THIS ONE'S FOR ALL THE MONSTER KIDS -- CUE "DEVILOCK" (1983) RIGHT ABOUT NOW.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Martin Kippenberger piece titled "Candidature à une rétrospective," ("Candidacy for a Retrospective"), c. 1993.
"The pre-digital, appropriated, rephotographed, and often degraded image is also ubiquitous to the art of punk flyers and fanzines of the late seventies and early eighties. The radical degradation and mutilation of mainstream imagery in early punk graphic design has been so influential on contemporary visual culture that it’s easy to forget that we haven’t always been looking at things this way. Heinecken’s work shares an aesthetic connection to this genre — especially with the imagery of V. Vale’s San Francisco–based "Search & Destroy" magazine. Since SFMOMA has no copies of "Search and Destroy," nor any punk flyers from this period, I have included Martin Kippenberger’s poster "Candidacy for a Retrospective" (1993) with the artist pictured sporting an iconic MISFITS devilock."
-- MATT BORRUSO (American/Bay Area-based graphic artist/illustrator/former hardcore punk musician)
Source: www.mattborruso.org/collection-rotation.
