James Cauty

Dead Dad 21

Limited Edition Screen print on DOA paper [Death of Art]

Signed in plate in pencil - Edition 7/20

By DOA FINAL SOLUTION PRINT

Print Size - 31 x 38 cm

Unframed

Authenticity D O A stamp  and authorised by the CNPB

Other historical particulars included in the sale    

A contemporary up to date Cauty print based from the now obsolete black and white Dead Dad 1Õ (Dead Dad 1 was mainly intended for Fly Posting so unsigned. Dead dad 1 was an Open edition print run from 2007 by [Operation Magic Kingdom]

Dead Dad 21 is a limited edition run, in Landscape, this one 7 of a limited edition of 20

The addition of colour centralises the Mickey Mouse and Dead Dad Subject again Typical Anti conformist with Cautys popular subversive Mickey Mouse

From experimental sonic weapons (the Advanced Acoustic Armaments), to anti-Iraq war postage stamps (Stamps of Mass Destruction), and model making (Riot In A Jam Jar and the Aftermath Dislocation Principle) Cautys work combines dissent, cultural subversion and gleeful level of high humour. His roguish and voluble approach has earned him a cult following for work that remains radical, responsive and darkly comical.  
He produces work that draws on and responds to contemporary culture, sampling it and selling it back as recoded realities. In 2013 Cauty completed The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP), a vast 1:87 scale-model landscape (equivalent to 1 sq. mile in miniature) which has been completely looted, destroyed, burnt and is devoid of life apart from 3000 or so model police that attend this apocalyptic aftermath. In 2015 the ADP was installed in Banksys Dismaland in Weston Super Mare.