CULTURE
Shepard Fairey+Damien Hirst+Invader「Triple Trouble」展

三位藝術家Shepard Fairey、Damien Hirst、Invader前所未有聯展「Triple Trouble」將於10月10日英國倫敦Newport Street Gallery開始舉行!

Newport Street Gallery與HENI聯合舉辦至明年3月29日,由Connor Hirst策劃,將展出一系列個人作品以及大膽嶄新合作作品,當中好多將首次向公眾展示!
「展覽涵蓋繪畫、雕塑、裝置和馬賽克,探索當代藝術、街頭文化和流行圖像交會。Fairey+Hirst+Invader聯手創作一系列難以歸類混合作品,同時彰顯對重複、符號和文化符號共同迷戀。
展覽佔用Newport Street Gallery全部六個展廳空間,不僅頌揚每位藝術家個性,亦展現實踐碰撞時產生協同效應。觀者將會看到一些熟悉主題:Fairey『OBEY』圖像、Hirst點和櫃子、Invader太空馬賽克,主題以挑釁而俏皮方式重新組合,挑戰純藝術與街頭文化之間界限。」

Shepard Fairey:
「Why would I want to collaborate on an exhibition with Invader and Damien Hirst? I’ve long respected both artists because they are intelligent, conceptual, and relentless in their singular creative visions. “Obsessive” might be too mild a description to convey their drive, focus, and prodigious output. I can relate to them. I also admire risk-takers and troublemakers who can withstand condescending, impolite jabs from supposedly polite society. Those qualities inspired me to collaborate with them even though our aesthetics have no natural overlap or compatibility. A clash of styles in collaboration is a risk worth taking, and creativity can solve almost all problems. Malcolm McLaren once told me, “A glorious failure is better than a boring success.” So, with that as a guiding principle, what could possibly go wrong?」

Damien Hirst:
「What I’ve really enjoyed is the powerful sensibility of both these guys, and it pushes me to think more, down to millimetres and distances between things and colours, and there’s lots and lots and lots of surprises. So I think there’s excitement in the differences and in the similarities. Artists can be notoriously difficult to work with whereas these two are very rare in the art world because they’re great people as well as great artists.」

Invader:
「In addition to being troublemakers of the art world, Damien and Shepard are two art giants whose work I admire. Combining our three styles could only result in
some astonishing art works. The creative process itself was very exciting with hundreds of messages, ideas and art works travelling back and forth between the three of us. It was a great adventure and I hope the public will enjoy discovering this exhibition as much as we enjoyed creating it.」