Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano
Andres Serranois an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth15 August 1950
CountryUnited States of America
american-photographer compared images klan people
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
american-photographer
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
american-photographer functions work
My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
american-photographer hard issues
Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
american-photographer people
People have to find ways of explaining the work.
people able limits
I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.
trying direct
I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.
religious appreciate church
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.
smart thinking someday
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
catholic obsession my-own
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
artist civilization triumph
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
hate vices vice-versa
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
grooming personal-grooming
My work is intensely personal.
photography use way
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.