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Reflective Zappa, 2013
Tony Alcock
Mixed media, principally screen ink on aluminium
Original Sculpture, 91 x 104.2 x 4.5 cm
Unique Edition, 1 of 1
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About Tony Alcock
I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognized as an original and practicing artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.
Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been produced after 1993.
I hope you enjoy and get into the work you see, it can then speak for itself.
By the way, whatever you think about the art, I'm very good at wrapping up, packaging and dispatching the finished article!About the Product
In the Autumn of 1972, Frank Zappa and his 'Hot Rats' orchestra gigged in Europe. Whilst in in Amsterdam for the following new year celebrations, I took a photograph of a collage of deteriorating publicity posters, one of which contained an image of Frank Zappa. From this starting point, I developed a series of printed artworks, all which found buyers.
Frank's 'Zapata' moustache and facial hair were clearly central to this image and are thus the hook upon which this central composition hangs; meanwhile the surrounding visual information had mutated into a decorative Post-Pop miasma. This monochrome screen print is part of a series, more often seen in colour. It was originally displayed in another format for an exhibition in 1974.
Having been filed away for many a year, this print on an aluminium panel was retrieved in 2008 with a view to further development. In 2012, this printed panel was set between a mirror surface and a fine steel mesh reinforced by flexible steel cables, creating a softened, reflective image.
It still needed an extra extension, thus a little later, a wooden frame, created from off-cuts of Teak decking and other pieces of wood, was added. This 'sylvan' surround seemed to create a suitable space in which to add my longtime, unused pipe, further emphasising the idea of contemplative reflection.