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|
Poster Boy: Gallery Artist & ‘Anti-Consumerist Zorro’
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.
Photos by jim kiernan
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