The cover of El Museo de las Cabezas, one of my many visual journals. Originally, when I began this in 2006, I was going to call it Brain's Big Enough and the theme was going to be the brain. Brain's Big enough transformed in to an exhibition of paintings that was called I Am Joe's Brain in 2009. So until 2010, Brain's Big Enough laid in a pile of journals that I decided to save until later.
In the fall of 2010, there was an exhibition of sculpture by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt at Neue Galerie, link here http://www.neuegalerie.org/exhibitions/messerschmidt I've been rather obsessed with Franz Xaver Messerscmidt since 1978, when I found him referred to in a book on Gustav Klimt. So I spent a lot of time in the fall of 2010 and the winter of 2011 sketching his "character heads" and day dreaming about them.
Originally, I was going to call this journal The Facebook but I realized that there really is too much Facebook permeating the world. So, El Museo de las Cabezas was born.
Tlingit helmet mask and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
Eventually, Franz Zaver Messerschmidt left Neue Galerie and in the summer of 2011, Nancy Grossman arrived at PS 1 MOMA, link here http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/333
Their relationship to each other seems obvious. After all, my brain's big enough.
Nancy Grossman's head and Lord Pacal.
Eventually, I had to finish the book with various sundry other heads. There is a book called El Museo de las Cabezas, Volume Two, but I'm still working on it.
The back cover.
