Description
Booktitle: STIK
Hardcover
Published: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 26.5 x 22 x 2.6 cm. / 10.4 x 8.7 x 1 inch.
The book features a selection of large format photographs of Stik’s unofficial street murals spanning over a decade, across three continents and reveals for the first time the stories and motivations behind them.
The first edition hardback has over 200 heavy gloss pages and is bound in lush red canvas with two colour foil details. Each copy contains an exclusive, limited edition lithograph print available in one of three colours. This book contains the RED one!
The first collected volume of work from feted street artist Stik, fully illustrated and beautifully presented
“Social change is what art does. I don’t know what else there is, to be honest. Social change seems to me the primary function of art. I feel that’s my duty. That’s why I’m here. That’s what art is supposed to do.” —Stik
Stik first came to notoriety as an underground street artist who painted life-size stick figures during the night around London’s East End. As a firm believer in the right to protest, the freedom of speech, and basic human rights, Stik has now painted murals in cities, towns, and villages all over the world, focusing his work in communities that face repression and disenfranchisement.
Having gained an international following, Stik credits his audience with the intelligence to fill in the emotional details of his work, which always consists of just six lines and two dots. Each piece is a meditation.
This is the first collected volume of his work to date. It reveals the political and artistic inspiration behind an emerging voice whose work stands alongside Banksy and Keith Haring among true activists in the street art community.
Steam 156 is a (former) graffiti writer, author, photographer and collector from the UK. He let go his private collection of graffiti media and memoriabla. All products are shipped from the Netherlands
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