While details are still pretty scarce, Ferg will be opening ‘Medium War’, aka the Squadt show, @ Rotofugi on Friday, January 14th 2011. For any fans of Ferg’s Squadt figure line (including yours truly), this is one to mark on the calendar. Expect plenty of custom Squadts, art, and apparently at least one show exclusive. It also sounds like plans are in the works for a 1:1 life-size squadt to be on display at the opening.
The title of the show appears to reference the ongoing pitched battles between various Squadt factions. After the jump, enjoy a look at the scant few pics Ferg has let slip out of his grasp over at Collect and Destroy as well as the official ‘Squadt Story’.
Ferg || ‘Medium War’
Opening: Friday, January 14th 2011
Rotofugi
2780 N Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
The Squadt Story
Earth. All that remains is a shell of what the humans once called home. They are all gone now. Wiped out by a violent plague of some sort.. The cause? Who fucking knows…that’s not the point of this story. The point is how the hell the Squadts came to call our planet home. I will tell you. The powers that be, on the Squadts mother planet, thought it would be a good idea to purge their prisons and cleanse their lands of the dregs of society.
They loaded them up by the thousands, into a massive, interstellar, incarceration transporter (a huge fucking prison ship). Earth would be the final destination. It would now serve as a prison planet for the unruly Squadt masses. They would be left to their own devices, but monitored closely by the powerful Squadt overseers back home. A violent social experiment of the grandest scale…but of course shit went wrong.
Upon entering the earths atmosphere the massive prison ship had a major entry sequence malfunction. The landing was successful, but not without extensive casualties and complete decimation of the home planet communication and monitoring systems.
The surviving Squadts took right to their new home, adopting leftover human technology as if it was their own. And Because of their inherent violent and deviant nature, they instinctively divided into opposing gangs. Many battles would be fought. This is the story of the Squadts.
