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Jef Aérosol 2009 - Emergency Box for the "Go Get your Shinebox" group show at Brooklynite Gallery (New-York)

November 21 - December 19 2009

www.BrooklyniteGallery.com

 

www.flickr.com/photos/brooklynitegallery /sets/72157622316...

 

What does it mean for an artist to “survive” in a tough economic climate? Can business ever be “bad” for a diligently working artist? Making an honest living ---in a group show like NO OTHER, these artists, some legendary and some suitably hungry, will dissolve the line between utility and luxury for an exhibition entitled, "GO GET YOUR SHINEBOX".

 

If you’ve spent time in a "third world country", you’ve had a chance to see kids carrying ingeniously designed work boxes, set up for

shinning shoes. We find that the variety and exuberance of these objects perfectly captures our world climate.

 

With the global economic downturn and the hardship it has caused blue-collar workers throughout, we find it fitting to explore the

world’s simplest way to make a living— SHINNING SHOES. We are planning an exhibition around just that-- SHOESHINE BOXES.

 

However a "SHOESHINE BOX" should not be taken in the most literal sense of the words. These objects, our inspiration, have all been created out of necessity- a need to earn money, or further, to survive. We push “the need to survive” beyond its literal context, commissioning our favorite established and emerging artists to design their own, "SURVIVAL BOXES".

 

A shoeshine box is a medium, a framework, the boundaries of which have not been pushed ...till now.

 

UNIFIED ARTISTS

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MISS BUGS

JEF AEROSOL

SWEET TOOF

PURE EVIL

BEN EINE

DAIN

INKIE

BEN FROST

STEN

LEX

JACE

LUKE INSECT

VARIOUS & GOULD

KUUK

CEPT

WILL BARRAS

5003

DDOCK

PHIL ASHCROFT

JOE BLACK

THUNDERCUT

K-GUY

ANTHONY LISTER

AIKO

GAIA

JON BURGERMAN

STEFF PLAETZ

DAVID WALKER

RYCA

SKEWVILLE

PENNY

BILLI KID

SADDO

PAPER MONSTER

DANIEL LUMBINI

3TTMAN

OZMO

PERU ANA ANA PERU

REMED

FEFE TALAVERA

EVOL

SPECTER

OLIVER WINCONEK

ZBIOK

MYMO

LUDO

ELICSER

KNOW HOPE

BROKEN CROW

GAETANE MICHAUX

AUGUSTUS THOMPSON

COLLIN VAN DER SLUJIS

KOSBE

SPQR

M8

HUSH

NEB THE STRANGLER

DEREK SHUMATE

ZOOT

FUMAKAKA

JORGE GALVAO

MEDO

EL MATO

AJAMU WALKER

PRESTO

RODRIGO LEVEL

EMA

NONOSE

MIKE FALES

IVICA CAPAN

PLIMSOUL

JO PEEL

THE KRAH

RAFAEL SILKS

BLO

DESTROY & REBUILD

JAW

KAN

LIME

OSIK

ANU SCHWARTZ

JACE RIVERA

SOWAT

ROSTONE & DRED (Readerswives Collective)

TIKA

RICHARD DIX

JOAQUIM STEVENSON-RODRIGUEZ

CELSO

CAKE

AME72

BRUSK

KAIS DHIFI

GEOMETRIC BANG

DARKCOULD

MARVIN CRUSHLER

LEAST WANTED

MANO DE PAPEL

TEN13ONE

KLONE

KNOX

FRANCK DUVAL

ROBOTS WILL KILL

RAE

 

 

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