Ringier AGAnnual Report 2005Richard Prince Jokes and Cartoons

Ringier AGAnnual Report 2005

“Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine. Especially magazineslike the New Yorker or Playboy. They’re right up there with the editorial and advertisements and table of contents and letters to the editors. They’re part of the layout, part of the ‘sights’ and ‘gags’. Sometimes they’re political, sometimes they just make fun of everyday life. Once in awhile they drive people to protest and storm foreign embassies and kill people”. Richard Prince

Born in 1949, Richard Prince has been among the most influential voices in art inthe United States and the world since the 1980s. He works with photos and othermaterial taken from advertisements, magazines and books. Examples are repeatedborrowing of the Marlborough Man as well as his Jokes series, always based on the same old jokes. Prince’s work feeds on social clichés and the actions andexpectations engendered by the cultural mainstream, which he exposes in hispaintings, photographs and installations. Beatrix Ruf, Curator