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AARON ROSE: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A BEAUTIFUL LOSER

Aaron Rose sits down with Gestalten.tv for an interview encompassing his many views on art, anarchy, and the art world as a whole, discussing some of the more diverse opinions that have defined his shotgun effect on the world of creativity. Having worked in street art, curation, film, photography, writing, music, and many other fields, Rose is addicted to creation. The artist is also addicted to talking art with friends and strangers, as anyone who has run into him at openings and art receptions around the city and the world can tell you.

One of the more inspiring artists to come out of the street art movement, the man who introduced Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, and Harmony Korine is a blast to hear every time he speaks on his passions. 

Aaron Rose is one of my favorite people in the art world. 

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SHEPARD FAIREY ON KEITH HARING FOR OBEY FALL 2012 LINE

In a Summer season that has seen much tolerance awareness in the world of street fashion, Shepard Fairey’s OBEY Clothing has teamed up with the Keith Haring Foundation to create a line of clothing that celebrates the artist’s work. While by no means about the artist’s lifestyle, Haring’s foundation exists for the purpose of spreading AIDS awareness, a disease that plagued the artist until his untimely death, wrongfully affecting the way his career was viewed by many of his contemporaries.

Shepard Fairey has long been one to recognize the contributing factors of his forefathers in art, and to hear him speak of Haring in the above video is to hear a gracious fan speak on the work that inspires him. The full length version of this video for the Fall 2012 line will be released soon on the OBEY website.

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SHEPARD FAIREY “HARMONY AND DISCORD” VIDEO

Shepard Fairey gives us a rare glimpse into his process with this studio visit video at Pace Paper studio in New York and the Watanabe Press in Brooklyn while preparing for his upcoming exhibition at Pace Prints.

Eight minutes of interview time gives viewers insight to the concepts behind some of Shep’s more visually striking work, showing the depth the artist is capable of capturing with such a flat work as print. The process also rings true to this ideal with varying levels of depth introduced to the flat surface of the works by means of various materials being introduced to the printing process.Shep’s “Harmony & Discord” opened on May 5 and is on view at Pace Prints in New York until June 16th; find more details below.

Shepard Fairey: Harmony & Discord
Pace Prints
521 W 26th St
New York, NY 10001

Show runs: May 5th-June 16th, 2012 

(Source: hypebeast.com)

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OBEY THE GIANT - NARRATIVE FILM ABOUT SHEPARD FAIREY - KICKSTARTER PROJECT

Being the first narrative film ever to tell the story of any period of Shep’s life, filmmaker and Julian Marshall of Rhode Island School of Design in Washington, D.C. has created a 25-minute short film of cinema quality outlining a powerful transition in the street artist’s journey to stardom. OBEY THE GIANT is a film that covers the story of the first large bilboard that Fairey appropriated into a community-stirring news story, and took eight days to film as part of Marshall’s thesis project.

A street art piece of its own, the film caused a splash when a guerilla film-making technique involving hijacking a part of campus gave the neighborhood a jolt when they astoundingly assumed former Mayor Buddy Cianci was running again. Check out the Kickstarter project for your chance at an original Shepard Fairey piece above and a synopsis of the film below, and click here to see the full campaign.

Based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art, OBEY THE GIANT tells the story of a young skate punk challenging a big-city mayor and the powers-that-be at art school. Frustrated by his inability to gain respect within the confines of art school Shepard sets out to gain notoriety and acclaim by targeting the most powerful man in Providence, former Mayor Buddy Cianci. Risking expulsion and jail time Shepard plasters Andre the Giant’s face over the image of Cianci on a campaign billboard. As word of Shepard’s prank gets out, Shepard learns that art is a weapon and attention is both a blessing and a curse.

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CURTIS KULIG X OBEY “LOVE ME” SIGNATURE LINE

When I was first introduced to Curtis Kulig by sight of his “Love Me” tags in Hollywood, I didn’t know it was a thing. The street art movement was taking off and I thought some hipster had grabbed a paint pen and wrote what he was thinking at the moment on the wall outside my office at deviantART. I did notice, however, that someone had taken extra care to give the lettering some character, and that impressed me.

Years later, and not only has the artist gone all-city, but he’s begun to take over the world alongside friends like Shepard Fairey. He is now collaborating with OBEY for the first time, for their 2012 Spring/Summer catalog with limited-edition apparel for men and women. Check out the full collection here, which keeps both styles intact with OBEY’s signature Andre the Giant graphic and an all-over Love Me tag print. 

AGENDA: A CONVERSATION WITH SHEPARD FAIREY VIDEO

Love him or hate him, Shepard Fairey is one of the most influential street artists of all time, and on the same timeline one of the most successful artists in the broadest sense of the term.

His line OBEY nearly defines streetwear, and his success, image, and reputation as a machine of a man is a testimony to how incredibly hard he works. HBTV and director David Gallardo caught up with him at AGENDA a few days back, and threw some words at him, allowing him to respond as he saw fit.

Whether OBEY is your style of art and fashion or not, Shep is still an important enough figure in the world of pop culture that his words are worth listening to. And though his popularity is littered with criticisms of his abandonment of the “rules of graffiti,” he has pioneered a movement and I see him as one of the most important artists in the history of the world of art.

His notion of taking what is happening in streetwear and filtering through his own tastes is an insightful one, and there is much to be learned from this giant in the fashion industry.

(Source: hypebeast.com)