Tape-laying street artist Aakash Nihalani has been doing some traveling, sticking up his geometric designs in Vienna, for the BLK RIVER Festival, and now India. Highlighting how essential documentation is for many modern street artists, Nihalani posts proof of his cubic work before it was quickly peeled off some stone structure in New Delhi.
Photos by Aakash Nihalani
The thing about Aakash Nihalani’s work is that it doesn’t always work, even when it’s outside and illegal. So it’s even harder to justify this 2-dimensional concept in a 3-dimensional medium. But go ahead and check it out, it’s fun for like 5 seconds. |Hragvartanian|
In contrast to my colleague’s positive take on Poster Boy’s latest work at Jajo Gallery, Jordan Seiler offers a more critical perspective: “PosterBoy’s transformation of the gallery space doesn’t address the underlying advertising and public space issues his work in public so effortlessly tackles….On top of this Aakash’s work looses its spatial relationships, merely becoming a way to hold PosterBoy’s billboards to the wall, albeit in an artistic fashion. I thought to myself, even more than most street art, this work just doesn’t work in a gallery setting.” |Public Ad Campaign|
Recently, the ad rearranging vandal known as Poster Boy collaborated with fellow street artist Aakash Nihalani and some other guy named Ibrahim Ahmed III for an exhibit at the JaJo Gallery in Newark, New Jersey. Unlike his previous show at Easter District, which really had no room to breathe, this installation was far more sophisticated and despite the legality, works! Along with the exhibit, a bandana clad Poster Boy appears in this new video that documented the creative collusion and refers to him “as a kind of anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade.” If that’s the case, maybe a mask is in order, because that disguise isn’t disguising much. Click below to see the somewhat revealing footage and hear his philosophical musings.
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Poster Boy—the artist not the movement—is showcasing some new collaborative installations with fellow Neo-Con Collective members Aakash Nihalani and Ellis G. at 17 Frost Gallery in Brooklyn Saturday, March 21st. For those fluent in art fag, here’s the lofty description of the exhibit: “Their works, on and off the street, possess urgent relevance to modern societal contradictions and conflagrations, confronting the humanness of discomfort and dissatisfaction with typical, routine, existence.” Considering what happened last time he showed up, Poster Boy fall guy Henry Matyjewicz might want to avoid the event altogether.
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After recently teaming up with Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign, in a series of work that promises to become bolder as the project develops, Poster Boy has expanded his collaboration further, forming alliances with Ellis Gallagher and Aakash Nihalani, to form a new collective, Neo-Con. Poster Boy noted that the latest work was “originally a collaboration between Poster Boy and Jordan…However, Aakash and Ellis couldn’t wait to get their filthy mitts on the blutiful wall.”
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On Friday, Poster Boy collaborator and tape laying street artist Aakash Nihalani unveiled a solo show in Brooklyn. The work consisted of the signature cube-type stuff he does on the street as well as some laser etched mirrors and painted canvasses. Like many street art exhibits in gallery settings though, the justification for the work is hard to reconcile when the illegal nature of it is removed. Similar to the major flaw of the 11 Spring Street project, when sanctioned, the work lacks punch. Luckily, he’s not moving exclusively into the gallery scene and will still create stuff for the public which ironically, will likely be worth more than than the more polished stuff. More photos after the jump, including our favorite spotted on the way to the gallery.
The underground, subway ad remixing artist known as Poster Boy has been on a bit of a rampage lately after taking a brief hiatus. In a new series of alterations, the culture jamming artisan takes shots at the media, fast food, bad shows on Fox and even gentrification—in one instance giving a movie poster for Nicholas Cage’s latest box office bomb Bangkok Dangerous a much more fitting facelift considering a certain Brooklyn neighborhood’s increasing popularity. Collaborator Aakash Nihalani rejoins Poster Boy, attacking the insides of subway cars too. Click below for the creative cluster of constructive vandalism.
Just this week we noted how Poster Boy was stepping up his game and true to form, he’s now even collaborating with other artists. Plus he’s not only hitting the subway advertisements, but now also posting stuff up inside the actual subways too. His latest collection of work was done in partnership with Aakash Nihalani, an artist we spotted outside NYU’s Barney Building back in May that uses neon colored tape to create 3D-ish shapes. Click below for a sampling of the new underground images.
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