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① Artwork:
MariconnA T-Shirt
This 100% combed cotton heavyweight t-shirt is an exclusive re-edition of one made by the late Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri. Riffing on the iconic logo for the rock band Metallica, Echeverri created his own symbol re-appropriating a Spanish slur for “gay” and used it throughout his practice and on clothing he wore. The new edition of the t-shirt also features the artist’s name printed in red on the back below the collar.
Echeverri’s first known use of the ‘MariconnA’ logo was in 2004 as part of his video work, Mariconna-Papi soy Gay, a play on Madonna’s song “Papa Don’t Preach” in which he sings about coming out of the closet. In 2023, his friend Wolfgang Tillmans proposed making a small run of the Mariconna t-shirt to sell at a posthumous exhibition of Echeverri’s work titled Identidad Perdida at Between Bridges in Berlin. Following the exhibition, the t-shirt began appearing on Instagram and in fashion editorials.
The t-shirt reflects the artist’s interest in “merch,” both as a way for his work to have maximum accessibility and as an extension of his desire for his work and identity to be “consumed” like a brand. From the early days of his artistic practice, he made postcards, keychains, magnets, mugs and more.
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Specs:
Size Guide (Body Length x Chest Width, in inches):
- Extra Small: 26" x 16.25"
- Small: 26.75" x 18.625"
- Medium: 27.875" x 20.625"
- Large: 29" x 22.625"
- Extra Large: 30.125" x 24.625"
- Double Extra Large: 31.75" x 26.625"
③ Artist:
Juan Pablo Echeverri (1978-2022) was a renowned contemporary visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia. Working in photography and video, his extensive body of artwork developed from daily self-portraits begun as a teenager into an exploration of how ‘other people’ construct themselves and are constructed in the sight of others. Echeverri imagined people based on the media and lived situations we encounter every day, channeling them into his work. He was interested in how stereotypes coalesce around uniquely individual people, continually experimenting with his own appearance to reject a flattened, essentialist reading of identity.
The quotidian ritual of daily photographs, taken by automatic photobooths wherever he was in the world, fed and ran parallel to numerous photographic projects. Working almost exclusively in series enabled Echeverri to register the limitlessness of human diversity outside of his selection. Obsessed with the performativity of identity, his work queered fantasies of the self, oscillating between the point of view of icon and superfan.
Alongside his visual practice, Echeverri was devoted to music, being an accomplished guitarist and vocalist. He kept multiple collections of carefully classified ephemera from popular culture in his unique art- and music-studio-apartment-gallery, a base that erased all distinction between living and working.
This 100% cotton t-shirt is an exclusive re-edition of one made by the late Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri. Riffing on the iconic logo for the rock band Metallica, Echeverri created his own symbol re-appropriating a Spanish slur for “gay” and used it throughout his practice and on clothing he wore. The new edition of the t-shirt also features the artist’s name printed in red on the back.More
- Due to the limited-edition nature of this item, all sales are final.
- Manufactured and printed in Los Angeles, CA using 100% American-grown, 6.0 oz combed cotton and plastisol inks
- Slightly boxy fit with one-inch ribbed collar that sits high on the wearer's neck
- Unisex sizing; dimensions refer to size Medium (see full size guide below)
