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HOLLYWOOD BABYLON is the counterpart to The Evil That Pursues Me Is The Same Evil That Pursues You, Kosuke and Cali’s first collaboration at S01 in Tokyo earlier this spring. In this follow-up collaborative exhibition, the two artists borrow methods of early hip-hop and punk methodology to assemble direct, poster-like images. Kawamura utilizes his signature “shredding” technique to remix and collage DeWitt’s iconic image/text dialectic compositions to create new dark pop interpolations of original monochromatic works that feature images of iconic and tragic celebrities.
Repurposing the title …