Hot to Antistrot

Ten years ago, at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Professor Strot made a few very talented enemies. These students, who would go on to form the collective Antistrot, began to draw together. Their work, which first appeared in the form of a cut-and-paste style magazine, garnered critical acclaim for its embrace of aesthetic diversity, wide-ranging cultural references, and irreverent take on high art. Ten years later, with their first American solo exhibition at the Sara Tecchia Roma gallery in New York, the Dutch ne'er-do-wells are bringing their brand of pop art stateside. Click the jump to watch the madness behind their method.