CYRCLE
Very Nearly Almost #31, (2015)
London: Very Nearly Almost
One of 150 copies of the deluxe boxed set signed by CYRCLE, accompanied by a set of brass knuckles.
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Octavo. 162pp. Very Nearly Almost (VNA) was a periodical produced in the United Kingdom and operational from 2006 to 2022. The present issue emblematizes its graphically brilliant capture of the...
Octavo. 162pp. Very Nearly Almost (VNA) was a periodical produced in the United Kingdom and operational from 2006 to 2022. The present issue emblematizes its graphically brilliant capture of the intersections of street culture and social disillusionment. CYRCLE, a three-person collective based in Los Angeles, designs the covers for this issue. Much of the CYRCLE's artistic vision centers on the flux between interior and exterior art, provoking serious attention to the falsely devised superiority of the former over the latter. Their aesthetic echoes Barbara Kruger's, and their place in the historical turn of art toward popular punch aligns with the arcs of Kaws, Jeff Koons, and Shepard Fairey. This limited edition is accompanied by a set of brass knuckles which in one direction read "ORDER!" and in the other "CHAOS!," expressing the violence latent in the political rhetoric around "law and order." Housed in three-flap portfolio and accompanied by five stickers and two prints. Light rubbing and single bump to magazine, moderate overall rubs to portfolio, else a fine artifact of contemporary pop art.
