Charlott Markus didn’t so much kill this darling, as wish to resurrect it! Pygmalion is a work from her exam show at the Rietveld Academy, for all intents and purposes 'dead to the world' and buried in the past, yet already containing all the seeds for themes and patterns that keep reappearing and evolving throughout her work. Extended still lives, activism, textiles, memento mori, the colour blue and last but not least, the coded autobiographical references in her seemingly abstract works. Quite literally woven into the fabric of her oeuvre, are the people, the places and the ideas that left their mark on her. Informed by her background in psychology and theology, her work doesn’t shy away from spirituality. The spirituality contained within this beautifully constructed photographic composition is hidden yet palpable, and this archival print, this historical monument, has been generously offered up for auction by the artist at the symbolic starting price of one euro. By bidding you support Darling Killers and the artist directly.
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Darling Killers #01 - Finn Godwin
Our first guest on Darling Killers is a young artist who wakes up every morning and gets to work. His “restless hand syndrome”, requires that he keeps his hands busy, and through embracing the ethos of homework on the kitchen table, he just keeps making work. Ink drawings in the morning, paintings in the afternoon, and intricate collage work in the evening. There is a lot of time and craftsmanship put into creating each and every elaborate vignette. The truth of the image, lies in the detail. Nature is very much his thing, and for our “Resurrauction” he is offering an incredible piece that took over two years to make, Autumn Garden (incomplete) is a rather typical specimen of his work, one however he has recently given up on. We urge you to pick up where he left off, and tell Autumn Garden: You complete me! The work is available at the symbolic starting price of one euro. By bidding here you support Darling Killers and the artist directly.
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Introduction
Hanna, Lina, Tania and Jessie, aka the Dead Darlings Collective, got together in Amsterdam to record a conversation about things to come! We talk about our origins, the ideas baked into the work we do, and we introduce Darling Killers, the podcast where artists are interrogated about an artwork they killed. This work will subsequently be available on our website, where anyone can bid for it at our monthly “resurrauction”. Follow, subscribe, stay tuned!
Darling Killers is a podcast where we interrogate artists about a specific artwork they killed during the artistic process. Something with personal meaning to the artist, yet no commercial price tag, something they would not otherwise exhibit or sell.
In the podcast, we single out individual artists who plead guilty of killing a darling, we poke and prod to find out the circumstances, search for the motive and eventually, we strive to redeem the artwork in question through an online “Resurrauction”.
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