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
art artist obsession
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
church aesthetics
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
spiritual church reason
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
believe icons
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
photography use way
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
grooming personal-grooming
My work is intensely personal.
hate vices vice-versa
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
catholic obsession my-own
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
smart thinking someday
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
art looks provocative
There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
thinking certainty-in-life normal
I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.
artist civilization triumph
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
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.
trying direct
I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.