Franko B > works > performance:
Oh Lover Boy
performance
(2001-2005)
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Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
about:
“My work focuses on the visceral, where the body is a canvas and an unmediated site for representation for the sacred, the beautiful, the untouchable, the unspeakable, and for the pain, the love, the hate, the loss, the power and the fears of the human condition. My performance practice reduces the body to its most carnal, bloody, raw, exposed, existential and essential state. My installations and sculpture work distil these emotions to minimal poetic phases and symbols that resonate profoundly within the spectator. My recent work synthesise both performance and visual art installation; the body becomes subject and object , life model and the work of arts itself , the viewer and viewed.” – F.B.
performances:
2005
the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
2001
Live Art at Kanonhallen, Copenhagen
Beaconsfield, London
Fierce Festival, Birmingham
Arsenic, Losanna, Switzerland
Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
photos:
photographs by Manuel Vason
Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
videos:
Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
reviews:
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• Bloody Perculiar
Lyn Gardner, the Guardian (May 2001)
Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
monograph:
Oh Lover Boy: about | photos | videos | reviews | monograph | related works
related works:
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• Oh Lover Boy: The Exhibition
exhibition (2002)
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• Blood Canvas
series of collages and wrapped objects (1998-2003)
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• Haute Couture
garments (1999-2008)
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Aktion 398
performance (1998-2002)
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• I Miss You
performance (1999-2005)
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• Still Life
performance (2003-2006)