个人简历
Trevor Andrew(特雷弗 · 安德鲁),又名“Gucci Ghost”(古驰小精灵),加拿大当代艺术家。Trevor Andrew 因其原始、不经修饰的创作美学和对流行艺术敏锐度而享誉国际。Trevor Andrew 艺术的视觉语言根植于上世纪90年代的朋克和滑板艺术,并用创作使其适应数字媒体过度饱和的当代社会。Andrew 的作品以批判的态度探索当代社会经济结构中的种种环节,特别是大众消费主义。他用艺术提出了有关“真实”与“感知真实”的问题,并通过“真实”与“奢华”的对比加以表达。
2013年,Trevor Andrew 通过重塑著名时尚品牌古驰的徽标,创作了其标志性的古驰涂鸦形象。他将古驰涂鸦涂遍了废弃的物品和服装,通过对这些废弃物的再次创作,“篡夺”了时尚品牌标识本身的力量。这次开创性的艺术创作迅速引起了全球性的关注,也获得了古驰创意总监 Alessandro Michele 的注意。2016年,Alessandro Michele 提议与 Trevor Andrew 进行颠覆性的合作,由 Trevor Andrew 为古驰设计推出一系列联名定制产品。这次联名的成功使得Trevor Andrew得到艺术和时尚界的广泛认可,并为他带来了更多的联名机会。Trevor Andrew 和古驰的合作至今仍在继续。
奥林匹克滑雪运动员的职业背景赋予了Trevor Andrew独到的表现张力。对于运动员来说,表现力和耐力是运动的根本。同样,作为艺术家,这种对表现力与耐力的偏爱也转化成为Andrew多产的艺术实践。滑板运动、涂鸦文化和街头美学塑造了Trevor Andrew独特的视觉语言。Andrew独创的元素与符号成为了其丰富的艺术、音乐和电影作品的内容基础。
Trevor Andrew 的艺术合作涵盖多种媒介与流派,包括为音乐家制作专辑封面和为各种品牌设计胶囊系列产品。Trevor Andrew 还与漫画家 Drew Toonz 合作创作了动画项目“No Work City”,其中的主角“Trouble Andrew”和“Emo Cat”就是两位艺术家的第二自我。
Trevor Andrew 的艺术作品在世界各地的美术馆均有展出,其中包括纽约戴奇美术馆、洛杉矶马卡罗内美术馆以及上海宝龙美术馆。
部分展览经历:
2019 “Comics & Nonsense”,HVW8 Art Design Gallery,洛杉矶,美国
2019 “WAVELENGTH:制造之外”,雅昌艺术馆,深圳,中国
2018 “WAVELENGTH:出厂设置”,宝龙美术馆,上海,中国
2017 “THE REAL BUY”,MILK Gallery,纽约,美国
Trevor Andrew BIO
Trevor Andrew, a.k.a. Gucci Ghost, is a multi-disciplinary artist. He is internationally known for his raw DIY aesthetic and pop art sensibility. His visual language is rooted in punk and skate culture of the 1990's that has adapted for our current state of media saturation. Andrew's work critiques and explores contemporary socio-economic structures, specifically regarding popular consumerism. He brings to the foreground questions regarding "real" vs. "its perception": "real" vs. "luxury".
In 2013, Andrew created a graffiti persona appropriating and reimagining the iconic Gucci logo, of the famed fashion house. He drew his version of the luxury brand's signature on discarded objects and clothing. In the repurposing of these banal items he usurped the power of the brand identity. This seminal body of work quickly garnered a substantial attention including that of Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele. In 2016, Michele had the radical idea to collaborate with Andrew on designs and commission a customized collection. This successful partnership has given the artist the recognition to secure various collaborations and continue his relationship with Gucci.
Emerging from a sports background in which an athlete as an artist is a performer. Performance and endurance is the root of athleticism. As so too does this penchant for performance endurance translate to a prolific artistic practice.
The aesthetic and culture of skate, graffiti and street environment informed Andrew educating his specific visual language. His self-developed semiotics became the content from which a platform for his artwork, music and film was built.
Other examples of Andrew's creative work has been executed in a variety of media, disciplines, and platforms including making album art for musicians and capsule collections for a variety of brands. Andrew is also the co-creator with Drew Toonz of an animation project, No Work City, in which the two main characters "Trouble Andrew" and "Emo Cat" are based on the duo's alter egos.
Trevor's fine art has been exhibited at galleries around the world including Deitch Projects - New York, Maccarone Gallery - Los Angeles and Powerlong Museum, Shanghai.
Past Exhibtions:
2019 "WAVELENGTH: Made in Illusion", Artron Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2019 "Comics & Nonsense", HVW8 Art Design Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2018 "WAVELENGTH: RE-SET", Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 "THE REAL BUY", MILK Gallery, New York, USA