MR BRAINWASH: Mr Brainwash Featured in Vogue Magazine (Italy)
This month Italy really has a thing for Street Art. In this month’s edition of Italian VOGUE Mr Brainwash is featured with a full spread article and photo shoot. Mr Brainwash is captured amongst his art with the spirit of color as the focus. The article discusses Mr Brainwash’s “Under Construction” Show in Miami and his auction records. On the Vogue website is a short backstage video of Mr Brainwash being doused with paint as he eats alluding to the powerful role of color in Mr Brainwash’s work and life as consuming (CLICK HERE TO WATCH). Mr Brainwash is pictured as more than just the creator of his art, but as a part of it. The relationship of Mr Brainwash to his art is dictated as both the painter and the painted. Mr Brainwash reenacts one of his famous works “Max Spray” as he sits in a leather chair and imitates being blown away by the blast of red paint from a Mr Brainwash Tomato Spray Can.
I feel like this shoot and Vogue feature speaks to the debate over Banksy and Mr Brainwash in their Oscar nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. This Mr Brainwash article quels debate over Mr Brainwash’s artisanship. Mr Brainwash IS a street artist, and one of the most internationally recognized (as this article sets out to consumate, and successfully does).
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Mr. Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta, is the new wonderboy of famous street artists such as Banksyand Shepard Fairey. Quick-thinking, insatiable, distrustful, with an unruly black beard, like a cross between Luis Buñuel’s crazed “Simon del desierto” and the young Marco Ferreri. He shows me a reproduction of “Obama Superman“, an icon he created during Art Basel Miami 2007.
Like Warhol, Mr. Brainwash uses pop art as a vehicle for overturning the rules associated with the classic icons of American consumer culture. Roberto Croci, L’Uomo Vogue, January 2011 (n. 417), p. 288-297
(All of the above images are from Vogue.it and taken by Gavin Bond)
Mr Brainwash: VOGUE Colors Freak Mr Brainwash
MR BRAINWASH: Mr Brainwash Featured in Vogue Magazine (Italy)
This month Italy really has a thing for Street Art. In this month’s edition of Italian VOGUE Mr Brainwash is featured with a full spread article and photo shoot. Mr Brainwash is captured amongst his art with the spirit of color as the focus. The article discusses Mr Brainwash’s “Under Construction” Show in Miami and his auction records. On the Vogue website is a short backstage video of Mr Brainwash being doused with paint as he eats alluding to the powerful role of color in Mr Brainwash’s work and life as consuming (CLICK HERE TO WATCH). Mr Brainwash is pictured as more than just the creator of his art, but as a part of it. The relationship of Mr Brainwash to his art is dictated as both the painter and the painted. Mr Brainwash reenacts one of his famous works “Max Spray” as he sits in a leather chair and imitates being blown away by the blast of red paint from a Mr Brainwash Tomato Spray Can.
I feel like this shoot and Vogue feature speaks to the debate over Banksy and Mr Brainwash in their Oscar nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. This Mr Brainwash article quels debate over Mr Brainwash’s artisanship. Mr Brainwash IS a street artist, and one of the most internationally recognized (as this article sets out to consumate, and successfully does).
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Like Warhol, Mr. Brainwash uses pop art as a vehicle for overturning the rules associated with the classic icons of American consumer culture.
Roberto Croci, L’Uomo Vogue, January 2011 (n. 417), p. 288-297
(All of the above images are from Vogue.it and taken by Gavin Bond)