Beyond Symbols

Having found in Peres Projects a gallery he feels comfortable with when exhibiting his artwork without the impact that “evil architects who hate art,” as he explains, Mark Flood now presents his new exhibition, Battlefields, at the gallery in Milan. Since he began making silhouettes of monstrous human bodies in the late 1980s and after showing through painting a representation of the struggles going on in his country, the United States, the artist has not abandoned one of his central subjects, the pervasive symbology of American consumer culture. We speak to the artist about his new exhibition open until February 17, his early work, and how his perception of art has changed.