Description
From the mythical Tank Woman to are living-motion animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese language latest opera to an exhibition on the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlett is likely one of the so much full of life figures of latest popular culture.
With impacts starting from hip hop to zombie slasher films, Hewlett emerged within the mid-Nineties as co-writer of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Woman comedian. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went directly to create the groundbreaking cool animated film band Gorillaz. The award-profitable digital workforce of lively characters is a actually international phenomenon.Gorillaz have crowned charts world wide, toured the globe from San Diego to Syria and collected loads of thousands and thousands of streams and file gross sales alongside the best way.
Since then, Hewlett has persevered to collaborate with Albarn on tasks together with an intricate staging of the Chinese language novel Monkey: Adventure to the West via Wu Cheng’en, entire with circus acrobats, Shaolin clergymen, and Chinese language singers. In 2006, he was once named Dressmaker of the 12 months via the Layout Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn gained a BAFTA for his or her lively Monkey collection for the Beijing Olympic Video games. In 2015 The Suggestionists, an exhibition of prints on the Saatchi Gallery in London, confirmed an exhilarating new course in Hewlett’s observe.
This TASCHEN variation, Hewlett’s first leading monograph, illustrates his exciting inventive Adventure with greater than 400 works of art from the Tank Woman generation Via Gorillaz and as much as the prevailing day. Via tales, characters, strips, and sketches, we hint Hewlett’s remarkable capability for invention and have a good time a polymath artist who refuses to relax on his laurels, or to be pigeonholed into a selected observe.Offered out after simply weeks, this 2d variation options a brand spanking new quilt.
