CLINT ENNS - Rainbow Cowboy

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 – Rainbow Cowboy

A cowboy in the blazing dust, his horse tired, the saddle worn, and above it all—like an incongruous glimmer of hope—a rainbow. Clint Enns stages not the romantic Western here, but its fragile parody. The cowboy appears drained, almost lost, trapped in a pose that speaks more of exhaustion than triumph.

The rainbow cuts into the image as a garish symbol: promise, camp, queer undertones—or simply the absurd beauty that defies control. The "Rainbow Cowboy" is less a hero than a tragic figure from an American mythology that has long since crumbled to dust. This isn't about victory or freedom, but rather the grotesque spectacle of an image that betrays its own ideology.