Product type:
Print
“He had allowed the dark side of him to create something evil”
Two-colour screenprint
70 × 85 cm (unframed)
330 gsm Fedrigoni paper
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered
Optionally, the print can be framed in a chunky black frame with regular glass and a black gloss tear, with black gloss drips and blobs.
For a more exclusive option, the same frame is available with non-reflective glass – allowing you to see the artwork itself, rather than the reflection of your apartment or yourself.
The Black Album is the sixteenth studio album by the American musician Prince. It was released on November 22, 1994, by Warner Bros. Records, but was originally planned for December 8, 1987, as the follow-up to Sign o’ the Times – in a completely black sleeve with no title or artist credit, which is why it became known as The Black Album. Press releases dubbed it The Funk Bible, and a hidden message within the album itself reinforced that. The work was intended as a response to criticism that Prince had become too pop-oriented – it was his attempt to win back his Black audience. The 1987 promo-only release contained no printed title, artist name, production credits, or photography; only a simple black sleeve accompanied the disc. Promotional copies featured only a track listing and catalog number (25677) on the disc itself.
“This is part of the Nightmare Series: A chance email from a Chinese ‘copy village’ inspired this series. The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce – including three Andy Warhol paintings. The idea that Warhol’s entire artistic output could be distilled into three tiny 64 × 64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor, and an Electric Chair became the inspiration for these doomed and dripping celebrity portraits.”
