The Classics III
Size:21 x 16 in.
The Classics III is a 17" x 12" mixed media composition that continues The Connor Brothers’ distinctive dialogue between nostalgia and contemporary critique. A row of worn paperback spines forms the central structure of the piece, their faded typography and frayed edges evoking the tactile familiarity of second-hand literature. Yet the titles that run along them subvert expectation: sardonic, self-aware and often darkly comic, they read like distilled fragments of a modern psyche – “Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Taken”, “I Drink Therefore I Can”, “Every Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner Has A Future”. These invented book titles turn the language of pulp fiction into a commentary on identity, self-destruction, and the search for meaning in an age of performative truth.
Around the books, the artists deliberately leave traces of process: pencil notes, coffee stains, and faint sketch lines that resist polish, reminding the viewer that the artwork is an object in progress rather than a sealed fiction. One handwritten line, “Sometimes it’s not about a happy ending. Sometimes it’s about the story”, acts almost as a key to the work – a quiet acknowledgement of life’s unresolved narratives.
The Connor Brothers, the creative partnership of Mike Snelle and James Golding, emerged from a fabricated biography designed to challenge the art world’s appetite for myth. Their practice continues to dismantle certainty, using humour, appropriation and retro visual language to probe the shifting border between truth and invention.
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Size:21 x 16 in.
The Classics III is a 17" x 12" mixed media composition that continues The Connor Brothers’ distinctive dialogue between nostalgia and contemporary critique. A row of worn paperback spines forms the central structure of the piece, their faded typography and frayed edges evoking the tactile familiarity of second-hand literature. Yet the titles that run along them subvert expectation: sardonic, self-aware and often darkly comic, they read like distilled fragments of a modern psyche – “Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Taken”, “I Drink Therefore I Can”, “Every Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner Has A Future”. These invented book titles turn the language of pulp fiction into a commentary on identity, self-destruction, and the search for meaning in an age of performative truth.
Around the books, the artists deliberately leave traces of process: pencil notes, coffee stains, and faint sketch lines that resist polish, reminding the viewer that the artwork is an object in progress rather than a sealed fiction. One handwritten line, “Sometimes it’s not about a happy ending. Sometimes it’s about the story”, acts almost as a key to the work – a quiet acknowledgement of life’s unresolved narratives.
The Connor Brothers, the creative partnership of Mike Snelle and James Golding, emerged from a fabricated biography designed to challenge the art world’s appetite for myth. Their practice continues to dismantle certainty, using humour, appropriation and retro visual language to probe the shifting border between truth and invention.
