“The Family”
Private View: Wednesday 27th August from 5pm
Extended launch party at Cargo till late.
Exhibition dates 28th August - 4th September 2008.
“Dear patrons please charge your glasses and drink heartily for tomorrow you may die”
The warped collective imagination of Le Gun presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb. They are an unusual dynasty… Raised on the streets of parallel metropolis Legundon, an eccentrically Anglo-Saxon place of loose women, gin and cream cakes, and Francis Bacon’s butchers shop.
Le Gun will simultaneously launch their latest publication - Le Gun #4. The net has been cast far and wide for this issue… promising a rich and slippery harvest of pictures and words, a catch that includes: Polish artist-crustacean Andrzej Klimowski, Will Sweeney, creator of “Tales of Green Fuzz”, visionary draughtsman Paul Noble, and writing from beat generation expert Barry Miles and dandy of the underworld Sebastian Horsley + fresh fruit from young novelist Richard Milward, ethnographic writer Iain Sinclair and the “Hunter S Thompson of Hartlepool”, Michael Smith.
Added to these afore-mentioned are the less well-known but equally delectable new voices that have been chosen for fullness of flavor and keenness of eye…
The result is a vivid story of stories and stands as an independent work in its own right; somewhere between pulp fiction and an artist’s edition. Indigestible in one sitting, this confection asks to be treasured and revisited…
Finally… after the Private View at Rochelle School a motley parade will be making its way round the corner to Cargo, led by the infamous Trans-Siberian Marching Band.