With his nimble fingers and child-like enthusiasm, Danny Cortes re-creates in miniature the hip-hop-infused street scenes of a gritty New York.
abc.net.au/news/nyc-hip-hop-minature-models-danny-cortes/101810954With his nimble fingers and child-like enthusiasm, Danny Cortes recreates in miniature the hip-hop-infused street scenes of a gritty New York.
On his table was a current project, the tiny replica of a worn and dirty building facade. Near a bricked-in window, a plastic bushel basket had been hung: a poor man's basketball hoop. The artist builds collectibles based on the most banal of urban scenes, "the little things that we pass by every day" and pay no attention to, but which collectively form the unique cityscape that is New York.One of his first signature works was a rendering of a simple white commercial ice box — the kind that sits outside corner groceries, the words "ICE" in block red letters on its side, and often covered in graffiti, which Cortes reproduces with meticulous detail.
His work resonates with nostalgia, and he often incorporates tributes to mythical local rappers like Notorious B.I.G. and the Wu-Tang Clan.But the pandemic changed his life, pushing him to take more seriously what had been an enjoyable pastime.Artistic label Mass Appeal, which partners with rap legend Nas, commissioned him to do a model of a ghetto-blaster boombox for the cover of a mini album by DJ Premier .
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