CASA VOGUE ITALY
I'm pleased to be featured in the most recent CASA VOGUE issue, a supplement coming along with this month regular VOGUE ITALY.
NEW WORK
In the last weeks i finished a couple of projects including some commissioned illustrations for the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Switzerland), LeMonde (France), Harvard Business Magazine (Germnay) and Magnum Ice Cream (Germany).
ABSOLUT VODKA BLANK EDITION
Following the recent ABSOLUT BLANK campaign, ABSOLUT announces the ABSOLUT VODKA BLANK EDITION, designed by German artist Mario Wagner. The limited edition bottle features Wagner's unique graphic expression, and draws strongly from the artwork he did for the ABSOLUT BLANK initiative a few months ago. The space-inspired BLANK EDITION will be available in seven markets, starting March 2012.
META DESIGN MAGAZINE
I just finished some illustrations for the Meta Design Magazine.
THE STANDARD HOTEL, HOLLYWOOD
I was pleased to do an installation piece at The STANDARD Hotel Hollywood.
The box is located directly behind the front desk where a lounging woman resides between the hours of 8pm to 12am.
The installation will be up for are month and is completed by two medium size artworks and three plexi glas boxes.

The Standard Blog
BLK/MRKT GALLERY EDITIONS
BLK/MRKT Gallery created a gorgeous set of screen prints of my work.
They can be purchased together to form a diptych or separately.

4 color screenprint on 100% cotton rag, 11 x 14 inches, edition of 75, signed and numbered.

Check them out!
NEW WORK
In the last few weeks I finished a couple of illustrations for magazines and clients like the Wall Street Journal (USA), The Atlantic (USA), Washington Post (USA), Essence Magazine (USA), United Airlines Magazine "Hemisphere" (USA), Manager Magazine (Germany), J'n'C Magazine (Germany), Einmalig Magazine (Germany), Cicero Magazine (Germany) and Weltwoche (Switzerland), just to name a few.
LeBASSE PROJECTS / LOS ANGELES
OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 5, 2011
'The Future Is Not What It Used To Be'
A group exhibition curated by Mike Stilkey

LeBasse Projects, Culver City
October 8th - November 5th 2011
Artist reception: Saturday, October 8th, 6-9pm


Los Angeles, CA - LeBasse Projects is proud to announce, 'The Future Is Not What It Used To Be' a group exhibition curated by Mike Stilkey. Stilkey is one of the represented artists at LeBasse Projects and this exhibition is his first curatorial effort.

The title of the show was inspired by a quote from the French poet Paul Valery, "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." This idea resonated with Stilkey because the future seems to show as much promise as when we were young.

Stilkey suggests: "Our vision of the future is that society will evolve and progress and our situation will improve. As you get older you realize that these things often do not turn out the way you expected. I think this is especially relevant at this time, with global concerns and anxiety around climate change, economic and financial crises, environmental destruction, etc. When I was a kid, I thought that in 30 years I'd be flying around in a Jetson's car, not worrying about global warming and widespread extinction of species."

Artists invited to participate include: Kelsey Brookes, Brian Dettmer, Katrin Fridriks, Jim Houser, Dave Kinsey, Ryan McLennan, Cleon Peterson, Dena Schuckit, Aaron Smith, Tara Tucker, Mario Wagner and Mike Stilkey. Artists were selected because of the nature of their work and how it resonated with Stilkey's own vision of the future. While the theme of the show is based on the poetic title, Stilkey has left artists open to interpreting the ideas entirely at their own direction.
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE / FEATURE
October's issue of Juxtapoz Magazine includes a 14 page interview I gave one sunny day this past summer after a little too much coffee.
In addition to the interview the issue showcases many of my fine art works over my last 3 years of living in San Francisco.
Check it out!

Download the article here: PDF
ABSOLUT VODKA / ABSOLUT WAGNER
In collaboration with a new generation of artists, ABSOLUT VODKA is introducing ABSOLUT BLANK, a global creative movement, in which ABSOLUT appears as a catalyst for contemporary leading-edge creativity.

The 18 artists participating in ABSOLUT BLANK represent a variety of creative disciplines from across the globe; from drawing, painting and sculpting to film making and digital art. Among the artworks are UVA's high intensity, bright and striking light installations, Mario Wagner's attention-grabbing cut-out imagery, the colourful and playful graphic design of Aesthetic Apparatus, the bold illustrations of Dave Kinsey and the detailed work of Good Wives and Warriors.

ABSOLUT has always challenged conventions through creative collaborations with artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, and more recently Ellen von Unwerth and Spike Jonze. ABSOLUT BLANK is a daring new chapter for ABSOLUT.

“In ABSOLUT BLANK, ABSOLUT has boldly made its iconic bottle into a blank canvas to inspire artists throughout the world to collaborate and fill it with creativity. We brought together creative collaborators from a variety of disciplines and watched the journey from pure white canvas to exceptional pieces of art. The result depicts how artists and creativity are inspired through ABSOLUT,” says Mark Hamilton, Global Marketing Director at The Absolut Company.


View the commercial here
ABSOLUT BLANK COMMERCIAL

ABSOLUT BLANK on YOUTUBE

For more information please visit
ABSOLUT BLANK
PASTED
LARGE SCALE LIMITED ART EDITION
The work features an elusive man on horseback with a looming dark forest and technicolor rainbow river.
Imagine a wall, now imagine that same wall with this large scale image adding elements of mystery, fantasy and just plain coolness to that space which formerly lacked all of those things.

The original works were reproduced in an offset process on affiche paper, which is also used for street billboarding.
All works of art are strictly limited - each motif is issued in a edition of 100 copies and comes with a signed certificate.

www.just-pasted.com
LAZARIDES GALLERY / NEWCASTLE (UK)
APRIL 22 - MAY 21, 2011
Outsiders Newcastle, the North-East gallery of curator-director Steve Lazarides, presents 'Cluster 10', the debut solo UK exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Mario Wagner.

Wagner’s colourful and arresting style has been used to great effect in premium style titles like Esquire and Vanity Fair. His canvasses depict a contrasting mythos: free-thinking and colourful retro-futurist scenes are blighted by contemporary intruders, well-tailored men seemingly up to no good, made all the more intimidating and inhuman by their balaclavas.

The paintings’ collage backgrounds harken back to the 50s and 60s when science fact raced to keep up with science fiction. It was an era when technology was embraced unthinkingly, and man was only a short step from realising a total leisure culture or his destiny amongst the stars, depending on his adventurousness of spirit. The pictures’ protagonists however pursue a very different agenda. Slick moral relativists from a more recent age, they ride out with sinister intent, set traps, stew plots, and bury their dead clandestinely in compelling micro-narratives that trigger the less welcome elements of our imagination. Tomorrow’s world has not been realised, nor was it ever likely to be. A lack of personal jet packs is the least of our concerns.

Fear and excitement lustfully combine as the viewer is propelled into Wagner’s opulent but often threatening dreamscapes. Who and what do we sympathise with more - the giddily assured optimism represented in Wagner’s canvasses by post-war science fiction, or the shrewd self-preserving realism of the figures who slink through it?

If you could forgive the Man from UNCLE for fiddling his expenses, or likewise feel that the future needs guardians fast, then 'Cluster 10' will push your buttons.

Lazarides Gallery / The Outsiders
77 Quayside
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3DE
United Kingdom

www.theoutsiders.net
SKODA FABIA MONTE CARLO
My recent work for the new SKODA FABIA Monte Carlo takes one through treacherous mountains terrain.
At a brake neck speed the car races with the taste of triumph calling us towards the finish line in Monte Carlo.

In Celebration of 100 years of Rallye Monte Carlo, Skoda wanted to premiere the new Fabia Monte Carlo with some interesting posters for dealerships, making an impression that there is another side to Monte Carlo that most people do not think of. It is more dangerous, more dark, more rough. The opposite of what you would expect when you think of posh, pristine, wealthy Monte Carlo. And that other side was the inspiration for the new Fabia Monte Carlo Edition.

Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo website
CUTTING EDGES - CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE / GESTALTEN VERLAG
I'm featured in the amazing book "Cutting Edges - Contemporary Collage" by the Gestalten Verlag from Berlin, Germany.

Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture.
Todays artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage.
They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage.

Order your Issue here.
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
I recently illustrated a story about the financial crisis for the New York Times Magazine.
NADA ART FAIR 2010
POOL GALLERY / MIAMI (USA)
DECEMBER 2 - 5, 2010
Pool Gallery
NADA ART FAIR / MIAMI BEACH 2010
www.newartdealers.org
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