My favourite story in the book is D*Face getting in touch with Shepard Fairey back in 1999 on a still fledgling internet, via an unreliable dial-up modem, using Ask Jeeves to track him down. He was successful. The rest is history. Happy days.
Roll on to 2013 and the internet has left us attention-span-less, trolled, open to abuse, & able to claim (arguable) knowledge to just about everything that has ever happened. While the world has left us a little weary & cynical (or is that just me? i'm told we're supposed to be happier!). A lot has happened since 1999 and D*Face has made a point of keeping his work relevant & political, aswell as arty. His cure is to end the book with a "keep it real" message, going back to his first love, skateboarding, for inspiration. Seems like a very sensible plan.
Inbetween his tale charts the rise of modern street art & his place in it. Incorporating divergent themes, audacious installations, ups & downs, politics, power, colour and some great Lichtenstein & Haring inspired artwork. He got the riot his artwork craved (& must have inspired to some small degree). He must want some form of social justice but that is still far away (& sadly the riots were anything but just).
In the end the rich got richer just as the artists got bolder. Cream (& oil) continues to rise & D*Face's talent shines through regardless of the ways of the world.
In the end the rich got richer just as the artists got bolder. Cream (& oil) continues to rise & D*Face's talent shines through regardless of the ways of the world.
One Man & His Dog is a stylish monograph that charts the creativity & rise of D*Face.
http://www.dface.co.uk
front cover
audacious 2008 trafalgar square installation
Lovely Haring inspired artwork
Tim Hans mugshot
The book doesn't move (unless you push it)
Nippon
naughty boy
almost as good as Lichtenstein himself!
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