Mambo Collection
c1985-2000. Thirty (30) posters consisting four colour screenprints and twenty-six (26) colour and process lithographs, twenty-seven (27) posters signed in image lower left or right, sizes range from 59.6 x 42cm to 148 x 98cm. Repaired tears or missing portions, minor scuffing, crinkles or creases. Fifteen posters linen-backed. Artists include Reg Mombassa (x 9), David McKay (x 4), Jim Mitchell (x 2), Richard Allan (x 5), Steve Bliss (x 1), Jeff Raglus (x 1), Maria Kozic (x 2), Marcelle Lunam (x 1), and Rockin’ Jelly Bean (x 2). The posters cover a broad range of events, from art openings to surf competitions, as well as advertisements for their clothing lines (including Mambo Goddess), many while commenting on tropes of ‘Australianisms’. Mambo Graphics was founded in 1984 by Dare Jennings and Andrew Rich as a backyard business screen printing T-shirts relating to surf culture. The brand has come to be known for their “irreverent combination of art, humour, music and surf.” The artists and graphic designers they commissioned were “anarchic and acerbic, they launched inspired anti-establishment ideas, they could draw, they were convinced of their own brilliance and they were unafraid…Its artists and wordsmiths egged each other on, picking the pompous and elevating the everyday into mock heroic eminence.” Ref: Waldren, The Life and Times of Reg Mombassa, 2009, p219; NGV; MAAS. A detailed list is available upon request.
Item #CL193-139
Price (AUD): $33,000.00 other currencies