As a young artist, Adam McEwen subsidised his passion working as an obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph - but later merged his skills. He is currently showing his latest works in London, featuring well known faces including Greta Thunberg, Dolly Parton, Lewis Hamilton and Grace Jones.
"They won't be updated," says McEwen."Also, they function differently later. Let's say, Macaulay Culkin, the actor. In 2004 he had a certain stature and a certain story; he was in Home Alone... 20 years later, we see it from a different position... You see this artwork now and it's like, that's not how I think about Macaulay Culkin anymore."McLaren, the former Sex Pistols manager and partner of Westwood, later came to hear about his own obit.
He says Koons was also aware of his."It's a funny relationship, but it's not... people have said to me, why don't you do Trump? Kill him! They're not really getting the point."McEwen says he doesn't worry about how his subjects might react to seeing the stories of their lives told through their made-up deaths."The only thing I know about Greta Thunberg, for real...
"I don't think [it's] upsetting. Apart from anything else, these things exist in filing cabinets, or in digital filing cabinets, already for famous people. For Dolly Parton, there are already obituaries written for her, because they have to be. All I'm doing is appropriating something that's already there.
Just like a real newspaper article, there may be errors to look out for in his artwork, he says."Typos, sure. Maybe factual errors. I mean, exactly like a newspaper. It's 6pm. It's got to go to press. We do the best [we can] and then the next morning, 'Oh f***, we've missed that typo'. It's the same. I've done them when they go, 'in 19XX...' and I was going to find the date [but forgot], and then it's done and it's in the exhibition.
Adam McEwen's exhibition of fake obituaries dedicated to living celebrities is showing at Gagosian's Davies Street gallery in London until 11 March
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