Someday all the adults will die!

 

Bold Poster from the exhibition 'Someday All the Adults Will Die': Punk Graphics 1971 - 1984

"Punk is now part of the mainstream and we probably think we are familiar with the movement. A couple of years ago, the Ramones started selling more t-shirts at H&M than they've ever sold disks, Raymond Pettibon has a few pieces at Frieze this week, Jamie Reid collaborated with Shephard Fairey, you might pick up the butter that Johnny Lydon recomends and i'm an avid collector of Vivienne Westwood for Melissa.
But this is now and this is only superficial. Punk, I discovered at the show, has an aesthetics and an ethos that go far beyond the vociferous music and the safety-pinned ear lobes. Punk was about being young, being bold and doing things by yourself.
"If you don't like the culture you are spoon-fed, you can make your own. It worked wonders at the end of the seventies, and all these jagged, chiaroscuro urgent masterpieces of graphic design, executed by art school masters alongside anguished adolescents continue to reverberate as get-up-and-get-on-with-it eyeball-pleasers." -Johan Kugelberg, co-curator of the exhibition. 

Punk was about 
being young, 
being bold and 
doing things 
by yourself.

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