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Super Ape | 2015
Super Ape,
2015
(Inflatable, timer)
300 x 300 x 150 cm
Courtesy: the artists and Pinksummer gallery, Genova
(Inflatable, timer)
300 x 300 x 150 cm
Courtesy: the artists and Pinksummer gallery, Genova
“We are going to present a peculiar and very personal mythology of emperors and kings. The scene is occupied by a huge inflatable gorilla (Super Ape) that inflates and deflates cyclically; Lee “Scratch” Perry in 1975 recorded “Super Ape”, considered one of the first - if not the first - dub album in history. This year is its twentieth anniversary and, to celebrate its issue, Perry has just ended a tour in the United States. The big ape on display has been on all the stages of the tour and was produced through a crowd-funding campaign to which we contributed substantially; now we are the owners of the ape; and it will travel with us.” […]
http://pinksummer.com/artists/invernomuto
