Rasher, born Mark Kavanagh, has come up with his own bottled idea of what Society in 2010 smells like and he has very kindly decided to create a perfume so that we too will never forget! Colin Farrell was once a collector of the artist's work, but will Colin be rushing out to collect Rasher's latest offering I wonder, and even more disturbingly to whom would Colin bestow such a pig scented gift too ?!
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‘SOCIETY STINKS. We live in a world tainted with corruption, bribery, terrorism, racism, sexism, genocide and abuse. The stench is unavoidable; yet we are conditioned to ignore it. Rasher thinks we should know.”
... putting the finishing touches to a foul-smelling potion that will be sold alongside the more conventional artworks in his upcoming exhibition, Womb to Tomb .
The name of this anti-perfume, this “pigfume”, is Stench of Society. So far the mixture contains cabbage leaves, Brussels sprouts, horse tail, Houttuynia plants, iris root and a few other secret ingredients he doesn’t want to mention “in case Britney Spears or someone else tries to steal my fragrance”.
His friends kept telling him that his work was too expensive so he wanted to create an affordable piece of art. The “pigfume” will come in a box signed by the artist with a limited-edition print of a painting that depicts Rasher and his wife Gillian, a stained-glass artist, as Beckhamesque perfume-obsessed characters. It will cost “around €150 or €200”.
In the image, Rasher is holding a pig in his arms, the pig is doing a wee and a heavily pregnant Gillian, as Posh, is clinging to his legs desperate to get her hands on the pig-wee potion.
He anticipates the fragrance will function as a neat party trick in years to come. “The idea is that 10 years from now, you’ll be having a dinner party and you’ll ask your guests ‘do you want to know what the world smelt like in 2010?’ then you will take down the bottle and give them a sniff,”