Maple City by 64 Colors @ Rotofugi (June 7-30)
Opening June 7th @ Rotofugi Gallery is "MAPLE CITY", a solo exhibition featuring new works by 64 Colors. Opening Reception is between 7pm to 10pm, where the artists will be in attendance. "Maple City" exhibits thru June 30th, 2013
While I await to bring you folks the "official" preview from Rotofugi, here's a look at imagery currently in the wwwild, showcasing their iconic style of imagery and story-telling, with perhaps the citizens populating "Maple City"? *GLORIOUSLY MAGICAL*
About the Artists: '64 Colors' art is like a treasure map to a confectionary wonderland. Fresh, sweet-toothed friends sprout along the path and act as guides into a fairy-tale forest. It is a world where pineapples dance, acorns go on adventures, and kittens eat ice cream. At the center of this magical place, is Marshall, 64 Colors' signature marshmallow character. Marshall's mutiny of cuteness began with a letterpress print in 2008, and he quickly bounced into the third dimension as a successful vinyl toy series. In the years that followed, Marshall appeared soft as plush and hard as wood, dark and heavy for Halloween, or light and airy as a paper lantern.
Like Marshall, 64 Colors are shape-shifters. Fueled by sugar, chocolate, caffeine, and sushi, they produce retro-style designs across a variety of product lines. Their charismatic characters are inspired by vintage cartoons, anthropomorphic edibles, and Japanese kawaii and have appeared as toys, apparel, accessories and lifestyle goods available around the world. By mixing the texture of screen-printing with the smoothness of flat blocks of color, they achieve an aesthetic that is at once comfortingly familiar and wholly their own.' (via)
Images via @64Colors
