Series 4 - “SPEAK AND BE HEARD!”
Pocko, the worlds very own 21st century art missionaries draw our attention to the insatiable voice of creative freedom: fly-poster art, travelling art and believe it or not, your art. The Pocko imagination, bottled at source brings six more visual books surging into life:
EL Cártel, a book of fly-posters that have been displayed all over Madrid, broadcasting visual allegories on western life, society and politics.
Postman, brings us a cynical collection of comic images, each one painted directly onto envelopes and posted around the world.
DIY, is the most telling edition, a blank sketchbook purpose made to encourage a global brainstorm.
In Cheap Pop, reality is not always what it seems, you find yourself pixelated inside the graphic world of computer games and Japanese pop iconography.
Hot Wheels, presents us with the obscure side of humanity’s savage love affair with the car buzzing insanely behind the wheel of a supersonic post apocalyptic drag race auto.
Faulty, the awesome grasp of fervent love, deviant and yet compelling, where image and text merge in poetic constellation. Continue reading ‘Pocko Collection Series 4′
Series 3 -War and Innocence
Culture clash! Pocko’s third set brings you visual dispatches from the frontline of cultural change. As globalisation accelerates alien cultures are brought inexorably into contact with each other and disruption and weirdness is the inevitable result… Young Japanese girls juggle individualism with traditional Japanese values, a maverick designer takes a look at Finland’s landscape through pixelated eyes, in the former Soviet Union artists and soldiers become unlikely bedfellows, in the mind of a Japanese artist order and disorder become one and on the streets of London an artist of Tamil origin samples freely from the iconography of revolutionary movements and western popular culture.
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The Pocko Collection is an intrepid exploration into the world of uncertainties…the aim, through 96 books, is to pierce the surface of the social fabric so that you may feast on the irony inside. If the first set of books displayed an extraordinary view of the everyday, the second set – hitting the shops in May 2002 – lands on the other side, to scratch below the surface of our everyday reality.
Book number 05 of the collection, Lost Weekend, is a series of illustrations springing out from the artist’s self imposed two-day weekend isolation, while number 06, Day by Day, presents a photo-history on identity and the erosion of a relationship.
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“Amusing and interesting, the collection points to a highly welcome independent publisher” - Dazed and Confused
“An intriguing collection”- Art Review
“Original and unconventional” - GQ Italy
Showcasing new talent, The Pocko Collection is a series of 96 pocket-sized visual books that merge art, design, photography, fashion and music within the fuzzy borders of contemporary culture. The books are released in sets of five every six months. 96 illustrated coloured pages per paperback title. ÂŁ4.99 each book, ÂŁ19.99 box set with 5 titles. First set of 5 books available October 2001. Next set out April 2002. Pocko Series 1:
The first set reveals: political leaders with sinister smiles in Power Smile, fractured table-football figures in Tablehead subterranean travellers in Yamanote, and stylish felt-pen characters in He said, She said. To mark the launch of this new project, an additional title will be released: Dear, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, a collection of the artist’s rejection letters. This is a launch pad for the entire collection, which throws a razor sharp, irreverent glance at contemporary urban reality. Each volume in the series is hijacked by a rising star, who then turns its 96 pages into an expression of their individual creative obsession.
Taken as a whole, the collection displays an extraordinary view of the everyday: urban, unconventional, witty and inspiring.
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