Saddo Basquiat
2013
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19 x 27.09 in
Year
2013
Medium
Drawings
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Medium: Screenprint in colours on wove paper, with spray. Edition 19 of 20. D*Face is a master of art that is both subversive and skilled. Despite his commercial success, the artist continues to use the streets as a canvas.
1978 , United Kingdom
D*Face is one of the most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. Working with a variety of mediums and techniques, he uses a family of dysfunctional characters to satirise and hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp a welcome jolt of subversion in todays media saturated environment. D*Face uses the term – aPOPcalyptic – to define his work, a metaphorical backdrop for the corruptive persuasive consumerist folly that has been force fed into our society, a blend of ‘pop art’ spliced with fragility of life, his work reflects our popular culture encompassing the American dream and the false ideal of ‘good’ triumphing over ‘evil’, no longer relevant in todays society. His imagery delivers the viewer a moral dilema, embrace or reject, laugh or deny
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Milan , Via Cola Montano 15
Matteo Donini aka The Don opened the gallery in march 2008, after being a passionate collector for more than 10 years. After being travelling around Europe and USA, The Don decided to make Italy understand the real value of the art coming from the Streets and learn the real history of Graffiti. His friendship with Bo130 and Microbo started in 1996 and drove ...
