BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT

Dinner with Mark, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Dinner with Mark (2019) is a painting that depicts Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, holding a severed goats head on a wooden spike whilst giving a speech at a conference. In a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stated that there was a year when Zuckerberg was only eating what he was killing, and had a penchant for goat meat. Supposedly he would stun goats with a taser, cut their throat with a knife and have their bodies sent to a butcher to prepare. Being served goat for dinner whilst attending a dinner party at Zuckerberg’s house was Dorsey’s most memorable encounter with Zuckerberg.

The work marked the beginning of the Trophy Hunter series.

Dinner with Mark has been included in the following exhibitions:

– Trust Is The Ultimate Currency, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight. At Harlesden High Street, London, UK, 22nd February – 13th April 2019.

Dinner with Mark is part of a private collection in the UK.