Collages Index | Richard Horvath Artworks
Climate
1989-90
Stencilled colour, flywire mesh and lead
56 x 41 cms
The alarm over climate change is not new to 2010; gloomy talk of a possible nuclear winter resulting from a muscular US foreign policy unsettled people in the late 1980's.
The theme of apocalypse has recurred regularly in art and the spike of grungy neo-expressionist art of that period is reflected in this collage. The deluge that overpowers the figure literally on his knees is an updated invocation of Europe after the rain.
The theme of apocalypse has recurred regularly in art and the spike of grungy neo-expressionist art of that period is reflected in this collage. The deluge that overpowers the figure literally on his knees is an updated invocation of Europe after the rain.