Centre d’édition contemporaine Geneva

From October 12 to November 18, 1995
Opening October 11, 1995

[…] Karen Kilimnik appropriates love affairs and escapades of media personalities: stars, supermodels and princesses, from Elizabeth Taylor to Michael Jackson via Caroline of Monaco or Kate Moss. […] She transposes her fascinations and schizophrenic fantasies that range between freshness, innocence and violence, the horror of thriller, the famous tragic event, whether the Manson family crimes, the murder of John Kennedy, the occupation of Paris … Some of its “decorations” overloaded with a multitude of objects and images seem to emerge from a disaster, close to the results of an action or a happening, remembering the hazard game of Fluxus or of art in progress. But this research for identity and the fascination for dated and glamor can switch very quickly into drama when Karen Kilimnik goes to spray with bullets her hanging just finished with a machine gun. The seven black and white lithographs are collected in a luxury and flashy box, covered with fake tiger fur and lined with shiny satin. This box contains seven subjects partially copied or inspired of celebrity pages of magazines. […] These lithographs, will find their readability thanks to a mirror slipped into a pocket crafted in the same fake fur than the box. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Karen Kilimnik, Tiger, 7 lithographs, black/white, on Velin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, white, 70 × 50 cm, one silkscreen print on Pop’set Californie 240 g/m2 paper, 35 × 49.5 cm, a plastic mirror and a plexiglas plate used as impressum, in a box covered in fake fur and lined with satin, 54 × 74 cm, edition of 10 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.