Piers Secunda’s Taliban Relief Paintings were featured in The Independent in November 2011.
English artist Piers Secunda talks about his unique approach of casting paint to ‘force painting into a sculptural realm’. He describes convincing Chinese soldiers to shoot machine guns at sheets of paint to apply texture. His recent decision to apply ‘geo-political texture’ to his work led him to Afghanistan, where he made a ‘record of the physical manifestations of the Taliban’s activities’ by casting bullet holes left by fire fights.