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No Landing – Lamborghini Countach by JJ Adams

This is a play on the 1980’s famous Lamborghini Countach poster I had as a child on my bedroom wall in pride of place for as long as I can remember.

: The piece is a mash up of Back to the Future II (which I saw in the cinema the day it was released in the UK) and my love of the car itself, as well as a retake on the classic 80’s Athena poster and car advertising.

: In the Back to the Future II Film, in the year 2015, Hover Conversions are advertised on a billboard for $39,999,95 (See bottom left of image for the reference).

: The setting is reminiscent of the alleyway scene from the film and features screen accurate graffiti and signage, like “Café 80s”, “Pepsi Perfect”, “Surf Vietnam poster” and “Class of 16” as well as characters like Biff, Jennifer and the Police car.

: The Lamborghinis Wheels have been replaced with a hover conversion and one of the original Lamborghini “Teledial” style wheels sits in the alley to the left, along with a hover-board and the litterbug robot from the film that they almost throw the sports almanac into before seeing the police car in the alley.

: “No Landing” is painted on the wall in large letters, this was seen painted in large letters on the street in the film.

: When released, the Lamborghini was fitted, famously with a bespoke Alpine Stereo system made especially for the Countach. (See bottom right of image)

: Boba Fett from Star Wars features in one of my earlier pieces “Time Traveller” seated in a DeLorean, he is featured in this piece too, although you can only see his lower legs, behind and to the left of the vehicle in the alleyway, he is intending to steal the car in order to continue his “Time Travelling”, much like older Biff does in the film.

: The slogan “When 88mph is not an issue” is a play on “Roads, where we’re going we don’t need roads” in that segment, the DeLorean struggled to get to 88mph quickly but the Lamborghini wouldn’t have that issue!

: The quote “Nuclear Sucker” comes from the first film where Marty McFly first sees the DeLorean and says, “You mean to tell me this sucker is Nuclear?”

: I first dabbled with the source imagery for this poster entirely for my own wall at home, without any intention of releasing it but after the feedback from fans and a good chat with my publisher, we decided to release it.

: It is being released to coincide with the release of the film “Ready Player One”, I read the book in 2012 and it is one of my favourite books of all time.

JJ Adams is a new media and mixed media artist from South West England currently living and working in London. “JJ Adams is the Zappa or Hendrix of the UK Fine Art scene. I no longer walk past a gallery without looking in, he’s taken icons and buildings we know so well and added a drop of LSD”.

Featured in Vogue & GQ and having worked alongside clients like Rolls Royce and Bang & Olufsen, JJ Adams is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s most talked about and collectible artists. He is bold and confident in style often completely transforming celebrity images or iconic landmarks with his own inimitable edge and blurring the lines between new media, pop, fine art, digital art and photography.

Adams uses a range of new and mixed media in his work from spray painting to hand painting acrylics, stenciling, screen printing, collage and digital composite and matte painting as well as photography.

“The key is not to take yourself or your work too seriously,  just to have fun creating and experiment and ignore criticism and keep your feet on the ground, otherwise it gets too complicated and it ruins your creativity, I create artwork for other people to enjoy and I don’t attempt to save the world with a message that I don’t truly believe. I donate to charities instead through the sale of my artwork who really do know how to make a difference”