“I’m a movie lover, and the illusion of cinema is all part of the fun. However, I’m also a lover of Hollywood the place, the landscape, its culture. I like the physicality of my city, its surfaces, textures and patina...I like the idea of presenting scenic painting in the flesh, directly to the viewer, inverting its position from cinematic illusion to physical, Hollywood thing”
- Alex Israel

Ed Ruscha, The Back of Hollywood, 1977
Private Collection
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