Shepard Fairey with Deitch Projects

Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: | Category: Art News | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

After maybe a month of rumors, it seems official: Shepard Fairey has some sort of relationship with the famed Deitch Projects. This piece, Patagonia, is being shown by Deitch at Art Basel.

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If this leads to an exhibition or Fairey being managed by Deitch, it could mean big things for Fairey. Over the past month, a number of Fairey’s works have changed hands on the secondary, and demand for his work seems higher than ever. I think most would agree that Fairey is a smart businessman, and there isn’t much of a smarter move for increasing the value of his work and exposing it to a more “contemporary art” audience than getting together with Deitch.

Via The World’s Best Ever

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    I don’t know if it was mentioned on the source site (sadly, the firewall I’m using today won’t let me access The World’s Best Ever site it says it’s full of “nudity”), but this is a tie-in with a film called 180 Degrees South (which is part of an anti-dam campaign in Patagonia), they have a website at http://180south.com.

    I would guess it’s based on a still from the film as the bloke in the poster is also featured in the trailer, although the crappy pylons and digger are obviously brought in from the Sin Represas (No Dams!) campaign posters, e.g.
    http://www.patagoniasinrepresas.cl/final/dinamicos/posters//foto_poster_2.jpg