ICONS A Directory of Canonisations around the Turn of the Millennium Has stock in Germany created as personal gifts

created as personal gifts

In the Blue Tape

The date 1955 is written on the back of another drawing

the image actually documents the mundane catastrophe of a broken relationship

ICONS A Directory of Canonisations around the Turn of the Millennium Has stock in Germany created as personal giftsSince the late 1990s David Diehls work has explored the sociopolitical implications of pop culture phenomena and their specific para religious function. ICONS tells the story of a series of over seventy paintings (2013 2020) that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football. Scrates, Zidane, Andrs Escobar Each haloed portrait tells a story of its own, but the fate of Diehls over the top