Eric Lobbecke | Depouiller - To Strip Off
Visiting any Sydney beach on a summer's day can be a great social leveller. A media mogul can be frolicking in the water or slapping on sunscreen alongside Joe the plumber, but everyone is indistinguishable in their Speedos or board shorts. In this context, artist Eric Lobbecke has been driven to ritually disrobe people in his current suite of paintings, drawings, and prints. A cartoonist by trade, Lobbecke has sketched powerful businessmen and politicians in the public eye for twenty years.
The corpulent, larger than life...
more
