Denzil Forrester features in 'No Such Thing as Society 1980–1990'
Denzil Forrester features in 'No Such Thing as Society 1980–1990' as part of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.
On display is Forrester’s monumental painting 'Three Wicked Men' (1982). The painting’s title is taken from a reggae track that that refers to the policeman, the politician and the businessman and ‘all the badness they do in the world’. In the artwork, a man is flanked by two policemen, their presence draining colour from the scene around them.
Forrester juxtaposes themes of social injustice with vivid recollections of his childhood. Peter Doig notes that these “dreamlike” works “emerge as much from [the artist’s] imagination as from his studies of real life” and possess “a subtlety and form that has perhaps come about because he is reflecting upon his past."
