Ambushed - DK

In this age of image, saturated with selfies and YouTube celebrity, Rivans’s print offers a refreshing tonic: maybe there’s more to life than meets the ego. As Comedian and actor Danny Kaye gets overgrown with spiky palm fronds, there’s an eco message sprouting here, too: maybe, just maybe, it's mother nature who will have the last word. Finished with a strip of golden glitter, Rivans embeds a glimmer of optimism above all the sci-fi surreality; because somewhere beyond the clouds, the sun is still shining. Harking back to classic collage aesthetics – think Hannah Höch, think Richard Hamilton, think Robert Rauschenberg – ‘Ambushed starring Danny Kaye’ nails that vintage cinema feel. This is technicolor for the twenty-first century.