Say what you like about Donald Trump: there’s no denying that the perma-tanned US president is serving fuel for some of the most potent political satire to date. Take Eric Yahnker’s recent show at Art Brussels which saw the LA-based artist – whose subversive take on pop culture landed him the cover of our A/W 2015 issue of Printed Pages – flipping the buzzphrase “Alternative Facts” into “Alternative Fiction”. Playing with the visual world of cheesy late ‘80s and early ‘90s poster art, Eric’s new work includes a portrait of Barack Obama with an unreal sunset reflected in the mirrored lens of his sunglasses, a black-and-white headshot of a crestfallen George Michael with the words “I’m Too Sad to Tell You” scrawled signature-like across the bottom and a reworking of the instantly recognisable cover of J. D. Salinger’s coming-of-age novel Catcher in the Rye into a now equally-recognisable slogan: Grab Her by the Pussy.
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