2.5: New York Street Life - Couverture souple

Wk, Interact

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8888493441 ISBN 13 : 9788888493442

Editeur : Drago, 2009

Synopsis

Drago's 36 Chambers series lifts off with the action packed, motion-blurred work of New York based street artist, WK Interact. Complemented by yellow bursts of juxtaposition, his unique monochrome iconography draws the viewer into a new and distinctive perspective of the streets. WK has proved himself as one of the truly original and innovative street artists in his ability to marry the movement of the street to the dynamism imbued in his work. Alex Grant, an architect, designer and long-term mentor of WK describes the encapsulating pieces featured in this book as "a series of rippling stretched images across undulating planes, dancing and leaping across the surfaces. Protruding foregrounds from industrial graveyards and sidewalk garbage night finds assist or hinder the subjects' path depending on their puppet master's intention, a conceptual texture reminiscent of New York's crime and grime days."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dynamic and energetic, groundbreaking street artist WK Interact brings his iconic style to the indoors'36 Chambers', the title of the series is inspired by the classic martial arts movie 'Enter the 36 Chambers of Shaolin', the story of which inspired the debut album by Wu-Tang Clan. Drago plans 36 titles in the series the creative brief of which is that artists may only use black and white and a single colour of their choice. Born in France, WK Interact has lived and breathed New York City for the last 20 years, where the urban landscape has become the perfect backdrop for his cutting-edge work - highly energetic and dynamic images of figures running, jumping, and moving through the urban environment. This visually stunning volume showcases WK Interact's groundbreaking work in which he brings his iconic street art to the indoors, allowing him to add levels of complexity and energy never before seen.

Biographie de l'auteur

WK (aka WK Interact) was born in 1969 in Caen, France. He has lived and worked in New York since the early 1990s. WK is interested with the human body in motion, his paintings of figures frozen in a flight of movement reflects this infatuation. The artist s unique process involves a technique of twisting an original drawing or photograph while it's being photocopied, resulting in the monochromatic palette and streamlined moment-in-time appearance of his finished work. WK site-determines his placements by finding an appropriate location first, then his imagery is chosen specifically with a concern for encounters in an urban environment or "interactions" (as the artist indicates in his pseudonym). In the late 1990s his images began appearing on building facades in downtown Manhattan, complimenting the constant stir of bodies and the perpetual motion of contemporary urban life in the fast-paced city.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Drago
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8888493441
• ISBN 13: 9788888493442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible