{"product_id":"duncan-mcafee-summer-2025-framed-set-of-four","title":"Summer 2025 | Framed Set of Four","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hand-signed limited edition set by Duncan McAfee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his first ever collection of signed limited-edition artworks, Duncan McAfee introduces his gritty improvisational abstract style to personal, environmental and societal issues. Created as a response to collages of old photographs he crafted in his youth, Duncan McAfee considers it to be a collaboration with his younger self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an incredible sense of depth which mirrors the texture of his collages, the artworks are initially painted in layers, after which McAfee defaces his work, ‘ruining’ the paintings with blocks of dark colour or random markings before fixing the destruction with a new layer of paint – challenging himself to work as intuitively as possible. His uniquely improvisational technique fuels his signature sense of chaos and disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I try to get as much contradiction in as possible. They’re bright, fun and messy.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past, McAfee began each painting by throwing a glass of red wine at a blank canvas. Now, working with a longer lasting substrate he has created himself, McAfee uses the ‘wine’ as a finishing touch, honouring the roots of his creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking the motifs of his \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/duncan-mcafee\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eExploding Heads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e series a step further, McAfee creates a riotous and intense horde of domestic objects, body parts and facial features, representing modern day economic and political anxieties through a disorientating and distorted lens. Influenced by a wealth of sources, from the unsettling figurative artworks of Francis Bacon and George Condo to newspaper cartoons, the artist builds a sense of impending doom with his visceral images by drawing on his own anxieties and experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcAfee vehemently believes that it is impossible for him to set the meaning of the work. The viewer themselves, and the context in which they view the piece, completely alters the meaning – as McAfee says, “\u003cem\u003eit’s got nothing to do with the intentions of the artist\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis framed set includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/products\/duncan-mcafee-everything-is-ok\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEverything is Ok\u003c\/a\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/products\/duncan-mcafee-chatter\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eChatter\u003c\/a\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/products\/duncan-mcafee-palaver\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePalaver\u003c\/a\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/products\/duncan-mcafee-kerfuffle\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKerfuffle\u003c\/a\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out more about this collection \u003ca href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/duncan-mcafee-summer-2025\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e or alternatively shop more \u003ca href=\"www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/duncan-mcafee\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMcAfee art\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duncan McAfee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58110196810077,"sku":"DMA-SIL-HUM-37495","price":485900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/1906\/6461\/files\/DMASetof4.jpg?v=1753699702","url":"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/en-jp\/products\/duncan-mcafee-summer-2025-framed-set-of-four","provider":"Castle Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}