Take a Bath in the Multitude Adjust your Soul with Every Step
About this artwork
This print, made during a 3-month residency at Location 1, Manhattan, is part of a series inspired by early Modernist thinkers. Two statements by different writers, commenting on the complexities of metropolitan life, are combined. In his 1869 prose poem ‘Les Foules’ (Crowds), Baudelaire claimed that, ‘It is not given to everyone to take a bath in the multitude: to enjoy the crowd is an art’. In Rousseau’s romantic novel ‘Julie, or the New Heloise’, 1761, a young hero writes about a fast-paced city life where one must ‘adjust his spirit with every step.’ Hunter uses bright, graphic colours and crisp texts which echo designs from the Modernist era. Hunter explains his selection of text for this series: ‘I liked things that were a bit like instructions, but not very strident, more poetic’.
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artist:Kenny Hunter (born 1962) Scottish
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title:Take a Bath in the Multitude Adjust your Soul with Every Step
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date created:2007
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:75.30 x 54.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2008
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accession number:GMA 5006
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Kenny Hunter
Kenny Hunter
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Sculptor Kenny Hunter studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983 to 1987. His work is heavily influenced by plastic toys, in the colours and flawless finish he uses for his sculptures. Hunter sees this as related to classical sculptors who worked with marble until no...