In 2013, 4me4you visited Pertwee Anderson & Gold Gallery to see Darren Coffield’s exhibition, Masters of Reality.
MY PROCESS
Coffield’s portraits playfully twist the familiar: eyes appear on chins, mouths hover under brows, and well-known faces, from Marilyn Monroe and Kate Middleton to Harry Styles and even Hitler, become at once recognisable and delightfully absurd.
‘Masters of Reality’.
By exploring celebrity, identity, and perception, Coffield unsettles our instinctive recognition, creating some of the most provocative and engaging portraits in recent years.
In a world where faces are constantly celebrated, commodified, and manipulated, through surveillance systems, digital media, and advertising..
Masters of Reality invites us to rethink the meaning of facial features in contemporary culture, showing just how much our perception of identity can be constructed, warped, and reimagined.