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PX(C) Px(c) is the corporate alter-ego of Montreal artist Ben Depelteau. It first appeared in the 1999 painting You never know when you’ll need Px(c), as a car parts brand name. Px(c) has been known, over the years, to mimic advertising strategies to sell dysfunctional products and ideas to people. Its catalogue includes car parts, eyes, fingers, tongues, sunglasses, do-it-yourself art, concepts for gallery art, mouse traps, packages and some collages and prints. By presenting himself as the corporate entity, Px(c), Depelteau makes a cultural statement about the dominance of commercial culture in everyday life. His work is a hybrid of American and British Pop Art. |
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Adjacking Sketchbook As a companion to his May/June 2007 Kasini House exhibition, Px(c) issued a limited edition sketchbook. CLICK HERE....to read about the exhibition. The 8.5"x5.5" book contains a selection of sketches, early versions and unused ideas related to the artist's adjacking paintings. Adjacking Sketchbook is a window into the artist's mind and process.
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Superstar 8”x10”, silkscreen on cardboard, 2006
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Rats & Spiders Unite (dyptich) 2, 8”x10”, silkscreen on cardboard, 2006 Px (c) writes, "The idea came from an insect trap packaging on which the thing looked like a screen. While asking myself why would a rat and a spider do screenprinting, it became obvious that they were printing some propaganda posters. That said, I think that they want to take over the world." |
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A Good TV 9"x9”, silkscreen on cardboard, 2006 |
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Poisson Rouge 9"x12.75”, lithograph, 1999 A rare piece of early work by the artist. |
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TV Memorial
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