Obey, André the Giant (3), silkscreen, 45,5x61

Screen print by Obey (Shepard Farey) showing the stylised face of André the Giant, a famous French wrestler of Bulgarian and Polish origin. This face became the logo of the Obey brand. 

This illustration is part of a triptych alluding to travel, the movement of people between countries and continents, globalisation and international trade. Here, in a kind of collage of images, we see the word "Station" at the top and an image of an aeroplane at the bottom. Everything recalls the interdependence in which today's society lives, in which everything is interdependent on everything: the effect of globalisation.

As is typical of his style, this work is the result of a fluid communication, it can be defined as a liquid work: in the digital age an image can be reproduced in infinite forms and ways, from the multiple of an author, as can be a silkscreen, up to the digital virality, which helps the image itself to take depth and credibility.

The screenprint is hand-signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner and is dated 2019.