Middle East Meets Western Brands

NYC artist employs luxury brand logos to make a geopolitical statement

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Luxury American and European brands most often inspire consumers to pull out their credit cards. But in the case of Eric Parnes, they simply inspire, period.

Parnes, 31, an artist of Iranian descent who lives in New York’s East Village, has based much of his work on the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern cultures. His latest collection of objects (which he is readying for a Paris gallery show this coming spring) finds that intersection in a simultaneously unusual yet obvious place: brands—specifically, designer brands.

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