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"  \u201CHaving Pure Evil as a nickname is a bit of a joke,\u201D the artist otherwise known as Charley confesses.  \u201CIt\u2019s a license to have fun with dark imagery. It reflects the darkness that\u2019s in the world right now. You can\u2019t just ignore it and do a nice picture of a unicorn. Unless it\u2019s a unicorn with a rocket launcher on its head.\u201D  Pure Evil is one of the key British artists at the epicenter of the booming international street art scene. He has exhibited in China, Russia, Mongolia, Brazil, USA and all over Europe, and most recently had a sellout exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery with his Nightmare Series.  That collection was inspired by Warhol and inspired the \u201Cculture of the thumbnail\u201D \u2013 looking at the dark side of celebrity worship.  Charley is heavily influenced by American Pop Art which came after World War II, both as a celebration of the country&amp;#039;s economic boom and a comment on its excesses. Street art and graffiti in turn came out of Pop, exploding onto trains and inner city buildings in the 70\u2019s.  It is this and Pure Evil\u2019s ancestry \u2013 he is a descendent of the beheaded 16th century social philosopher\u00A0Sir Thomas More \u2013 that informs his aesthetic. Like his distant relative, he likes to explore the wreckage of utopian dreams in his work.  You can buy &amp;#039;Eddie Fisher\u2019s Nightmare&amp;#039; (above) in a signed limited edition copy from\u00A0pureevilclothing.com, or just look out for his signature evil bunny on walls \u00A0around London and the world.  *** SEE ALSO:Art You Should Know About #1: Mario Wagner\u00A0*** "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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