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Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
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Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas
Michael Pybus, Ethical slut, Painting on canvas

Ethical slut, 2025
Michael Pybus

Painting : acrylic

180 x 180 x 2.5 cm 70.9 x 70.9 x 1 inch

€9,500 9 500 €

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Signature

Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: acrylic

Dimensions cm • inch

180 x 180 x 2.5 cm 70.9 x 70.9 x 1 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

Not framed

Tags

Pop Art

figurative

Status of Women

Women

LGBTQ

Society

Green

Pink

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Artwork location: France

(The third photo was taken with UV light illumination)

As hung: 185 x 185 cm (Height x Width)
(This is a square canvas measuring 130 x 130 cm)

In this brightly colored visual satire, Michael Pybus highlights the contradictions of the globalized art world. Against the backdrop of "Art Basel Qatar," queer and activist figures pose joyfully, draped in progressive slogans—in a context where such identities would otherwise be censored or repressed.

Blending internet culture, aesthetics, and distorted political iconography, Pybus humorously highlights the instrumentalization of social struggles by the art market. The title and the dripping LGBTQ+ flag accentuate this discrepancy: when activism becomes a posture, and resistance a simple aesthetic.

Michael Pybus has created a work that is both hilarious and disturbing—a colorful political satire that reveals the tension between image and intention, between marketing and ideals, between exhibition space and proclaimed values. Through this joyful visual chaos, Pybus poses a crucial question:
To what extent can contemporary art accommodate the very contradictions it claims to denounce?

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Michael Pybus
Michael Pybus
United Kingdom  • 1982

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Michael Pybus (born 1982 in Darlington, UK) subverts the codes of contemporary visual culture with biting acuity. Trained at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art in London, he develops a polymorphous practice in which painting, sculpture, and installation seize upon symbols of globalized consumerism, pop franchises, and identity narratives.

Crossing Pikachu and IKEA, Barbie and Lucio Fontana's scars, activist slogans and digital stuffed animals, Pybus constructs a saturated, joyfully toxic visual language, where references to art history are invited without hierarchy: Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, Josh Smith, David Hockney and even Warhol blend into a landscape of remixed mainstream culture.

Through this aesthetic of assumed pastiche, he questions the role of the image in a filtered world, where authenticity becomes simulacrum and where even contemporary art becomes merchandise. He manipulates, deconstructs, fetishizes, to better reveal the tensions between individuality and spectacle, between commitment and strategy, between citation and appropriation.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Shanghai, and Tokyo. It is featured in numerous public and private collections, including:
Arts Council Collection (UK), Takashi Murakami Collection (Japan), Zabludowicz Collection (UK), Philippos Tsangrides Collection (Greece), Popov Collection (Russia)… as well as in private collections in the United States, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Canada, Australia, China, and many others.

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