Never a dull moment at the Flying Pony Café and art emporium. This month’s artist is Anthony Marrelli and he has filled Andrew Horne’s walls with foodie, sexy surrealism.
Overacting girlies and guys have had their lusty faces clipped and pasted onto colourful freehand drawings of stylized bodies, not doing what they were doing in the skin mags they came from, but eating, drinking, smoking and talking on cellphones. The effect is very funny, but critical at the same time.
Bodies with human porno faces look especially ridiculous in the company of bodies with animal heads. Goats, rams, bears and wildcats often look intelligent, reserved and dignified, compared with silly, hedonistic humans.
The digs at self-absorbed, gratification-obsessed society are clear, but they are lighthearted, too. That owes partly to the loose, carefree rendering style. Marrelli has a lot of skill at drawing, but his work doesn’t look in the least laboured.
Andrew Horne figured people would either love or hate the show. Personally, I don’t see what’s to hate, unless people think the human figures are wearing religious garb. At at glance, many of the figures could seem to be wearing nuns’ habits or hijabs, I guess.