In the true spirit of fun and mayhem TrustoCorp. spent this past weekend installing some modified product packaging around NYC. As stated on it’s website, “TrustoCorp is a New York based artist (or artists) dedicated to highlighting the hypocrisy and hilarity of human behavior through sarcasm and satire. TrustoCorp. targets areas in the public domain typically reserved for messages of trust and authority and abuses them with visual messages of mayhem and absurdity hijacked from the visual style of our authorities.” Next time you go to the market, be sure to keep an eye out for these life changing products!
Given that your chances of running into one of these products around NYC is going to be fairly difficult, might I suggest you check out the TrustoCorp. exhibit opening on April 15 at Brooklyn Brothers Gallery. The gallery is located at 18 East 17 Street, 6th Floor.
Looking for a last minute gift idea? Why not order yourself the Kim Jong Il teapot collaborative effort of artist Michael Leavitt and Charles Krafft. I heard Obama has two! Available here for $1200.
(image sources | Apu - Limpfish, - Dali - About.com)
Artist David Barton (not sure if it’s the same one as the gym guy, but it’s not this guy for sure) created these modified art masterpieces with cast members of The Simpson’s. Perhaps you will consider this disgraceful, but I love seeing the mash-up of pop-culture icons and historic pieces of art.
(image sources | Willie - Limpfish, Van Gogh - Wikipedia)
If you attended the recent AAAA talk, or viewed it online you head Posterchild speak about his recent marriage proposal to his girlfriend. How would a man known for altering advertising space into public art space propose you ask? By doing exactly what he does best, of course! Check out the video of the altered subway television ad turned proposal medium.
Designed by Jason Eppink and Tyler Menzel, the Total Crisis Panic Buton project was implemented around Los Angeles “in which Los Angeles crosswalk instruction signs are made a little more relevant”.
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