If you needed a bit of an escape for the next month or so then look no further. Futura & Rizzoli have teamed up for an amazingly intimate book that documents his nearly 50 year career including his time in the military, early art work and takes you all the way up to his collaboration’s with the Mets and his display at Beyond The Street. You’ll be treated to never-before-published reproductions of earlier paintings and drawings, interviews with key players in his career, an archive of personal photography and ephemera that reveals how important Futura has been to street art and culture. The overall quality and finish of the book itself is very very nice -as is typical with most Rizzoli books- and if you are really looking to own the ultimate copy there is a signed version with a special slip cover that can be purchased as well.
Looking through the book will certainly give you that intimate feeling that one gets sitting on a couch and looking through photo albums of a loved one. Guided through more than forty years of work -and with interviews with key players in Futura’s career- Rizzoli sums it up best as this is “at once a definitive monograph of a legend of contemporary art and an indispensable chapter in the history of graffiti.” BUY IT NOW VIA RIZZOLI
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