Having in common
a graffiti background the artists have all been able to elevate and evolve their work to a new point of reference in this show.
Not exact matches
Their decks featured artworks by Damien Hirst, an edition considered to be one of the most valuable and coveted Supreme releases to date; Ryan McGuinnes with the collection of Pantone decks; the street
artist KAWS; the visual
artist,
graffiti writer, performance
artist musician and sculptor Rammellzee; the
artist Dan Colen with the edition featuring imagery of Nike sneakers and chains; the Russian conceptual
artist Andrei Molodkin; the graphic designer Peter Saville with iconic pulsar waves featured on a Joy Division album artwork; the director Larry Clark most famous for his cult film «Kids»; Neo-Pop
artist and 80s icon Jeff Koons with the variety of monkey imagery with surreal
backgrounds; Richard Prince; world - renowned Japanese
artist Takashi Murakami; Marilyn Minter; George Condo; John Baldessari; Robert Longo; Raymond Pettibon; and many many more.
The gallery
artists that will be featured in the show — Remi Rough, Augustine Kofie, LX.One, and Poesia — not only share their
graffiti background but also their fascination for Abstraction.
Since its opening, the gallery has hosted
artists from diverse
backgrounds such as
graffiti, drawing, art installations, video and digital painting.
Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and
graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a
background as a
graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the
artist himself explains: «I fuse my
graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»
Each
artist comes from a
background in
graffiti but the diverse works reveal many directions into which these roots can evolve.
The group show, «Rudimentary Perfection», is a collection of great
artists who share
backgrounds in
graffiti, including Augustine Kofie, -LSB-...]
French
graffiti artist JR first came to prominence when one of his pieces of «pervasive art» — large photo - prints he hangs or pastes around the streets — appeared in the
background of footage from the 2005 Paris riots.
L.A.
artist Gajin Fujita made a 16 - foot - long painting with a gold leaf
background that's layered with spray - painted
graffiti tags by his former crew members and friends.
The painting in the
background was created by the Rio Grande Valley
Artists and features a
graffiti - like style.