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Yannick Demmerle

A drawing of a human figure. An upside down face with two skulls coming off it. The lower half looks like they are wearing pants lined with ejaculating penises.

Yeah, I’m young, fit, but also handsome, brilliant and virile. Do we really need to be nice?

Yannick has been artist in residence in our library. He’s arrested us with his energy and intensity. There’s no self-effacing irony for Yannick; no false artistic modesty: when he makes art, he means it.

It takes blowing off everything for your artwork ... the family, money, security, happiness, friends. Are you ready to do that for yours, darling?

During his time at Mona he’s made a series of large works on paper, a new direction in his practice about which he is tremendously excited.

Curated by Olivier Varenne

Header Image: Untitled #8 (detail), 2012, Yannick Demmerle
Pencil on paper

  • When:

    19 September 2012–11 March 2013

  • Location:

    Mona

Yannick Demmerle Mona catalogue, brown cover with drawing on front.

‘As I told ya, I got nothing intelligent to say about the work (and the less I’ll talk about it, the more fascinating, mysterious, weird and fucked up it’ll be!! And that’s how I want it to fly).

As Eugen Schönebeck says: “I favour the art of not thinking”.

(And please don’t be shy with me!)’

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