Lot 523: l - DAMIEN LOEB

B. 1970
I HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD (PUBLIC DOMAIN)

36 by 162 in. 91.4 by 411.5 cm.

signed with the artist's initials and dated 00; signed, titled and dated 03/01 on the reverse

oil on linen

PROVENANCE

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

EXHIBITED

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Public Domain: Damien Loeb, March - May 2001

LITERATURE

Carey Lovelace, "Damien Loeb at Mary Boone," Art in America, v. 90, no. 2, February 2002, pp. 125-126, illustrated

NOTE

I have made six big paintings which i think capture the good things that make sense in movies. neat places, cool apartments, sexy chicks, and scary grave yards. the dead sheep is cool just because. i have seen these things in real life and they never looked like this. something always fucked it up. in these pictures there is nobody talking to you so you can't concentrate. there isn't anything that is annoying and keeps you from getting into the whole point of stuff. everything just makes sense. if there was something cool that didn't fit into the big picture i made a small one of it.

unfortunately in real life you have to spend a whole lot of time making things look cool. these paintings were a bitch. i always had to bend and twist stuff so it fit in. i know it is cheating but i had to use hundreds of different pieces from all over the place to make the images work. you shouldn't be able to see it though 'cause i made sure that it looked like nothing was changed. it 's cool what you can do with paint if you are really patient. and it is fun to be able to make stuff look the way you want and not the crappy way it really happened.

these are good too because unlike my old stuff hopefully angry photographers wont spend all their time trying to take my money and make me burn my paintings. movies don't have photographers; they call them cinematographers which is a cooler sounding name. and no one can confuse that with someone who paints houses with benjamin moore eggshell white which people do with me when i say that i am a painter.

-- damian loeb, march 16, 2001