Artist Info
Name: Kenneth Cockwhore
Age: 26
Location: Copenhagen,Denmark
Artist Kenneth Cockwhore is not shy to cut Puritans or the thin-skinned to the quick. Actively involved in the queer scene in Copenhagen
Mr. Cockwhoree’s works centres around ideas of gender identity, questioning contemporary social norms and private-public boundaries. His videos and graphic work include queer slogans, elements of vintage gay-porn as well as portraits of homo-idols and close friends. Smutty acts and pubic areas seem not to be overly celebrated as such.
His statement seems more to be related to the idea that scenes of obscenity (when visually manipulated) can be entrancingly aesthetic and surprisingly sensual.
Cockwhore says, “I don’t really seek to find anything more than to show the beast and coarse uncontrollable lust within the human and to transform the human body into something else.”
In his Forever and Trust series of manipulated black and white photographs (created for the Poppers & Darkroom Bus during the 2010 Distortion Festival in Copenhagen) male, female and cross-gendered genetallia are mirrored, and rotated turning them into abstracted kaleidoscope-like images.
In a hyper-sexualized culture where images of close-up orifices are considered (nonetheless) ‘too much’ Cockwhore manages to turn taboo into a positively pornographic vision, one that is not hard to swallow.
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//Exhibitions:
Upcoming:
Solo Exhibition @ Gallery Vess
Copenhagen June 22-29 - 2012
Past
Movies showed @ Neon Raiders
Berlin 2011
Pics & Movies @ Act Art (group show)
London 2010
Hotel27 - Groupshow
Copenhagen 2009
Urban Meltdown Exhibition Group show
Copenhagen - 2009
//Published Works
A-Man-Da Postcard
For Go Card Denmark - 2010
"Youth" published in danish book
"Generation Kan Selv" 2010
Hetrosexualisme Postcard
For Go-Card Denmark - 2008
//Other:
Portrait of Kenneth
in the tribute exhibition to John Galliano
by by A. Naselli - 2011
Portrait of Kenneth
In The Exhibition "The Portrait Project" by photographer J.Jackie Baier - 2009
Interview with danish radio p1 - 2009
Interview in Byens Puls Magazine 2010
Portrait of Kenneth
in the exhibition "Twisted Bend Curved"
by Meisterbrau & Hairwerk - 2010
