Your Eyes Here

The CAC Málaga museum presents “Your Eyes Here”, an exhibition from Los Angeles-based artist Shepard Fairey.

“Your Eyes Here” is not just a historical overview of Fairey’s works, but is a dynamic up-to-the-moment showcase of his artistic evolution influenced by music, politics – peace and war – and environmental issues. The exhibition surveys the artist’s 25-year career, which includes paintings, screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, photographs, sculpture, and works on wood, metal, and canvas.

The show captures and explores the breadth of Fairey’s prolific body of work and showcasing more than 200 works, including an impressive grid of Fairey’s screen printed works which represent the essential form and building blocks from which his other works have developed. Fairey approaches screen prints are that they are meant to be functional in working for the street or the gallery, building an everexpanding mosaic of cohesive images, which can stand-alone but strengthen as a larger group.

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most influential and provocative artists, Shepard Fairey calls himself “a populist” and notoriously breaks the rules of both the contemporary fine art and street art worlds with his signature graphic style and messages. Fairey’s Obey art campaign entices a complacent audience to wake up. By using reverse psychology, viewers are provoked to analyze and uncover deeper meaning beyond the surface message. Fairey hopes that increased awareness will encourage the audience to take action. “Your Eyes Here” is an extension of that ethos of engagement and empowerment.

until September 27, 2015
Shepard Fairey
Your Eyes Here
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
Calle Alemania, S/N, Málaga