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Medium: Hand finished silkscreen on archival paper, signed, numbered and embossed by the artist.
Good To Know: Unframed, stored flat, supporting images available upon request.
Price: Excludes international shipping and applicable import duties / charges. Please contact our gallery for a shipping quote.
Arty-Fact: Michael “BÄST” Polimeni was born in Coney Island, New York in 1970. He lived in Brooklyn until his death in 2021.
With his mixed media art, BÄST rebelled against Western capitalism. Prolific on the Brooklyn graffiti scene, he used the fabric of the city to create his works. Found objects, food waste and advertisements – nothing was off limits.
“For my sculptures, most of the material I find washes up on a certain beach by Coney Island. Broken plastic bottles, wood, random junk that gets bleached by the sun and torn apart by waves.”
BÄST layered these objects with spray-paint, collage and stencils. He also innovated on wheat-paste techniques with street art duo, FAILE, and made bizarre ‘fly tip’ puppets with Paul Insect.
The name BÄST nods to the ways he re-imagined and ‘bästardised’ US culture.
