Bosco Cooper Giclée Print
gicleé print, 44x17”
edition of 80
signed, numbered, and embossed
My most ambitious work to date- I talk about it in my monograph, “Pillowy, the Art of Dave”:
“At the moment (March 2019) I’m working on a single piece for a long period. It’s the largest piece I’ve made- for the amazing Madrid-based museum Coleccion Solo. They asked me to make a thirteen foot wide tribute to Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Of course I love Bosch, but I never like copying artists. David and Pablo at Coleccion Solo totally understood that so I set out to make something that wouldn’t even be recognizable as a tribute. It’s always really exciting and challenging to make big pieces, and for this one I wanted it to be really over the top. I actually spent three months just doodling, imagining a new world of mythological creatures and animals, and curvy ladies, and muscle men. It was like I was creating a huge cast of characters. It was such a great challenge to fill up a huge landscape with all those weirdos. I even cast myself in the role of God, and drew a likeness of Bosch as Adam. Once I was done with the final sketch I nervously sent it off to David and Pablo, thinking maybe they’d think it was too bizarro. They loved everything…except me and Bosch, they didn’t feel like it matched all the insanity of the rest of the drawing. I thought that was hilarious, and of course they were absolutely right. So instead, I made Adam a horny-looking wolf, and for God I offered two designs- a white, luminous tape worm, or a beast with two erect dicks, both with an eyeball on the end. They chose the latter.”
