Ed "Big Daddy" Roth The Original Rat Fink
I went to the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth "The Original Rat Fink" Exhibition hosted at Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. California with our pisntriper Hiro "Wildman" Ishii. That day was little hard on schedule as early in the morning we went to the Long Beach Swap Meet then to the Burbank for a peek on the Paint exhibition and as we came near by LA we decided to stop by the Petersen Museum.
May be most of people already know by the book called "Rat Fink's Revenge" but there was Rat Fink dolls painted by each artist from Japanese artist such as Wildman, Shakin', Mr. G, Enamel to artist from various other countries at the exhibition and historical cars and bikes made by Ed Roth were gathered and displayed at this event.
In his time Ed Roth didn't have any of his worked pieces left at his hand and only few were left at his work house in back yard of his home in La Mirada, California. After that he had moved to Utah State and I recall that he himself didn't have any of his old art piece left at his hand. Instead there were plenty of collectors and most of his art pieces still exist from bikes to cars.
This time Beatnik Bandit、Outlaw、Mysterion、Rotor、Road Agent & Surfite were on exhibit and collection of items that were sold in the past was well worth seeing. Exhibition is on until June 3rd. Please stop by and check out the exhibition when and if you go to LA. California. |
