Banksy's manager, Steve Lazarides, is known for his eye for subversive, intelligent, unsettling, attention grabbing artists. He has now gathered together the best of them to create a collection of Outsider art: From Tank Girl and Gorrilaz creator Jamie Hewlett to international artist collective Faile, Conor Harrington, or 3D from Massive Attack.

Steve Lazarides named his compilation Outsiders because a considerable proportion of the artists included choose to display their work in the very public domain of the street [ or actually, in several cases, the countryside ]. But equally they’re Outsiders because they have made their name without taking the traditional path via the established gallery system, many even haven’t ever had any formal art training. Their chosen medium ist the outside world, money may be fun, but these artists aren’t producing their work just so a millionaire can put it up in his Swiss Chalet - they do it to communicate their message.

This new generation of boundary-pushing artists’ greatest claim to the tag of Outsiders is, that while they’ve regularly been accused of „not being art“, they’ve lately ended up gracing museums and major art galleries.

26 x 21 cm
264 pages
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