Obey, Andrè the Giant, silkscreen, 90x61 cm

Screen print by Obey (Shepard Farey) depicting the stylized face of André the Giant, a famous French wrestler of Bulgarian and Polish descent. 

The image first appeared in 1989, in the form of stickers, when Obey launched a campaign called "André the Giant has a posse" in which he plastered the city of Providence with stickers featuring this illustration. Soon the walls of almost the whole world were familiar with this face, which became the logo of the Obey brand. 

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 silkscreen is manually signed by the artist at the bottom right and dated 2019.