Courtesy of the artistI was interested in hearing how Piers Secunda got access to war zones to create the work in “ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings,” an exhibition that closes on May 6 at Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in New York. But it made sense that as an artist, Secunda wanted to talk about his process. Each work consists of a cast made by Secunda of a Victorian cast of an Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, or medieval European relief at the British Museum. A sense, but not the real picture, because Secunda did not travel to any archaeological sites, such as Nimrod or Nineveh, that have been desecrated by ISIS. “The point of interest in ISIS is the industrial scale of the damage they are carrying out,” he told me.

Source: Forbes April 27, 2017 13:52 UTC