Andres Serrano, 'America (Ken Kox, Sadomasochist)', 2002, SER2006BLE, Cibachrome, silicone, plexiglas, woodframe, cm 152,40 x 125,73, No. 2 from an edition of 3, Signed and noted by the artist.
Andres Serrano was born in New York in 1950. After graduating from the Brooklyn Museum of Art School, he started his activity as a photographer in the 80s. At the beginning of his carrier he soon started a kind of photography really provocative. His images were implicit questions about the freedom of speech in art. His photographs speak about fundamental themes of contemporary age: sex, religion and racism. First works depicted bloody meat and soon Serrano created monochromatic images made of blood, urine and milk: symbols of life. In 1990 Serrano began taking portraits in real scale. His first series Nomads looks more real than reality itself. In 1992 Serrano did the series The Morgue, big sized chibacrome representing close-up of corpses in a neutral context. With A History of Sex (1996) Serrano explores sexual identity of every kind of people but always with a sort of detachment. In 1998 he developed the series Bodybuilders, and in 2001 he did the series The Interpretation of Dreams, showing the word of the unconscious. After September 11th World Trade Center disaster, he started a new series, still in progress, called America: a gallery of portraits which perfectly illustrates the multiple layers of American society today. Andres Serrano lives and works in New York.