 From the Montreal Mirror's Matthew Woodley: Published in the Arts Week section:
Heat-packin' pigs, two-headed ducks, mutants and the like are Richard Suicide's weapons of choice these days. Briefly trading pen for brush, the artist (whose illustrations often appear in these pages) opens his Cinquante cinq raisons pour poser des bombes on Monday, Nov. 17, with an explosive 5 à 7 at the Cheval Blanc (809 Ontario E.).
Suicide's cheerfully cheeky style speaks to the four year old in us with a special grown-up twist. "I like to hook people with humour," he says, "but I'm constantly revolting against things that are going on. I didn't want to draw Charlton Heston, you know, so I drew Porky Pig with a gun. They're the same image to me."
The 55 acrylic paintings in Suicide's series, which will be displayed in comic-panel style, take on themes of war, power, chemicals in our food and other things that bug him. Ducks figure prominently. "I have a two-year-old daughter and there are little rubber duckies all over my house," he explains.
Cinquante cinq raisons shows until Dec. 14. In the meantime, Suicide is going back to comics and working on a book for French publisher Les Requins Marteaux.
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