'Art Wars' stormtrooper helmets currently available for purchase by The Chapman Brothers, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Joana Vasconcelos, Mr.Brainwash, Mat Collishaw, Ben Moore, Jason Brooks, Paul Fryer, and Alison Jackson.
Each Stormtrooper helmet has been provided by Andrew Ainsworth of Shepperton Design Studios using the original moulds he used for the first Star Wars movie in 1976. All the helmets are signed by Andrew Ainsworth and the contributing artist.
We are now accepting offers on the following artworks (see below). Please email your offers and any enquiries to info@artwars.net
THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS
2013
335 x 335 x 345 mm
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet, Mixed Media
Signed by Jake and Dinos Chapman
Asking price: £18,000
About The Chapman Brothers
Arguably, the Chapman brothers’ most ambitious work was ‘Hell’ (1999), an immense tabletop tableau, peopled with over 30,000 remodelled, 2-inch-high figures, many in Nazi uniform and performing egregious acts of cruelty. The work combined historical, religious and mythic narratives to present an apocalyptic snapshot of the twentieth-century. Tragically this work was destroyed in the MOMART fire in 2004 and the Chapmans rebuked by saying they would make another, more ambitious in scale and detail – the result of which was ‘Fucking Hell’ (2008).
The Chapmans have exhibited extensively, with numerous shows at White Cube (including Disasters of War, 1999, The Chapman Family Collection, 2002, Like a Dog Returns To Its Vomit, 2005, If Hitler Had Been A Hippy How Happy Would We Be, 2008, and Jake or Dinos Chapman, 2011) as well as Tate Britain (When Humans Walked The Earth, 2007), Tate Liverpool (Bad Art For Bad People, 2006), Modern Art Oxford (The Rape Of Creativity, 2003) and Gagosian New York (Six Feet Under, 1997).
MR.BRAINWASH
‘Campbell’s Condensed Trooper Spray’, 2013
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet, Mixed Media, fixings
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Signed by Mr.Brainwash
Asking price: £15,000
About Mr.Brainwash
After dabbling in street art, Mr. Brainwash hired local artists and contractors to create elaborate pieces under his direction. His first show, “Life is Beautiful,” received positive reviews, although his team ended up making key gallery decisions while he played the role of the hype man by calling in favors from Fairey, Banksy and other artists.
Brainwash's restlessness translated into an enormous art show with hundreds of pieces, created by a team of graphic designers under his guidance. His work is a cavalcade of styles, themes and subjects, many of them borrowed from other artists.
Guetta’s restlessness translated into an enormous art show with hundreds of pieces, created by a team of graphic designers under Guetta’s guidance. His work is a cavalcade of styles, themes and subjects, many of them borrowed from other artists.
Read more at http://www.stencilrevolution.com/profiles/mr-brainwash/#PuUEPSkGsubf4lKj.99
Guetta’s restlessness translated into an enormous art show with hundreds of pieces, created by a team of graphic designers under Guetta’s guidance. His work is a cavalcade of styles, themes and subjects, many of them borrowed from other artists.
Read more at http://www.stencilrevolution.com/profiles/mr-brainwash/#PuUEPSkGsubf4lKj.99
“There’s no one quite like Brainwash, really,” Banksy said, “Even if his art does look quite like everyone else’s.”
The show instantly made Brainwash a pop art superstar. He sold nearly $1 million in art in the week after “Life is Beautiful,” which set the stage for mainstream acceptance of Mr. Brainwash’s unique style.
www.mrbrainwash.com
YINKA SHONIBARE MBE
‘IPod Invader’, 2013
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Glass beads, Dutch wax African cotton textile
Signed by Yinka Shonibare MBE
Asking price: £8,000
About Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the ‘Young British Artists’ generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London.
Over the past decade, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation.
Shonibare was a Turner prize nominee in 2004. In 2013 he was elected Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and internationally at leading museums worldwide. In September 2008, his major mid-career survey commenced at the MCA Sydney and toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York in June 2009 and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC in October 2009 . In 2010, 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' became his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
www.yinkashonibarembe.com
JOANA VASCONCELOS
‘Crochet Vader’, 2013
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet
Azores Crushed Lace
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Signed by Joana Vasconcelos
Asking price: £12,000
About Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris in 1971 and now lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Biennale affirmed her career within the international art circuit with the piece A Noiva (The Bride), a 20 ft. high chandelier made of over 25,000 OB tampons .
Moments such as her presence in Japan’s Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, in 2006; “Contaminação”, exhibited in 2008, at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, in Brazil; or the group exhibition Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works From François Pinault Foundation Collection, presented in 2009 at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, led to a notable international career. She was also in the grand retrospective, “Sem Rede (Netless)”, in 2010, at Museu Colecção Berardo in Portugal.
www.joanavasconcelos.com
photo credit: © Unidade Infinita Projectos
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BEN MOORE
‘StormOffSki’, 2010
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet
6000 Swarowksi Xilion Rose Crystals
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Signed by Ben Moore
Asking Price: £6,500
‘StormOffSki’, 2013
Acrylic Capped ABS Storm Trooper helmet
Black Velvet, Assortment of Swarowksi Crystals
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Signed by Ben Moore
Asking Price: £8,000
‘Crushing Force’, 2013
Melted and crushed Acrylic capped ABS Stormtrooper helmet.
100 x 100 x 125 mm
Signed by Ben Moore
Asking Price: £3,500
Ben Moore is the founder of Art Below, and the creator of 'Art Wars'. He first teamed up with Andrew Ainsworth, maker of the original Stormtrooper from
Star Wars in 2007, and began using the iconic figure as a force for art.
Early Art Wars works by Moore include
the 'Pink Stormtrooper'
which appeared in the London city riots in 2009 and in December 2010 he carried out a 'Stormtrooper strip tease' in front of the Houses of Parliament to a screaming audience of student protestors.
His 'Art Wars' works and installations have been exhibited at the Tate Modern, Somerset House, the V&A, and he most recently organised, curated and took part in 'Art Wars' at the Saatchi Gallery featuring artists including Damien Hirst, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Jake and Dinos Chapman to raise money to support the search for his brother Thomas Moore who has been missing for 10 years.
photo credit: ©Art Wars Ltd.
JASON BROOKS
‘Ayrton’ 2013
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Paint/Polycarbonate and Fixings
Signed by Jason Brooks
Asking Price: £8,000
photo credit: ©Francis Ware 2013
Jason Brooks was born in London on February 23 1969. He grew up by the sea in Brighton, England, and began drawing and painting at an unusually young age - receiving his first freelance commissions in his early teens.
Brooks studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martin's and began working regularly for British Vogue after winning the Vogue Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration. While at CSM, he began travelling widely, drawing and painting colourful travel journals.
Travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire. Brooks' artwork has provided the visual identity for record labels, most notably Hedkandi, who have achieved sales in excess of 5 million albums featuring his artwork. He is noted in particular as being one of the first artists to embrace and popularise computer technology in the field of fashion illustration.
PAUL FRYER
‘Mud Trooper’ 2013
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Papier Mache and Air-dry Clay
Signed by Paul Fryer
Asking Price: £6,500
About Paul Fryer
Paul Fryer’s work has been bought by some of the most well-heeled collectors in the world, including Damien Hirst and Karl Lagerfeld. Damien Hirst kick-started his career when he convinced the artist to remake a piece of his work from the 80s seven years ago.
He says about 'Mud Trooper'
I made the Mud Trooper because the stormtrooper helmet reminded me of the Papua New Guinea Mudmen and their strange headgear. I like the archetypal, inhuman element of the stormtrooper mask. It suggested ritual and magic, and the wonder and fear this imbues.
I recalled the wonder and fear of seeing Star Wars as a boy and the feeling of amazement that Lucas had managed to bring the future to us so comprehensively. But everything must pass, and even that galaxy far away must see it's wonders eventually crumble and become obsolete and forgotten. I thought on the twilight of the Gods and the books of Von Daniken. That said the image of the Mudman seems somehow outside of time and space, and as such is not diminished by the superficial anachronism inherent in the idea of a Mud Trooper.
www.paulfryer.net
photo credit: ©Bran Symondson 2013
MAT COLLISHAW
‘Star F*cker’ 2013
C-type glossy print. (edition 1 of 1)
100 x 135.78 cm (print size)
Asking Price: £6,000
About Mat Colishaw
Mat Collishaw received his BFA from Goldsmith College, London, in 1989 and began his career exhibiting the acclaimed work Bullet Hole alongside his Goldsmiths contemporaries at the legendary show “Freeze” in 1989, and at “Modern Medicine” in 1990. Both shows were curated by Collishaw’s long-term friend Damien Hirst and are renowned for the rise to prominence of the YBAs (Young British Artists).
Over the past decade, his work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows around the world, including: Cohen Gallery, New York (1992); Camden Arts Centre, London (1996); Duty Free Spirits, Lisson Gallery, London (1997); Galeria d’Arte Moderne, Bologna, Italy (1999); Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2000); Mat Collishaw, Art & Public, Geneva (2004); Shooting Stars, Haunch of Venison, London (2008); Hysteria, Freud Museum, London (2009); and Retrospectre, BFI Southbank, London (2010). Collishaw's monumental site-specific work, Magic Lantern, was commissioned by The Victoria & Albert Museum and was installed in the cupola above the entrance from November 2010 - April 2011. www.matcollishaw.com
ALISON JACKSON
‘Helmet’ 2013
Framed C-Type print. Limited edition of 10. Dimensions: 40”x 36”
Signed by Alison Jackson
Asking Price: £2,800
About Alison Jackson
Alison Jackson is renowned for her elaborate ‘spoof’ productions which give an imaginary and amusing behind- the-scenes look into the world of celebrities and royals.
She became notorious in England in 1999 for producing black-and-white photographs including images that apparently showed Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed with a mixed-racelove child. The photographs were part of her graduation series entitled Mental Images. She has gone on to produce similarly obscured photos and films of celebrity look-alikes in surprising, shocking or strange situations, portraying them, as she has described it, 'depicting our suspicions'.
As part of the Art Wars collection, Jackson has created this stunning photograph inspired by the work of Helmut Newton.
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ART WARS POSTER FOR SALE
Art Below are releasing a special edition of 100 posters on semi matt art paper, size 500mm x 1029mm, featuring a selection of the helmets from the 'Art Wars' collection unveiled at the Saatchi gallery in October 2013, and signed by the founder of the project Ben Moore. Priced at £95 each.
This poster design was featured as a 3 meter wide billboard by Art Below at Regents Park throughout October.
A free mobile App was made specially by artist Erin Ko to enable tube users at Regent’s Park station to view and explore the artwork in 3D with their phones. You can see a clip of the app in action here. The app is still available to use with the limited edition poster now on offer.
To go ahead and make a purchase of this limited edition poster please contact postersales@artbelow.org.uk
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ABOUT ART WARS
'Art Wars' curated by Ben Moore of Art Below exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in October 2013 and was showcased on billboard posters by Art Below throughout Regent's Park Station. Contributing artists include Damien Hirst, David Bailey and the Chapman Brothers.
Proceeds from 'Art Wars' go to the ‘Missing Tom’ fund, which was started up specifically to raise money to support the search for Ben Moore's brother Thomas Moore.
Tom left his family home in 2003. He was aged 31 years old. His friends and family have not heard from him since then. Now ten years on and with the support of the Missing People Charity, his family continue to search for Tom and have started up a website www.missingtom.com A short narrated film about Tom can be viewed here.
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