Itica Pritica 2013
| Film | Itica Pritica |
| Artist | Beezy Bailey, Dave Matthews |
| Venue | Robert Miller Gallery - New York City, NY |
| Type | Event Promo |
| Technique | Litho |
| Country | United States |
| 2013-03-05 | |
| Dimensions | 45.7 × 61.0 cm |
| Notes | Long-time friends, Beezy Bailey and Dave Matthews, both born in South Africa, first worked together in 1999 creating six paintings that were exhibited at Africa's first World of Music, Arts and Dance festival in Johannesburg. In 2012 they collaborated on the present body of work, a homage to Warhol and Rauschenberg in enamel, oil and silkscreen on canvas. The Statue of Liberty, the fatman and Bailey and Matthews themselves are reoccurring motifs. The film, ITICA PRITICA, was made on the first day of their collaboration in New York while scouting for source imagery to be used in the silkscreened works. Settling on a graffiti backdrop on the Bowery, Bailey, who is known for alter egos, began dancing around dressed in the fatman costume (a stylized fat suit) while Matthews filmed the impromptu performance with his mobile phone. Matthews had recently produced a melancholic yet humorous musical composition, and this unreleased material later became the film's soundtrack. Limited edition offset lithograph showing original artwork from the Itica Pritica gallery exhibit. Itica Pritica is a collaboration between artists, Beezy Bailey and Dave Matthews, showing at the Robert Miller Gallery, NYC. March 5 - April 13, 2013 |
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