Carl The Plastic Baby – Fauxreel
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The street artist Fauxreel (Dan Bergeron) is known for his wheat pastes and his ability to manipulate billboard advertisements. Fauxreel has come up with a new concept “Carl The Plastic Baby“.
Fauxreel explains:
“The billboards are real.
Before I go any further though, I want to say that this project was created in a tongue and cheek way, and that I like babies and kids and I would like to have one of my own.
This project definitely rides the wave between comedy, social critique and an examination of advertising. I put it out at this time of the year because the CONTACT Photography Festival is on and their theme is Pervasive Influence.
I was going to try to propose a Public Installation or register as an Open Exhibition, but I thought that this series would do better to fly in under the radar. As much of my work is illegal, if Carl was really to be a pervasive influence it needed to do it on its own.”
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I prefer Newa’s billboards, Im always a fan of redoing adverts though