Exhibition Dates: May 31–July 15, 2007
Artist’s Reception: Friday, June 22, 2007, 6:00-9:00 pm
The BoConcept Skylounge at The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
For more information, please call 212-604-9074 x105
Music by the legendary DJ Disco Wiz
In 1982, Charlie Ahearn wrote, directed, and produced a small, independent movie that released a year later, taking the world by storm as it screening in Cannes, Tokyo, and Times Square. Wild Style, the first film to unite the underground urban art forms of nascent hip-hop culture—DJing, MCing, b-boying, and graff writing—was filmed on location in the South Bronx without permits or pretensions. Some twenty-five years after it’s release, Wild Style is truly a classic, having inspired countless artists, musicians, and writers with unforgettable scenes starring the era’s most memorable personalities.
To celebrate the film’s silver anniversary, Wild Style The Sampler provides an inside look at the making of the film, it’s release, and the reverberations it caused around the world. Curated by Ahearn, this exhibition and accompanying book of the same name introduces us to a cast of characters and outrageous adventures through a collection of photographs, original artwork, production stills, and archival materials and includes the work of Ahearn, Martha Cooper, and Cathy Campbell, as well as animators Zephyr and Dr. Revolt. Featuring iconic images of legends and pioneers including the Chief Rocker Busy Bee, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Dondi White, Zephyr, Smiley 149, DJ AJ, Grandmaster Caz, GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five, Melle Mel, the Fantastic Five, The Funky Four, Sha Rock, Double Trouble, Rammellzee, Debbie Harry, Patti Astor, and Frosty Freeze, among others.
Recounting the film’s influence over the past quarter century, Wild Style The Sampler offers incomparable insight into hip hop’s most indelible film.
WILD STYLE THE SAMPLER
BY CHARLIE AHEARN
MISS ROSEN EDITIONS/POWERHOUSE BOOKS
BOOK TO BE RELEASED JULY 2007
FILM / HIP HOP / PHOTOGRAPHY
HC, 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 212 pages,
over 200 photographs, artworks, and archival documents
ISBN: 978-1-578687-364-9 $35.00
To preview the book please visit
PowerHouseBooks.com
For more information, please contact Sara Rosen, Publicity Director
powerHouse Books, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 212-604-9074 x105, Fax: 212-366-5247, email: sara@powerHouseBooks.com
