
  • Exhibited: PrOn, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2003
  • Medium: digital print on inflatable PVC
  • Notes: Christopher Langton's inflatable sculptures and paintings demand attention. Smooth as sin, sharp as glare and shiny as a supermodel's pout, they seduce and titillate…another inflated disc, throbbing with a different sort of passion. It's a larger than life close-up of a blow-up doll, lips parted, titled Give it to Me (I Can Take It). No explanation needed…"To me this is . . . the pornography of the art world; it's like cheap sex," the artist says…"It's all surface and, according to people, there's no depth, there's no meaning to it. You look at it once and then you forget it in five seconds, so I'm playing with those ideas." (From the exhibition review, Coslovich G., Inflatable object of desire, The Age, 19 July 2003

    © Christopher Langton

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