DescriptionThis beautiful wheatpasted image is a collaboration piece between Daniel Benayun and the Aerosol Art Club.
It measures 3x3'
Wheatpasting is a street art technique that involves glueing (pasting) a paper image onto a surface. The paste material is heavy duty and gives protection from the outdoor elements.
Daniel Benayun Bio:
Benayun was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He paints and teaches from his studio in Jamaica Plain in Boston, Massachusetts.
Through art I explore and reconstruct the magical idealism of mid-twentieth-century advertising, popularized by LIFE Magazine. I transfer these sentiments to a parallel universe of my creation, constructed of text and figurative imagery, often containing metaphors and splashes of humor. Found ephemera, books, and posters serve as points of inspiration.
I then translate into advertisements for entirely imagined products, rendered in opaque, water-based paints to evoke the bold colors and sharp textures associated with mid-twentieth-century commercial design. With paint and brushes, I visually attempt to reset the thread of time, installing myself as the creator of an anti-capitalistic zeitgeist that resurrects the wonder and intrigue of print advertising.
