Pure Evil: The Last Good Time

Andy Warhol’s famous dictum that “making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art” feels in an age of media hype and art market saturation less like an off hand quip and more a prescient statement of fact, fitting then that the impetus for the series of darkly reductive prints created by artist Pure Evil that make up the core of the Last Good Time show was an email received from a village in China specializing in the reproduction of the classic canon of western artwork, a factory indifferently churning out Rembrandts and Warhol’s alike.

From this spark came further prints in a series built around the idea of the muse, the ‘POP’ combustibility of creative relationships and the dark side of classic glamour found prior to tabloid overloads or carefully crafted identities and seen through the ghostly tear filled eyes of Elizabeth Taylor, Li Tobler, Sylvette Davide and Brigitte Bardot.