Takashi Murakami Butagaz Butane Propane sign.

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Mixed media - Hand signed - 1 - 2017

Size: 49 x 71 x 5 cm.

Note from the Artist:

In July 2016 I went on a PURE EVIL PICKERS trip across the USA, visiting the following cities; Austin TX - Denver CO - Albuquerque NM - Santa Fe AZ - Sedona AZ - Las Vegas NV - Death Valley CA - Zabriskie Point CA - Bakersfield CA - Oakland, CA. Along the way I found 'rusty gold', old porcelain metal and enamel signs, and I'm starting to paint these signs with my iconic 'Nightmare Series'.. Each piece is an unique work of art. Stencil spray paint on weathered vintage metal French Butagaz L shape sign.

About Pure Evil:

To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.

In 1990 PURE EVIL left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where he spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics , thinking about stuff , making electronic music and printing t-shirts . Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist he returned to London and picked up a spraycan and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere.

Pure Evils ancestry is alleged to include eight saints: Vladimir the Great, Saint Anna of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, Saint Stephen of Hungary, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Mathilde together with Saint Thomas More, Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families.He was also a descendant of the Old English Chieftain Ailric, Kings Thane to Edward the Confessor, who held Cawthorne and much of South Yorkshire before the Conquest.