JOIN THE POSTER BOY COLLECTIVE AT FOUR DIFFERENT PARTIES ON THE SAME NIGHT TO LAUNCH K.A.R.A.T.E (Kids Are Rallying Against the Empire) A LEGAL DEFENCE TO FUND FOR ARTISTS, AND CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF POSTER BOY: THE WORLD OF ART.
– Poster Boy will be signing books at all four locations.
– Signed books and limited edition prints available.
– A portion of book, art, food and beverage sales will go to K.A.R.A.T.E
Poster Boy is an anonymous New York City based street artist whose only utensil is a razor. He makes satiric collage-like works created by cutting out sections of the self-adhesive advertisement posters in the platforms of New York City subway stations and pasting them back in different positions. Many of these works have been collected in a book called Poster Boy: The War of Art.
“His cut and slash mash-ups of subway platform billboards only exist in New York City, but Poster Boy’s artful and funny appropriations of advertising have gotten him attention the world over. The New York Times dubbed him an “anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade, a sense of humor and a talent for collage”; the Guardian UK said of his work, it “is witty, web-savvy and economical…and the only materials it requires are chutzpah, imagination and a 50 cent blade.”
Poster Boy tweaks corporate copy, replacing it with incisive and playful puns and turns of phrase rich with innuendo and political punch. Beautiful models turn ghastly and iconic spokespeople become the mouthpiece for Poster Boy’s ideas.”
Advertisements are turned into political statements, which draw the eye quicker than the original ads. Poster Boy’s works force one to think deeper about the nature of what is being advertised.
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