Raymond Pettibon

Based in California, US-artist Raymond Pettibon is one of the most thorough chronicllers of American millieus of popular culture. A Goya our times, whose „Desastress“ depict less the wars actually waged than the confrontations taking place inside people’s heads, the battles between youth culture, and the cops-’n‘-robbers gamestransfixed into durable and quotable shape in the repertoire of images provided by film noir. „Los Angeles spread itself out before me. I used a gun to get in.“