Australian artist Ben Frost critiques our media-obsessed society and our loss of innocence through advertising. Frost’s work subverts logos, icons and characters from popular culture and re-presents them in startling and often confronting new ways.
By using a McDonald’s french fry package as his canvas, Frost aims to re-evaluate our understand of product advertising by juxtaposing unlikely and confronting elements into some of our most loved and well known consumer icons. Frost confronts the conjoined twins of capitalism and consumerism with striking compositions that present a chaotic look at a seedy nature underlining pop culture, presenting sex and violence in a glamorous role. Most unnerving of all is that on first glance the work of Ben Frost may seem innocuous, filled with the bright palette and playful characters of childhood cartoons and sugary cereals. Instead “double entendre and satirical word play is brought out in new readings of our favourite and well known products," says Frost, "i.e. the breakfast cereal Special K features a drug dazed rabbit introduced to the packaging, Viagra and Cialis boxes juxtaposed with Mr. Burns, Pop Tarts featuring Britney Spears and Whitney Houston and a series of confronting paintings onto McDonald's fries boxes" shows us that our pre-packaged lifestyles are sold to us in colourful and dynamic boxes.
- Subject Matter: Portrait
- Created: 2013
- Inventory Number: 53
Other Work From G. S.
Personal collection of Pop-Art, Street-Art, and Graffiti.
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Work is available for Museums and/or Exhibitions as well as Scholarly and/or Scientific Projects.
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