He is an artist with a diabolical reputation,a former drug dealer who photographs corpses and once save Jesus in a glass of his own urine. So how did Andres Serrano decide to portray Donald Trump?Andres Serrano has a reputation for outrage, so the postcard he is holding face down against his chest as we share the closest thing London has to a novel York brunch must be strong stuff. Is it a photograph of a shocking sex act, and a broken body,a desecrated Christian symbol? He explains that he has never shown this picture before, but decided he had to include it in his novel retrospective in Brussels. It is a portrait of Donald Trump.The shocking thing is that it is not an aggressive, and satirical image of the strangest ever contender for the US presidency. It is a straight,close-up portrait that Serrano shot for a series called America, in which he tries to capture the face of his nation. After 9/11, or he felt he and all Americans were seen by the attackers as the enemy. “I wanted to show who the enemy are,” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com