{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Street Art"],"cover":{"alt":"","height":2124,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/dface-studio-visit/dface-artwork.jpg","width":1400},"credit":"","date":"2009-09-09T16:47:47Z","description":"This week, the new urban pop art show by D*Face will start in New York. To warm up, there is an actual interview and new artworks! Take a look...","html":"\u003cp\u003eMy friends from Arrested Motion visited the studio by British street artist \u003cstrong\u003eD*Face\u003c/strong\u003e some days ago and made an interesting interview with the man himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eD*Face - Unamerican Graffiti\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you planning on subjecting the viewers of the exhibition to some kind of aversion therapy and bombard them with graphically violent images?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eD*Face:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, the title obviously comes from “A Clockwork Orange,” and the scene where Alex has his eyes pinned open. It’s not meant to be taken literally from the title.\nThe idea is that’s what happens anyways in our lives, whether you like it or not. Advertising is a very cruel and clever game that’s played and I’m fascinated with the things that are communicated to us and how they are communicated to us over our life cycle – daily, to yearly, to decades – and what parts of that you retain, and when and why.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is essentially a culmination of what goes on inside my head when you have that semi dream-like state where you are falling between awake and asleep and your brain is trying to decipher the day and trying to store what’s relevant and get rid of what’s irrelevant. [\u0026hellip;]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eD*Face alias Dean Stockton began his career over 10 years ago by simply drawing characters. Since then a lot of time has passed and the pencil drawing, illustration and design courses visiting head has become a creative multimedia street artist.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wanted to encourage people to not just to “see”, but to look at what surrounds them and their lives… (\u003ca href=\"http://www.dface.co.uk/why\"\u003eD*Face\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis new show, called “Ludovico Aversion Therapy / All Your Dreams Belong To Us”, will open this Saturday at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. So check out \u003ca href=\"http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/09/interview-studio-visit-dface/\"\u003ethis new interview\u003c/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http://verynearlyalmost.com/blog/2009/09/09/new-work-from-new-york-by-dface/\"\u003ehis recent artworks\u003c/a\u003e to be up to date!\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nMy friends from Arrested Motion visited the studio by British street artist **D*Face** some days ago and made an interesting interview with the man himself.\n\nD*Face - Unamerican Graffiti\n\n\n\u003e **AM:** Are you planning on subjecting the viewers of the exhibition to some kind of aversion therapy and bombard them with graphically violent images?\n\u003e\n\u003e **D*Face:** Yes, the title obviously comes from “A Clockwork Orange,” and the scene where Alex has his eyes pinned open. It’s not meant to be taken literally from the title.\n\u003e The idea is that’s what happens anyways in our lives, whether you like it or not. Advertising is a very cruel and clever game that’s played and I’m fascinated with the things that are communicated to us and how they are communicated to us over our life cycle – daily, to yearly, to decades – and what parts of that you retain, and when and why.\n\u003e\n\u003e This is essentially a culmination of what goes on inside my head when you have that semi dream-like state where you are falling between awake and asleep and your brain is trying to decipher the day and trying to store what’s relevant and get rid of what’s irrelevant. [...]\n\nD*Face alias Dean Stockton began his career over 10 years ago by simply drawing characters. Since then a lot of time has passed and the pencil drawing, illustration and design courses visiting head has become a creative multimedia street artist.\n\n\u003e I wanted to encourage people to not just to “see”, but to look at what surrounds them and their lives… ([D*Face](http://www.dface.co.uk/why))\n\nHis new show, called “Ludovico Aversion Therapy / All Your Dreams Belong To Us”, will open this Saturday at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. So check out [this new interview](http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/09/interview-studio-visit-dface/) or [his recent artworks](http://verynearlyalmost.com/blog/2009/09/09/new-work-from-new-york-by-dface/) to be up to date!\n","tags":["D*Face"],"title":"D*Face Studio Visit","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/dface-studio-visit/"}