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Erik Brunetti

Erik Brunetti is an American artist, designer, director and founder of lifestyle and clothing brand FUCT.-Career:Brunetti's installation “Lost” was first exhibited in 1996 at OK Harris Gallery in New York. It was part of a solo exhibition, titled "Adaption from lost animal poster flyers"...

(born 5 May 1967) is an American artist, designer, director and founder of lifestyle and clothing brand FUCT

FUCT

Company founder Erik Brunetti is an American artist and designer, best known for his creation of the brand FUCT, founded in 1990. He is credited as the creator of subversive streetwear, a style of design stemming from the situationist movement, which involves subtly changing or re-appropriating...

Career

Brunetti's installation “Lost” was first exhibited in 1996 at OK Harris Gallery

OK Harris Gallery

The OK Harris Gallery is an art gallery located at 383 West Broadway in SoHo, New York City.Previously located at 485 West Broadway, in the early 1970s it hosted exhibits by Alan Vega, some of which were advertised as "Punk Music" predating the later Punk rock by some years.-History:Ivan C...

in New York

New York

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. It was part of a solo exhibition, titled "Adaption from lost animal poster flyers". Brunetti also exhibited his work in a 1998 group show titled "Channel 3" at Team Gallery in New York alongside Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....

, Jaime Levy and Pedro Ortuno.

Brunetti was invited to re-create this piece as part the 2011 MOCA

MOCA

-Museums:* Museum of Chinese in America, a museum in New York City which exhibits Chinese American history* Museum of Contemporary Art , any of several museums with this title...

Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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"Art In The Streets" exhibition by curators Jeffrey Deitch

Deitch Projects

Deitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.-History:Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few...

and Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose is a film director, art show curator and writer who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped notarize the work of artists such as Barry McGee, Steven "Espo" Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey...

, who apperceived the installation as a generator of interesting dialogue about street art and its colloquial impression...

His first feature directorial work was The Doctrine, a series of short movies used as commercials for his brand FUCT, which he directed, produced and scored. The Doctrine, part II, features Esther De Jong.

Early life

Erik Brunetti was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, May 5 1967. He is of German-Italian decent. He first started writing graffiti in the mid-1980s as DEN ONE.

Private life

Brunetti is married to French Canadian-born entrepreneur Emmelie Brunetti. They have one daughter, Bella, born in 2007.

Record production

Brunetti produced the 2004 LP by garage rock band The Superbees under his record label Sonic Fever Records.

Exhibitions

• Adaption from lost animal poster flyers (OK Harris Gallery, 1996)

• Substitute Teenager (Merry Karnowsky Gallery, 1997)

• Channel 3 (Team Gallery, 1998)

• Art In The Streets (MOCA Los Angeles, 2011)

Career

Early life

Private life

Record production

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