Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, presents a new series of work by Richard Prince. This new series of sculptural assemblages was born out of Prince's avid book collecting.
For many years Richard Prince's extensive collection of rare books has inspired his work, most notable the Nurse paintings. The chair above is the Nurse Hat Chair. The chair is an edition of 7, designed by Richard Prince, and based on a nurse's white hat, appropriating his own icon from the series of Nurse paintings. Now, there's certainly nothing new about the fetishization of nurses. The naughty nurse is one of those deeply ingrained stereotypes that just keeps surfacing—on soap operas, on Halloween, in the pages of glossy fashion magazines.
The chair reminded me of something and as I scratched my head to figure out what it was Balenciaga's Spring 2008 popped in my mind. Perhaps the idea of purity is so sexy because it triggers one imagination -in the exact opposite direction. Prince and Ghasquieres seem to agree on this one.
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