'Ambition' by Eddie Colla, 2018

Based on the artist's original street art from 2016 used as the cover art for an unauthorized 2018 Banksy calendar.

Actual print on final page of calendar on thick, fine art paper (not glossy like the other pages).

11.75 x 16.5 Inches

Limited Edition of only 40 signed calendars (#23/40).

Signed and numbered by the real artist!




ABOUT THE ART



California artist Eddie Colla, who has been up in the streets of LA for a decade, recently had one of his images “appropriated” by WalMart and sold as a “Banksy” to unsuspecting customers of the world-destroying mega-chain. To retaliate, the artist has created a print celebrating the cognitive dissonance created by Wal Mart’s use of his image. He explains more in this interview with 1XRUN.



1xRun: It’s been a few years since you create this image and slogan – did you ever think it would be hijacked by Walmart and labeled a BANKSY?



Eddie Colla: That’s the irony, isn’t it? I made a piece about individuals controlling their own fate and not making their success contingent on the approval of others. It then gets adopted by a neo-feudal corporation like Walmart. A corporation whose employment practices have created a 2 million person underclass in this country. That’s where this becomes an issue of conviction. Walmart waves American Flags, kowtows to a hypocritical right wing Christian ideology but that’s merely a marketing strategy. If Walmart actually believed in any part of that ridiculous rhetoric they would certainly never put work by an artist like me in their stores.

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16.5 x 11.75 in