~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC ‘ / ‘PROJECT GHANA’ OPENING TO-NIGHT FRI
ALFREDO . . wants BENICIO DEL TORO to play him in the new ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ flick.
APART FROM from his huge & fully functional shooting gallery installation at ‘QUIET’, Alfredo is also famous for his real . . ‘FAKE BASQUIAT’ caper, which merited him 2 years in the ‘THE BIG HOUSE’ / Metropolitan Corrections.
this is a recent one, from late last year 2017.
he’s just born that way. he can Basquiat standing on his head.
he can do Basquiat better than Basquiat can.
ps: if you look at the ‘texts’, swirling around in the background, though . . you will see references . . . to stuff that is happening now, so they can’t possibly be . . by the real Basquiat.
except now, he signs them off as his own, as the ‘REAL FAKE BASQUIAT FORGER’, instead of pasing them off for the real goods – to unsuspecting big ticket collectors, phony artist ‘certificate’ and all.
This is one of Alfredo’s newest pieces of his own . . work.
a portrait. he usually does guns, but he’s actually a wild portrait artist & he takes great photo head shots.
it is done in the collaged / hand-made Elmer’s white glued paper diy technique he perfected in prison, because he wans’t allowed to have any drawing or painting materials. he did portraits of the mobsters & con men around him, using coffee packages and jello as pigments, apparently he was a huge sensation.
they are quite lifelike.
Alfredo has this portrait, and maybe more . . in a show opening tonight.
FRI FEB 2, 2018 / 8 – 10 PM
‘PROJECT GHANA’ / ‘BEAUTY FOR FREEDOM’ at THE FLAT NYC
23 W 24TH ST, NYC, NY 10010