MISSBUGS CUT OUT AND FADE OUT: THIS IS THE REMIX
Walk down the street, put on your headphones, turn on the tube, there’s an emerging trend in popular culture to remix culture. While artists have always recycled from their predecessors, there is something unique about re-mixing pop culture almost at the same time it is originally being created. From the music re-mixes of Girl Talk, who samples current pop music, pop culture TV about… current pop culture TV, to the crude cut and paste street art ad-remixes of Poster Boy ,this “Cut and Paste” approach to creating art is reinventing our perceptions of pop culture that we may have not even had the time to form an initial perception on to begin with.
UK street artists MissBugs are certainly at the head of this class. Miss Bugs is actually two artists. Miss, an anonymous artist born in 1979 Pencoed Wales, and Bugs, another artist born in 1979 Bristol. The two appropriate pop imagery and well-known pieces of street art like Shepard Fairey’s , Obama creation, so historically quickly and frequently, to create new pop and street art, that is something familiar and yet all together different and incredibly alluring. Their new street art “Cut Out and Fade Out” incorporates elements of the street background right into the piece, paying homage to the urban environment. We think its rowdy. Check out more of MissBugs HERE.
