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"In his series &amp;#039;Swagged Out,&amp;#039; Toronto-based artist and musician Curtis Santiago, who is also known as Talwst, alters old Bossons heads. Santiago provides a fresh perspective to masks by giving them a modern take infusing them with products from popular culture. More specifically, the masks take on a &amp;quot;swag rap&amp;quot; style, as Talwst covers them with Kanye West shutter shades, Ray Bans and blinged-out gold teeth.  The wall-mounted relief masks represent a social commentary created by the multidisciplinary artist as he blends the world of music and art. The work is accurately described by the website Beautiful Decay as a take on 15th-century Italian Death Masks that are in fact, &amp;quot;Santiago&amp;rsquo;s farewell to certain aspects of &amp;quot;Swag Rap Culture.&amp;quot;  The Swagged Out series will be exhibited in New York City at Fuse Gallery from August 15th through September 12th."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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