CLINT ENNS - Hunting Trophies

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Hunting Trophies

A room like a nightmare: Animal bodies cling to the walls, half-skinned, grotesquely arranged, as if they had lost their grip on gravity at the moment of death. On the floor—a man, motionless, perhaps asleep, perhaps defeated. Next to him, another, holding a skin in one hand, a pistol in the other—the ultimate hunter without prey.

Clint Enns' Hunting Trophies is a painting about power, violence, and the need to leave a mark—at the expense of other living beings. But the scene tips into the absurd: Instead of heroic hunting trophies, we see a battlefield of the banal, a parody of the old hunting paintings that staged fame and masculinity.

The AI ​​isn't staging a monument here, but a caricature. The question remains: Who is the real trophy—the animals, the men, or the idea that killing confers prestige?