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Monsters are Inoffensive from Fluxkit

Roland ToporWW-1966-M057112

1966·Multiple of plastic box containing 22 offset cards from a multiple containing 31 objects in various media·Cards (ea.): 6 3/8 x 4 1/4" (16.2 x 10.8 cm) Box: 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 7/16" (18.1 x 13.0 x 1.1 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1966
Medium: Multiple of plastic box containing 22 offset cards from a multiple containing 31 objects in various media
Dimensions: Cards (ea.): 6 3/8 x 4 1/4" (16.2 x 10.8 cm) Box: 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 7/16" (18.1 x 13.0 x 1.1 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Roland Topor

Artist

Roland Topor

Roland Topor was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker whose grotesque, densely hatched drawings and paintings depicted nightmarish figuration and bodily distortion. Working across drawing, printmaking, and film throughout the postwar period, he developed a visual language of psychological unease populated by contorted forms and claustrophobic spaces. His work inhabits the territory between Surrealism and Expressionism, with an emphasis on the abject and the unsettling rather than the dreamlike or poetic. Topor's formal precision in rendering disorder and his commitment to discomfort as an aesthetic principle distinguished his practice from his contemporaries.

Paris

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