Three kids climbing a lamppost — and the title's instruction to rewind rather than fast-forward, to be kind in the process. Be Kind Rewind plays with Donk's classic street art...
Three kids climbing a lamppost — and the title's instruction to rewind rather than fast-forward, to be kind in the process. Be Kind Rewind plays with Donk's classic street art style in three screen-printed layers on 310gsm paper: high-contrast, graphic, the kind of image that looks both immediately contemporary and like it could have been made at any point in the last forty years.
The lamppost-climbing kids carry all the characteristic weight of his work without being heavy about it: growing up, friendship, the city as playground, the instruction to be kind offered without irony. Limited edition, signed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Donk
Donk is a street artist working within the paste-up tradition. He combines original photography, printmaking and hand finishing techniques.
He has been placing his work onto the streets of London and elsewhere since 2008.
His images are often inhabited by his family & friends who take on the various roles within his work. The strongly evocative and anachronistic images also remix urban history and culture, across a time line of his own making, at once referencing the past and the contemporary to make playful connections between universal themes of human strength, vulnerability and the passage of time.
