Artist Jolyon Fenwick launches Virus Classics, Penguin books reimagined for age of Covid
Jolyon Fenwick (1971-), Virus Classics (2020) Covers Sculpture (detail). Sculpture of 21 volumes. Edition of the 30. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Framed in tulip wood with museum glass, 73.5cm x 104.5cm in the frame.
LONDON
.- Virus Classics, a collection of sculptures and prints, is a sharply humorous response to the current state of affairs by artist, photographer and historian Jolyon Fenwick. Through this new collection he has created a lightly-satirical, black-humoured and, with luck, soon hugely nostalgic - graphic record of these extraordinary times.
Twenty-one spoof volumes, each mimicking the size and style of the paperbacks of The Penguin English Library, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, take some of our most treasured literary classics and give them a topical spin. Title plate and logo debossed, the artworks feel both hearteningly familiar and laden with sat