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Zappa-ing by Tony Alcock | Sculpture | Artlimes
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Zappa-ing

Zappa-ing, 2012

Tony Alcock

Original Sculpture69.7 x 100 x 7 cm

Mixed media

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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.

Sculpture

About this Sculpture

The heart of this picture is a screen print on a thin sheet of aluminium. The image is developed from a photograph of a collage of deteriorating publicity posters taken in Amsterdam on New Year's Eve, 1972. In the Autumn of that year, Frank Zappa and the ‘Hot Rats’ orchestra had gigged in Europe.

Frank’s ‘Zapata’ moustache and facial hair were central to his image and thus the hook upon which this composition hangs. The lower part of the composition comprises a section of a coloured screen print on A1 size paper from an edition of 15, long sold out. This off-cut itself is sublimated to an to being an aleatory composition, created by the passage of time.
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