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Last Supper 2010 Art- George Pfau
Artist: George Pfau
Title: Body Layering, Markers of Classification
Size: 18″ x 24″
Medium: Ink, Paper
The self-made-man of today comes in the form of the zombie. In many forms of art the
zombie is constructed and reconstructed into reflections of our human conditions that
can be terrifying, funny, uncanny, and transgressive. The zombie offers conflations of
exterior and interior, uniform and anatomy, skin and guts. The boundaries that surround
and separate each body (each “self”) are drawn into question as skin peels aside and
bodily structures ooze into their surrounding environments. Additionally, when flesh
is devoured and consumed bodies become merged: the self becomes part of the other.
Each of my drawing acts as a mirror, reflecting back bodily structures both imagined and
real. In the enclosed pdf are drawings that combine the components of contemporary
zombie films, 16th Century Italian medical drawings, and Italian Futurist Sculpture.
“Body Layering, Markers of Classification” for example, puts inner and outer bodily
surfaces on display and seeks to find the blurry area between identifiable, named, person
and the area of recognition that occurs as the result of a policeman’s hat, high-heeled
shoes, or bulging muscles. In zombie films, personal names are often erased while these
costume elements remain.
zombie is constructed and reconstructed into reflections of our human conditions that
can be terrifying, funny, uncanny, and transgressive. The zombie offers conflations of
exterior and interior, uniform and anatomy, skin and guts. The boundaries that surround
and separate each body (each “self”) are drawn into question as skin peels aside and
bodily structures ooze into their surrounding environments. Additionally, when flesh
is devoured and consumed bodies become merged: the self becomes part of the other.
Each of my drawing acts as a mirror, reflecting back bodily structures both imagined and
real. In the enclosed pdf are drawings that combine the components of contemporary
zombie films, 16th Century Italian medical drawings, and Italian Futurist Sculpture.
“Body Layering, Markers of Classification” for example, puts inner and outer bodily
surfaces on display and seeks to find the blurry area between identifiable, named, person
and the area of recognition that occurs as the result of a policeman’s hat, high-heeled
shoes, or bulging muscles. In zombie films, personal names are often erased while these
costume elements remain.
Bio: George Pfau grew up in San Francisco, where he is now living after getting a Bachelor’s
Degree from New York University, and recently an MFA from California College of
the Arts. He has just completed his thesis paper about the recognition, classification,
layering and mapping of the human body as seen through the pop-cultural notion of the
zombie. This summer he is making work at an art-residency in Wassaic, New York and
then in Salzburg, Austria, as winner of the Daisy Soros Fine Art Prize.
the Arts. He has just completed his thesis paper about the recognition, classification,
layering and mapping of the human body as seen through the pop-cultural notion of the
zombie. This summer he is making work at an art-residency in Wassaic, New York and
then in Salzburg, Austria, as winner of the Daisy Soros Fine Art Prize.
Body Layering, Markers of classification
The Last Supper Film Festival is an indoor-outdoor film, food, music and art festival occuring in Brooklyn during the crux of seasonal change in September. Referencing the celebratory nature of the feast, and the symposium of genres, the festival kindles the creative miasma sparked by NY's peppery fall and inventive community.The last exposure to outdoor interaction before the shearing winter...