The Connor Brothers | Celebrity is a Mask

The Connor Brothers
Celebrity is a Mask
Limited edition

Celebrity is a Mask arrives with the full weight of contemporary culture's ongoing crisis of authenticity. The Connor Brothers — who spent years maintaining a fictional identity as discovered outsider artists before revealing their real backgrounds — have particular authority to make this statement. Their entire early career was itself a kind of mask, a performance of authenticity that was simultaneously an investigation of how authenticity functions in the art market.

The vintage pulp fiction format gives the phrase the authority of received wisdom — the kind of thing that appears on a paperback cover as a tagline, that makes you pick up the book, that you remember long after you've forgotten the plot. For collectors in Berkshire, Surrey, and London who want a Connor Brothers work with particular conceptual depth, Celebrity is a Mask is among their most resonant statements. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot.

Limited edition
Certificate of Authenticity