Description
Fred George’s provocative “Vulcan Girls” series shows “off-planet women” in erotic poses against a trash background at a New York recycling center – satirically over-staged, over-colored, and oversized photographs of half-naked models in an exaggerated fashion extravaganza. They thematize the harsh struggle for survival of women immigrants from the Eastern Europe, who, without legal papers, become easy targets for their exploiters, as the title of the exhibition “Caught in the Crossfire” suggests.
Fred George, photographer, political artist, sculptor and musician, who also writes and produces films and videos, is seen as one of the few artists of our time, with his radically committed work, that is creating messages of global, political and humanitarian implications.
These ideas are resonated in an ever-evolving body of emotionally charged art.
Living in New York and Germany, Fred George sees himself as a “war photographer and sculptor” on the global battlefields of our time.
Scenes of the wars of religion, consumption, economic crises, and the struggle for the resources of oil and water are this artist’s pallets.