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A Practical Guide to Intelligent Design |
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by Peter Rapp A hand bound book containing ten pigment prints of original drawings and etchings on Somerset book paper, with corresponding poster fold out dust-jacket and ribbon divider. Influenced by his own struggles with his Catholic upbringing, Rapp offers a personal perspective on the rift between the historic ideal and the lived reality of man’s isolation; an emotional and physical schism formed by the weight of guilt and conscience colliding with the disappointments of modern life. Peter Rapp exhibited eight etchings and launched A Practical Guide to Intelligent Design at KALEID in November 2009. Photography Alessandra ChiláFLASH Review Redchurch Idler The bad acid imagery of Peter Rapp’s Intelligent Design would normally belong in a zine, its mutant cartoon figures parading across Old Testament wallpaper in a post-apocalyptic narrative: the return of the devils of Loudun, an outbreak of St.Anthony’s fire, the studio disjecta of Hieronymous Bosch, a believer’s detox session? Its black cloth binding suggests a prayer book or catechism, but the scary endpapers and brand of genetically modified religion soon upset the reader’s quest for solace, Rapp’s fastidious production values exemplified by inkjet printing on Somerset archival rag, quite at odds with the guide’s trashy content. |
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