Antoine Bernhart returns with a new army of skeletons and other infernal creatures to populate his intimate theater of cruelty.
Nearly 15 years after his Skull Skool series, Antoine Bernhart returns with Johnny Skull and his brand new skeleton army. But wait, there's more, much more. The cast of Antoine's intimate theatre of cruelty features a priapic Elvis, disturbing Wild Ones, sleazy folk bands, fiendish cowboys, shibari masters at their best, an extra-lustful Bettie Page, dead and undead famous rock'n'rollers including the ones Antoine worked for (The Meteors, Tall Boys, The Cramps…).
The sick and sexy dark ink from Antoine Bernhart will inevitably cast a spell on you.
Foreword by Nick Garrard of Psychobilly scene fame.
Antoine Bernhart (born 1950) is a French drawing artist. A member of the neo-surrealist group Phases from 1968, he was excluded a few years later on the grounds that his pornography was too extreme. Antoine Bernhart then moved into alternative spheres to official art and its institutions, and joined a vast network of artists from the counter-culture, particularly the punk movement, producing posters and flyers for psychobilly bands such as the Cramps and The Meteor. He developed a radical, highly idiosyncratic body of work, painting scenes of sexual crime transposed into a theater of abuse and cruelty, obscene and sadistic, grotesque, infernal and ecstatic, defying all prohibitions and conventions, which eventually earned him the paradoxical recognition of gallery owners and major museums.
