I was half-expecting Shepard Fairey to do something on Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who’s been in police custody for 43 days, but somebody beat him to it. niborama: Fairey Use: A poster created by Artorical calls for the release of Ai Weiwei in the style of Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant, with a Chinese text that translates to “Love the Future.” Contacted by Niborama for comment, Fairey said the appropriation was appropriate. “I think the poster is great,” he said in an email. “I wholly endorse the message and I’m proud that an homage to my work is the form it has taken. I have been following the Ai Weiwei situation sympathetically and I am a strong advocate of social justice in my own work, so I like and support the poster Andrew made.”

I was half-expecting Shepard Fairey to do something on Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who’s been in police custody for 43 days, but somebody beat him to it.

niborama:

Fairey Use:

A poster created by Artorical calls for the release of Ai Weiwei in the style of Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant, with a Chinese text that translates to “Love the Future.”

Contacted by Niborama for comment, Fairey said the appropriation was appropriate. “I think the poster is great,” he said in an email. “I wholly endorse the message and I’m proud that an homage to my work is the form it has taken. I have been following the Ai Weiwei situation sympathetically and I am a strong advocate of social justice in my own work, so I like and support the poster Andrew made.”

(via hyperallergic)