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$3,673.25The Story
Size:60 x 60 in.
Maxim’s Fairground (55 x 55 inches) is a chaotic carnival of texture, colour, and cryptic symbolism. Layered with graffiti-like marks, scrawled figures, skulls, and neon-bright splashes of paint, it conjures the sensory overload of urban life—at once playful and ominous. There’s a visceral spontaneity in its execution: a riot of spray paint, scribbles and drips that blur the line between rebellion and reflection. Childlike motifs such as a ferris wheel and cartoon faces are masked by layers of decay and aggression, suggesting innocence corrupted or lost amidst noise and distraction.
The work pulses with the energy of the street, like a wall tagged over and over, each voice struggling to be heard. Symbols appear and disappear under the surface—crosses, arrows, abstract forms—each one demanding a second look. At the centre is a suggestion of joy derailed, a metaphorical fairground built not for fun, but for survival.
Maxim—founding member of The Prodigy—injects the same raw, unapologetic emotion into his visual art as he does his music. Drawing on surrealism and societal unrest, he fuses brutality with beauty. Fairground is not a place, but a state of mind: chaotic, colourful, haunted by memory, and burning with a need to speak.
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Size:60 x 60 in.
Maxim’s Fairground (55 x 55 inches) is a chaotic carnival of texture, colour, and cryptic symbolism. Layered with graffiti-like marks, scrawled figures, skulls, and neon-bright splashes of paint, it conjures the sensory overload of urban life—at once playful and ominous. There’s a visceral spontaneity in its execution: a riot of spray paint, scribbles and drips that blur the line between rebellion and reflection. Childlike motifs such as a ferris wheel and cartoon faces are masked by layers of decay and aggression, suggesting innocence corrupted or lost amidst noise and distraction.
The work pulses with the energy of the street, like a wall tagged over and over, each voice struggling to be heard. Symbols appear and disappear under the surface—crosses, arrows, abstract forms—each one demanding a second look. At the centre is a suggestion of joy derailed, a metaphorical fairground built not for fun, but for survival.
Maxim—founding member of The Prodigy—injects the same raw, unapologetic emotion into his visual art as he does his music. Drawing on surrealism and societal unrest, he fuses brutality with beauty. Fairground is not a place, but a state of mind: chaotic, colourful, haunted by memory, and burning with a need to speak.
