Andres Serrano's latest exhibition, “The Game: All Things Trump,' opens April 11 in Manhattan. It features more than 1,000 objects associated with the president.
Andres Serrano's portrait of Trump, left, from his 2004 America series will be a focal point of his upcoming show about the president. Serrano has often drawn controversy, notably for his 1987"Piss Christ," right. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 2 at 5:03 AM Andres Serrano has been quietly stockpiling buttons, baked goods, liquor bottles, slot machines, sports memorabilia, menswear and magazine covers.
The untraditional presidential portrait is set to be revealed April 11 at a still-undisclosed location in Manhattan. The show’s title is drawn from “Trump: The Game,” a 1989 board game released by Milton Bradley Co., with the tagline, “It’s not whether you win or lose, but whether you win!” Andres Serrano has photographed murder victims, homeless people, Ku Klux Klan members and a crucifix submerged in his own urine. His latest show is all about the 45th president, a man he refuses to condemn. The Trump-branded commodities, the artist believes, are an index of the president’s beliefs and aspirations. In Serrano’s eyes, they reveal how Trump’s quest to identify himself with the country — to cast himself as an American hero — began long before he undertook a bid to lead it.
“I’m worried about what will happen with what I created,” he said in an interview with The Post at the time. — Newsweek March 2, 2019 The exhibition neither glorifies nor condemns the president. Serrano, who first photographed Trump for his 2004 “America” series, doesn’t pass moral judgment on his subject.
“He seemed pretty good, and so I felt like just out of loyalty to the race, I had to support this black president,” Serrano said. The possibility of another breakthrough in 2020 — the first female president, the first black female president, the first openly gay president — wouldn’t motivate him in the same way, he said.“I think he’s Donald Trump, and that says it all,” Serrano observed. “It says that he’s always been good at selling things, particularly himself. And he’s done it once again.
Meanwhile, viewers will find in the objects figments of their previous connections to Trump — whether they watched him on “The Apprentice,” gambled at his casinos, bought his vodka or even went to Trump University. They are part of his rise, Serrano said.
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