One of the sculptures he made in Weybridge, where he moved after the war.Īmong the specs are its weight: 44,000 lbs.ĭavid Zwirner’s just up the road from Dover Street Market. The beginning of a chapter on Decadence And Culture. There’s a copy of it by the front desk that you can flick through. There he showed pieces by Picasso and Kurt Schwitters alongside his own work.īilbo once self-published his autobiography. “Women expecting triplets, returning home from the cinema”.ĭuring the Blitz, Bilbo opened The Modern Art Gallery in St James’s. “Close neighbours who cannot meet, even when they pass in the street”. Hence the obsession with women’s backsides. The First Forty Years of the Complete and Intimate Life Story of the Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveller, and a Modern. The curator Rodolphe von Hoffmannsthal says that he first became aware of Bilbo’s work last November, when the amazing Aaron Angell exhibited his work alongside Bilbo in Glasgow at SWG3. “A stroke of the pen, a rubber stamp – decide who shall be homeless.” It reads: “Five politicians trying to get the vote of the village idiot”. The state itself has neither heart nor conscience, not sense of humour.” An exhibition of the eccentric, bohemian artist Jack Bilbo, Al Capones one time body guard, arrives at the New York Gallery David Zwirners London address. It reads: “The State is a heartless machine, yet it holds your heart in its destructive hands. It reads: “Death knows no frontiers, races, classes, or religions – Death is impartial – why not life?”

It reads “Anything to be original”, say the Boheemohomians (The He-Shees) It reads “I don’t like private capitalism, I don’t like state capitalism – I do like my own capitalism.” Self taught, his work is of humour, sex and morality. David Zwirner in London has just opened a show by the little known artist Jack Bilbo.īilbo was born in Berlin in 1907, fleeing the Nazis in the 30s and settling in London in 1936.

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