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The secretive British street artist known as Banksy has always made a political statement with his art. This past week, a large collection of Banksy works where put on display in an exhibit – “War Capitalism & Liberty.” More than 100 Banksy art pieces and over 60-plus records and CD covers were curated from private collectors and clients.
Even as an adult seeing a swing set on a playground can just bring out the kid in all of us. These special swing set installations have LED lights and plays music. The Swings – An Exercise in Musical Cooperation project was developed by Daily Tous Les Jours, a Montreal-based design studio.
It’s all about textures and layers for this doodling artist. Currently living in Singapore, artist Dhanedra, Dhan aka WalgDP gets his ideas from film, comics, and games.
If you are new to the seen of vinyl toys and don’t know what the fuss is all about, then you might want to travel to Toronto, Canada for the “This is Not a Toy” Exhibition on urban vinyl toys.
Photo via Mobstr.org
Blunt, straightforward, and sarcastic words of wisdom can be found on the streets of London by UK artist Mobstr.
Themed designed by Karrie Lee, Hong Kong – UTGP 2012 Coca-Cola Contest.
I love Uniqlo and can’t wait until they open their store here in San Francisco, but for now I’ll just read and buy their stuff on the internet. Recently, they held a design contest and they have just announced the winner. This year’s contest Uniqlo was looking for the best Coca Cola themed design. The winner was from Hong Kong, designer Karrie Lee. Big kudos for a fresh take.
Here at Retrenders I had the pleasure of interviewing Luke about his just released book, The Art of Luke Chueh – Bearing the Unbearable published by Titan Books, and got to know a little more of the painter and graphic designer.
RTNDR: I see this book is a great collection of your paintings, acrylic statues, and even showing your skateboard art, but we know you have an amazing collection of vinyl work. Will we see a book highlighting your vinyl art?
LUKE: I think creating a book of my 3-D work would be a great idea. Maybe in couple years after I’ve built up a large enough portfolio.
RTNDR: How would you categorize or characterize your art or should we even categorize art?
LUKE: Years ago, I used to spend time thinking of new names for the genre of my art. I always felt “Lowbrow” had demeaning connotations and “Pop Surreal” only told a part of the story. Word combinations like “Post Brow”, “Idealized Art”, or “Contemptorary” became labels I threw around. But lately I’ve sort of “come to terms” with Lowbrow & Pop Surrealism. To dismiss these would be to dismiss the artists whose work inspired label, and if fans and critics consider my art to be of the genre, then whom am I to tell them they’re wrong? But to be completely honest, I would prefer having my work simply recognized as “contemporary art” (ie. Art that is characteristic of the present).
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