Faile
FAILE "POST NO BILLS" Screenprint, Brooklyn Decade of Prints
2011

Name: FAILE "POST NO BILLS" Screenprint, Brooklyn Decade of Prints
Brand: Faile
Price: 1000 USD
Availability: InStock

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POST NO BILLS launches with a unique ten-year retrospective from the acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist collaborative− FAILE. Recognized for their bold graphic imagery gracing street, museum and gallery walls worldwide, FAILE− the multimedia artist duo− celebrates their roots in printmaking with over a decade’s worth of archived works on paper, limited edition prints and hand painted originals− many of which have never been offered to the public before. POST NO BILLS is pleased to release several exclusive print editions produced onsite. Join FAILE, Steve Lazarides and Jordan Bratman for the groundbreaking launch of POST NO BILLS and the opening reception for “LA Works on Paper” on Friday June 24, 2011 from 7-10pm. FAILE FAILE is the Brooklyn-based multimedia artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. From a prolific and groundbreaking Street Art collaboration that began in downtown New York in 1999, FAILE has expanded their practice in the studio to the walls of galleries and museums worldwide. In the studio, FAILE recreates the in sitú appearance of plastered, torn and weathered posters from the street on to canvas, and puzzle- like, multi-part wooden boxes, pallets and crates. Continually recycling while expanding the vocabulary of their most recognizable works FAILE creates original imagery that takes the visual vocabulary of popular culture, consumerist vernacular and the fantastical – remixing them into raw yet captivating narratives. Through this process FAILE explores notions of duality: love versus hate, peace versus war, violence versus beauty, revealing a frenetic tapestry that weaves together disparate elements of the urban landscape. FAILE has traveled internationally for the last 10 years – from Palestine to Berlin, London to Shanghai – contributing its striking iconography and dexterous style to city walls, buildings and bridges all around the world. POST NO BILLS The term POST NO BILLS is commonly identified in stencil form – on barriers erected around construction sites in an effort to deter clean walls from being altered. Generally speaking, this practice produces a contrary effect. Our founders subscribe to the notion that breaking rules generally inspires more ingenuity than following them. Which is why POST NO BILLS was created. POST NO BILLS is an inventive print shop with a focus on hand made limited edition multiples. We are a singular destination where groundbreaking artists from around the globe can sell their wears directly to passionate collectors at all levels. Editions will be made on the premises with a true dedication to quality. Read less Medium Print Condition Print is in pristine condition and has been stored flat since 2011. Signature Not signed, these were screenprinted on site in L.A. at the "Post No Bill's" Show. , not signed Frame Not included Publisher Steve Lazarides

Creator:

Faile (American)

Creation Year:

2011

Dimensions:

Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Street Art

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Draper, UT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1327210224592

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The art collective Faile, is formed by Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeil. Both artists met at school and studied graphic design. In 1999 they formed a group with the nickname A-Life, under which (and under the influence of a young Shepard Fairey) they began to wheatpaste their posters around the big American cities. Soon they met who would become a third temporary member, the Japanese Aiko Nakagawa. In 2006, she would leave the group to start her own solo career and today is known as Lady Aiko. After an arrest, precisely for wheatpasting, they changed the name of the group to Faile (anagram of A-Life). Soon after they already had created an image and began to expand their brand to other continents sticking their designs on the streets of other cities in Europe and Asia. Like Obey, this group aims to create social criticism, generate artistic interest and awareness. Faile was part of that group of young emerging artists of the urban subculture that promoted the art in the streets. With their printed impressions, Faile promotes the access of the artwork to the general public at affordable prices. They began working with the stencil, preferring this technique because their work would have more durability. Gradually they combined it with painting, mixed media and collage. Thanks to his extensive knowledge in printing techniques, these two artists have taken the collage to another level and in his works can see how many printed layers are superimposed on top of each other to later be torn, suggesting the lower layers. As Mimmo Rotella did a few decades before, Faile creates their own version of the decollage technique. The work of these artists is highly influenced by the comic, film and fiction novels. If we look at the aesthetics of their work we can see how this neo pop art presented to us, represents its own modern version of the aesthetics of Roy Lichtenstein and, as already mentioned, an improved technique of Mimmo Rotella's decollage. All their works explore the world of contradictions and how they complement each other, based on the theory of yin-yang. So opposites as love and hatred, violence and peace or beauty and ugliness share the limelight in their paintings. Faile members currently reside in Brooklyn, New York, where they have their workshop. Their current creations explore media, from traditional canvas to other more diverse as wood or glass. They also have a very prolific activity by editing their own limited edition prints, and creating their own line of merchandising. So far they have published four books with their works entitled "Orange", "Death", "Boredom" and "Lavender”. Their works are internationally recognized and has been exhibited in major galleries around the world. Some of them have come to get tens of thousands of euros.