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Lara Schnitger, Grim Boy
 
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TITLE:  Grim Boy
ARTIST:  Lara Schnitger
WORK DATE:  2005
PERIOD:  21st century
CATEGORY:  Mixed Media
MATERIALS:  wood, fabric, and mixed media
SIZE:  h: 180 x w: 150 x d: 150 cm / h: 70.9 x w: 59.1 x d: 59.1 in
REGION:  Dutch
STYLE:  Contemporary
PRICE:  Not for Sale
GALLERY:  Saatchi Gallery  +44 (0)20 7811 3070  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  Swathed in black with fuzzy face and dangling dreads, Lara Schnitger’s Grim Boy is the epitome of skulking teenager: grody, rank, and insipid. Draping fabric over a wooden frame base, Schnitger perfectly captures the awkwardness of physical development, disproportioned and gangly, torso bugling with the remnants of puppy fat, head thrust forward in a spit of aggression. Her jostling laugh at pubescent boorishness turns quickly to horror. In the light of Columbine, and the recent spate of goth gang murders and suicides, adolescent angst poses as real threat, a demon seed bread from cultural anxiety.

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