FAILE

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FAILE is the name of an artist collaboration that was founded in Brooklyn in 1998/99 and is still active today in the field of street , urban and public art . The founding members are Aiko Nakagawa, who left FAILE in 2006 and is still active as Lady Aiko , as well as Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeal, who have been the heads of and behind FAILE since 2006. Her studio is in Williamsburg , Brooklyn.

The name FAILE is an anagram of A-life, their first joint project in 1998 on the streets of New York City . Due to the fact that the name was identical to a NYC-based shoe company, they renamed the project FAILE in 1999 and ended up calling themselves that.

FAILE is one of the commercially successful representatives of Street Art / Urban Art. Through the sale of their prints, stickers, canvases, stencils , woodwork etc. on their own website and the regular exhibitions from 2002 in Europe , North America and Asia , their popularity grew ; however, they continued to be active on the streets. They achieved their final breakthrough, according to their own statements, in 2006 a. a. with Spank the Monkey . They were also represented on the facade of Tate Modern in 2008, alongside Blu , JR and others, and at Portugal Arte 10 , set up the Wolf Within Sculpture in Ulaanbaatar in 2012 and designed the posters for the New York City Ballet in 2013 .

Within their works, FAILE play with ambivalences such as B. life-death. Recurring motifs within her oeuvre include a. the space shuttle Challenger , the FAILE Dog, the Wolfman, female figures or various vintage cars. Most of her works are signed FAILE and / or 1986, a reference to the 1986 Challenger crash.

FAILE call themselves Urban Decorators .

See also

literature

  • Peter Bengtsen: The Street Art World. Almendros de Granada Press, Lund 2014.
  • Heike Derwanz: Street Art Careers. New ways in the art and design market. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013.
  • Ilaria Hoppe: The Young City. Reflections on the relationship between architecture and urban art. In: Katrin Klitzke, Christian Schmidt: Street Art, Legenden zum Straße. Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 98-107.
  • Marcus Steinweg: Infaesthetics. No. 1. Diaphanes, Politics of Arts, Zurich / Berlin 2009.
  • Niklas Luhmann: The Art of Society. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1997.
  • Julia Reinecke: Street Art. A subculture between art and commerce. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007.
  • Pedro Soares Neves, Daniela V. de Freitas Simões (Eds.): Lisbon Street. Art & Urban creativity, 2014 International Conference. Urbancreativity.org, Lisbon 2014.
  • Johannes Stahl: Street Art. Hfullmann publishing, Potsdam 2012.
  • Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London / New York 2014.
  • Moshe Zuckermann: Art and Audience. The work of art in the age of its social evasion. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Michael Mann: Get acquainted with a faile guy. Patrick McNeil from Faile. In: Ion Magazine. 6th vol., Issue 50, 2009, pp. 22-26. issuu.com As of September 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Ryan Essmaker, Tina Essmaker: FAILE. 2013 As of September 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Michael Mann: Get acquainted with a faile guy. 2009, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Fukushi, Naoko: FAILE. In: Shift. Japan-based international online magazine features creative culture. 2004. shift.jp.org Status: September 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ Essmaker, FAILE.
  6. ↑ Michael Mann: Get acquainted with a faile guy. 2009, p. 22.