Plan 9Violence and colorsMixing vibrant colors, dark themes and gritty textures, the English illustrator Boneface creates stunning pieces. His creations are filled with an overwhelming aggression, stirring contradictory feelings in the observer.
"Things that make me suitable for my work may be those that make me unsuitable for the rest," says the artist.
The Weird World of Eerie PublicationsEerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them. Titles included Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Weird, Tales from the Tomb, Tales of Voodoo, Terrors of Dracula, 3-D Monsters and Witches' Tales. All of these magazines featured grisly, lurid color covers. *The Weird World of Eerie Publications is the title of the book published by Feral House which features astonishingly red reproductions of many covers and the most spectacularly creepy art.
Russian Criminal TattooDanzig Baldaev grew up in a Russian children's home, his father having been denounced as an enemy of the people. He was later ordered to take a job as a warden in Kresty, an infamous Leningrad prison, where he worked from 1948 to 1981. It was a job that allowed Baldaev to continue his father's work as an ethnographer – by documenting the tattoos of criminals. The photographs, drawings and texts published now over 3 extensive volumes are part of a collection of thousands tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by Baldayev. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin–these are the signs with which this hidden world of people mark and identify themselves. Here's a taste of an The Guardian’ s article inspired by the exhibit called "Russian Criminal Tattoo: Breaking the Code," which gives some background on Baldaev's life and work: “In effect, the tattoos formed a service record of a criminal's transgressions. Skulls denoted a criminal authority. A cat represented a thief. On a woman, a tattoo of a penis was the kitemark of a prostitute. Crosses on knuckles denoted the number of times the wearer had been to prison, and a shoulder insignia marked solitary confinement, while a swastika represented not a fondness for fascism but a refusal to accept the rules of prison society. A criminal with no tattoos was devoid of status, but to have a tattoo when you hadn't earned it - bearing the skull sign of a criminal authority, for example - often resulted in the tattoo being forcibly removed with a scalpel by fellow prisoners. And "grins" (depicting communist leaders in obscene or comical positions) were a way for criminal to put two fingers up at the authorities.” Heavy with symbolism and hidden meanings, the tattoos depicted a complex world of hierarchies, disgraces and achievements. Mostly anti-Soviet and frequently obscene, they are a portal into a violent world that ran alongside the worst excesses of the Communist era. http://fuel-design.com/index.php?menu=5&tattoo=1 Photographs taken by Sergei Vasiliev in the early 1990s. Dissecting Suehiro MaruoThe graphically sexual and violent nature of Suehiro Maruo’s illustrations has over the years catapulted him to stardom in the underbelly of Japanese art. His nightmarish manga fall into the Japanese category of "erotic grotesque". The stories often take place in the early years of Showa Era Japan. Maruo also has a fascination with human oddities, deformities, birth defects, and “circus freaks”. http://www.maruojigoku.com/Plan 9 RecordsPlan 9 Records, originally known as Blank Records, was an independent record label that was founded in 1977 by Glenn Danzig as a means to distribute music by his newly formed band, The Misfits. Glenn had used Plan 9 Records to release albums by The Misfits and Samhain, as well as his solo releases and one EP by The Victims. Plan 9 existed from 1978 until January 1995 when Glenn Danzig was forced to discontinue it as part of the legal settlement with The Misfits and Caroline Records. source: http://www.misfitscentral.com/Bunny SuicidesAll images by Andy Riley Destroy
Roadburn 2011April 14-17 Tilburg - Holland t.o.t.t.Thomas Ott from Zurich draws wordless scratchboard comics unsurpassed in their blackness, while their humorous contortions barely offer any consolation. In addition Ott works as an illustrator and filmmaker. Embrace Visual HellKnow the maniacal, detail-obsessed illustrator Justin Bartlett, aka VBERKVLT. Hailing from the wicked, frostbitten hills of San Diego, this self-proclaimed Black Ink Warlock has spewed forth a blasphemous array of album layouts and covers, t-shirt designs, illustrations and skateboards for a growing list of casualties that includes Gorgoroth, Aura Noir, SUNN O))), Intronaut and Watain. Bartlett is among the vanguard of new-school metal illustrators who are earning their place next to Pushead, Locke, Seagrave and Riggs as revolutionary, mold-breaking, insta-classic artists. http://www.vberkvlt.com/ |
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