, Taka Ishii Gallery, 2002 hardcover, 62 pages, Illustrated.
A trip to Currin-land is like a science-fiction movie, in which familiar things - Old Master works by Bruegel and Courbet, the Rococo idylls of Boucher and Fragonard, girly photos from 10960s men's magazines and cheerful ads for wholesome American products - are transformed into figurative paintings that border on the freakish. In John Currin's universe, everythings looks both commonplace and fantastic, like Norman Rockwell paintings as seen through a fun-house mirror.