Living in a Hearse
Richard Hoeck /John Miller
2009
plastic mannequin, clothing, acrylic paint, height: 112 cm
Richard Hoeck and John Miller’s collaborative work Living in a Hearse (2009), grew out of a previous piece, He Went to Live in a Cave until He Got Back on His Feet (2009), that the artists produced for Robert Nickas‘ show Cave Painting at Berlin’s PSM Galerie. The artists based both works on child mannequins. And the „outlaw“ country singer David Allan Coe inspired both too. After Coe fell behind on his income tax payments, he lived in a cave, hiding from Internal Revenue Service agents. After that, he lived in a hearse. Both pieces also feature chest tattoos based on cave paintings at Lascaux. Finally, both mannequin boys are styled as bikers because often David Allan Coe would kick off his set by riding a Harley Davidson onto the stage.
