OBEY GIANT: modern urban art scene

Dear explorers, I recommand you all to go and see:NINETEENEIGHTYFOURIA ehibition
StolenSpace StolenSpace, Old Truman Brewery, 87-89 Brick Lane 2nd – 25th November 2007

OPENING TIMES Wed - Sun 11:00am - 7:00pm

While thinking about my personal project about urban exploration of London I feel like introducing my visitors to the 'originator of the modern urban art scene'. Obey Giant has got an art exhibition in Brick Lane in the StolenSpace Gallery which presents the artist as:


"Arch manipulator, scoundrel, chief propagandist, provocateur, Shepard Fairey is the man many hail as the originator of the modern urban art scene and is an undeniable phenomenon. First coming to prominence in 1989 with his now ubiquitous ‘Obey Giant’ sticker campaign, the self styled phenomenologist has since gone on to become one of the most recognisable artists of the early 2000’s. His work, a mixture of parody and protest, serves to subvert the very medium to which it attaches itself.
"Wall paper posters adorn advertising billboards that in his own words ‘market nothingness’ while large scale posters with the simple one word message ‘obey’ stir the bewildered masses. His unique use of stencils, collage, photography and painting have led to collaborations with among others, DJ Shadow, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins and more recently the poster art for the Johnny Cash biopic, ‘Walk the Line’. "