As most of you know I’m a huge Obey Giant fan. So I was pretty excited when I read on the Obey Giant website today that there was a new film (i.e. YouTube clip) of the set up of last year’s Agnes B::Obey::WK Interact Collaborative Exhibition that took place in Tokyo, Japan. (link) The print set that came out of the Obey x WK Interact exhibit (Obey x WK Delancy, Obey x WK Flyer, Obey x WK Revolution Girl) are some of my favorite pieces of Obey artwork because of the way they so effortlessly combined the two artists’ unique styles. Needless to say I was really excited to see what both artists presented at the show.
What I saw on the video amazed me. Besides displaying previously produced pieces of art, both graffiti artists combined lots of different pasters to create giant unique murals on the walls of one of the rooms at the gallery. If you’ve never seen what goes into the process of tagging pasters, you’ll definitely want to watch this video. Not only do you get to watch Shepard and WK work on the murals, but at the end video the camera follows Fairey and WK out onto the streets of Tokyo to plaster their artwork onto unsuspecting buildings in the middle of the night. All in all a very cool glimpse into the life of a street art campaign artist. Oh yeah, if you do watch the video below I recommend lowering the volume on your computer beforehand because the song in the background plays really loud.Each of the 18x24 Obey x WK Interact screen prints had a run size of 250 and were signed and numbered by Shepard Fairey. The prints sold out immediately upon their release on December 18, 2007.
