Will Sweeney
2018.3.2 (Fri) - 5.24 (Thu)
Diesel art gallery presents
‘Vorpal Sword’an exhibition by acclaimed graphic artist Will Sweeney from
2018.3,2(Fri) – 5.24 (Thu). Vorpal Sword is the first major solo exhibition by
Will Sweeney in Tokyo for 11 years. Will Sweeney is known for his diverse range
of work from record sleeves, T-shirt and toy designs to fashion textiles,
animated music videos and advertising campaigns for high end clients as well as
his own psychedelic adventure comic ‘Tales from Greenfuzz’. The newly created
work featured in Vorpal Sword represents Will’s ongoing fascination with post
apocalyptic worlds, microcosmic evolution and fantastical technology. The title
is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem, Jabberwocky (from Through The Looking
Glass).
A retro/futuristic English
landscape, mutated beyond recognition, is populated by mythical creatures and
freakish characters, living in makeshift shelters, conducting strange rituals
and harvesting the polluted soil. Meanwhile the urban centres have fallen to
ruin and decadence, ruled by a twisted elite, who exploit the populace for food
and entertainment. Monsters roam the landscape, real and imagined, only those
able to wield The Vorpal Sword stand a chance of defeating them.
The new pieces are rendered
in garish colour and in a larger scale than much of Will’s previous work,using
watercolour, gel marker brush and ink, Will has developed a looser more
freeform style in these pieces. Other work in the show includes a series of
small scale paintings of tiny universes which display Will’s fascination with
biological & medical illustration, depicting visions of worlds within
worlds, cross sections of alien organisms and alien technology from eldritch
dimensions. These paintings were generated from free flowing ink paintings, and
refined with ballpoint pen to create an otherworldly atmosphere that suggests
1970’s science fiction art, coral reefs and primitive structures hewn from an
alien substance.
In addition there will be a
new animation piece made in collaboration with London artist/musician Subway
Lung and several older, unseen pieces, sketches books and collected ephemera
from Will’s archive.
The title Vorpal Sword
signifies a vital creative energy, a life-force beaming directly from the
subconscious which will vanquish monsters and destructive forces. The painting
Energy Cannot Be Destroyed perhaps represents the idea behind the title best, a
chaotic maze of mutated machines and strange objects burst and sputter volatile
substances in a feedback loop of demented propulsion. The monsters of mundanity
and inertia are defeated by the metaphysical blade of The Vorpal Sword. The
life cycle goes on, cross pollinating and evolving.
There will be a range of
exclusive special products on sale during the exhibition including two new
limited edition silkscreen prints as well a new book zine featuring work from
the show.
https://www.diesel.co.jp/art/en/vorpal-sword/
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