{"id":26618,"date":"2025-07-28T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/?post_type=product&#038;p=26618"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:28:22","slug":"mike-kelley-master-dik-1989","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/product\/mike-kelley-master-dik-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Kelley &#8211; Master Dik\u2028, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Kelley\u2019s <em>Pansy Metal\/Clovered Hoof<\/em> (1989) is a series of twelve oversized silk banners. The imagery resembles crude, provocative doodles \u2014 the kind scribbled in the margins of school notebooks, carved into desks, or scrawled on bathroom walls. But here, they\u2019re blown up to the scale of gymnasium banners, as if the school\u2019s outsiders had claimed the walls to proudly display the symbols of their counterculture. Rendered in a limited palette of black, white, red, and green, the banners stage a chaotic mash-up of Irish clovers, male genitalia, skulls, and grotesque portraiture.<\/p>\n<p>One banner features a swastika, stripped of its menace by the absurd addition of clovers and phalluses to its tips \u2014 a clear act of ridicule. The series also parodies the visual tropes of heavy metal culture, with its fascination for skulls, devils, and dark symbolism. Kelley takes particular aim at Mot\u00f6rhead, mocking their dramatic use of umlauts by inserting one into his own name on a banner featuring a devil\u2019s mask. At once juvenile, pointed, and theatrical, <em>Pansy Metal\/Clovered Hoof<\/em> confronts the rituals and aesthetics of subculture with both affection and biting critique.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pansy Metal\/Clovered Hoof<\/em> was originally conceived of as costumes for a performance in collaboration with choreographer \/ dancer Anita Pace and performed on a fashion show-style ramp to music by Mot\u00f6rhead. The performance was later restaged in 2012 at the openings of the Mike Kelley retrospective at MOCA, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, New York; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Kelley&#8217;s <em>Master Dik<\/em> is currently on view as part of <em>On Becoming<\/em> &#8211; our first show at Cabanon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note this is a historic artwork. There are some small remarks concerning its condition. Request a condition report <a href=\"mailto:info@artlead.net\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenprint on silk<\/p>\n<p>134,62 x 96,52 cm<\/p>\n<p>Edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26577,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-26618","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-uncategorised","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/26618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=26618"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=26618"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlead.net\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=26618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}