Andres Serrano

ANDRÉS SERRANO (New York, 1950).
"Pietá", from the series "Holy Works", 2012.
C-Print.
Edition of 50.
Hand signed and justified.
Measurements: 23,5 x 28 cm.

Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist considered one of the referents of transgressive art, as his pieces include photos of corpses and uses feces and body fluids. He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art, although he considers himself a self-taught photographer. He worked as an assistant art director at an advertising firm before creating his first body of work in 1983. Photographer Alex Harsley exhibited Serrano's work for the first time in New York at his Fourth Street Photo Gallery. Many of Serrano's paintings contain bodily fluids, such as blood (sometimes menstrual), semen (e.g., Blood and Semen II (1990) or breast milk. His work has been exhibited in various venues around the world, including the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, World without End (2001), and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, Body and soul.