Untitled Text Msg (Lily). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Untitled Text Msg (Private Caller). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Untitled Text Msg (David). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloglounge

English artist ADAM MCEWEN‘s work includes includes a series of obituaries written about living celebrities, haiku-like text messages taken out of context and framed and a realistic oil painting of an air conditioner. Irreverent and witty? Yes, and we like that @ WFW!

“I had a standard Nokia phone, which is the most common phone in Europe, and I got somebody to design a font that exactly matched my phone’s-pixel by pixel. Because this context is so familiar and everyone sees it every day in its most banal function, you could surprise yourself with meaning. It’s the same thing as walking down the street and seeing a sign on a store that says sorry, we’re closed. The familiarity of that opens up the possibility of throwing in the unfamiliar.”

“They’re all real texts, texted to me or texted to friends of mine who’ve forwarded them to me.”

-by ADAM MCEWEN

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