Lyrois Silhouettes Mural Limited Edition Aluminum Series

Description

This special miniature edition is executed in matte black (upper part) and glossy black (lower part) vinyl on 2mm aluminum. It is the sibling of much bigger works, sampling and remixing the silhouettes shapeset painted on walls, etched as well as decaled on glass, even printed on a collection of snowboards.  

Lyrois Silhouettes Mural Limited Edition Aluminum Series come in 140 x 55mm, it is a series of 10, with #000 and #001 being retained as artist's proof and the remaining #002 through #009 donated to support John T. Unger's Legal Defense Fund in his quest to defend himself and art in general.  

The pieces are scratch-signed and numbered on the back, and accompanied by a printed and signed certificate documenting its story and origin. No more pieces of this edition will ever be made.  

Artist bio/statement:  

In 1997, Alexander Becker drew a bunch of shapes, 17 figures gathered around the silhouette of a dancer. Since then, they come back, year after year, in always different styles and patterns, covering bags and wallpapers, populating store walls and windows, as well as being featured on tiny vinyl stickers and cut as huge decals or tableaux; elaborate arrangements on industrial materials. Repetition changes.  

Lyrois is an art scheme, an experimental brand, and a design meme in the making. Lyrois sounds similar to the french Le Roi, yet it is otherwise unrelated.  

The shapes are sampled, over and over, with the techniques du jour, and the materials we contemporarily love; bright, opaque, or translucent vinyl, bullet-resistant plexiglas, hi-tech paper, and industrial adhesive foil.  

Inspired by theatrical Gobos, Lyrois plays with light and shadows and their projections.  

The original vector-graphics, their lines combining fragile leaves and powerful graffiti strokes, are never altered themselves, their outlines always remain unchanged. Everything else evolves around these already iconic shapes.  

It is the guilt of contemporary superficiality, the struggle with lightness, and the conflict of art and design, which fuels the notoriety of Lyrois.  

Lyrois accepts custom commissions, as one-of-a-kind productions picking up collector's input and environments.  

Alexander Becker is an experienced designer, a notorious artist, a curious entrepreneur, a chaos-specialist, and the mastermind and sometimes alter ego of Lyrois.  

Meet the artist with a straight-from-the-shop style blog at http://www.lyrois.com/blog/ or see a list of works at http://www.lyrois.com/works/ where art has emerged from design which you may check out at http://alexanderbecker.net/showcase/ with logo commissions which enable the creation of new shapes in contrast to the never altered, frozen vectors of LYROIS. Connect on twitter at http://twitter.com/Lyrois.