Video: Mix Pop Art, Sci-Fi and Anime, Flavor with Chinese Art, Serve During a DJ Set: A Creative Recipe by Ben Marcus
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist and DJ Ben Marcus lives and works in Chicago. In his work, he actively combines digital aesthetics, which is close to every lover of electronic music, with elements of sci-fi and traditional ethnic motives.
Ben's two favorite genres are comics and posters. However, in his performance, it is sometimes difficult to draw a line between them. Fantastic, absurd and often creepy characters and images of the artist feel great both on the poster for the next DJ set or the album cover of a young musical group ("Good Enough for Grandpa"), and on the wall of an art gallery in surrounded by heroes created by the wild imagination of friends and associates of Marcus from the creative association of Chicago comics artists "Trubble Club" ("Trubble Club").
In addition to the elements brought in by a fascination with comics and acidic club culture (a combination that is almost inevitably associated with Japan), there is a strong influence of more traditional Asian art in the artist's graphics. In particular, the faces of many of Ben's heroes resemble masks of demons, evil spirits and mythical animals that are an integral part of the visual culture of China.
And, of course, for an artist living in Chicago, the cradle of Western American postmodernism and the hometown of the famous 1960s art group The Hairy Who, it is almost impossible to escape the influence of pop and folk art.
By the way, as a member of the Trouble Club, Marcus took part in the creation of the sculpture “Trubble Corpse” for the “Afterimage” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago, which was visited by one of his idols: “… I almost cried when I saw [in the video] Karl Virsum standing next to the “Troubled corpse,” Ben writes. “He has had a huge impact on my work, and I know that the rest of the Trouble Club share my feelings. In my mind, this sculpture has always been a declaration of love for his work, gratitude for everything he has done."
Still, in the modern world, music and visual art almost always go hand in hand. A vivid confirmation of this is the photographs of the icon of electronic music of the nineties Moby.
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