The New York multimedia luminary celebrates five decades of groundbreaking work in a new retrospective exhibit
‘I think the show is going to be awesome. As I used to say back in the day, we’re gonna rock the house.’‘I think the show is going to be awesome. As I used to say back in the day, we’re gonna rock the house.’ultimedia artist Futura 2000’s new career retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts has been decades in the making – and has only come about due to years of intense perseverance.
Futura titled the subway car piece Break because he saw the work as doing just that – breaking from typical motifs of elaboration and lettering that were then considered essential components of graffiti art to pursue abstraction. Looking back, he now regards it as “the genesis of everything”, insofar as his creative efforts go. “When I did Break I was trying to come into this new creative space,” he said.
Breaking Out is touted to be the largest retrospective of Futura’s career – in fact, he views it as his first true museum show – and it follows on the heels of a similarly titled show at the University of Buffalo that ran until last winter. This version of the exhibit goes deep into the artist’s history, having received a wealth of loans from private collectors, in order to present a full picture of Futura’s history and development as a creative force.
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