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2 weeks ago
Vermibus - Olympia
Dissolvent on paper
32x23,6cm
@vermibus
From the smoothing of facial skin, over the reduction of eye bags and wrinkles erasure, to enlargement of eyes and lips, “photoshopping” the human body to “perfection” has become the norm in advertising. Beauty has become synonym of success and happiness, and even if the average person realize that this premise is genuinely false it keeps on being socially accepted and followed by the vast majority. In social media these concepts of advertisment are adopted by so called influencers and taken to a vast majority of people who started to present themselves as their personal brand or product.
The Berlin-based artist and activist Vermibus has developed a unique practice centered around the critique of contemporary beauty standards. He comments on the attempts of advertisement and consumer society in general that aim to take away individual identities.
Vermibus gained major attention when he started to remove poster ads from the public space, altered them in his studio, and then re-installed them. In his process Vermibus humanized the figures that were previously depersonalized, as a means of launching a sharp social critique of the advertising industry and their practices on the human body. The public space is essential to the message of Vermibus’ work, and it is where his art begins and ends.
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3 weeks ago
We just added two new drawings from infamous Guy Denning to our shop.
Both beautifully drawn portraits with charcoal and conté on colored paper.
Guy Denning’s work combines a traditional painterly style with a contemporary, punk-inspired, twist of embedded collaged and stenciled text. This aesthetic, blended with a political narrative, has found Denning a loyal audience in the collectors of urban art. @guy_denning
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3 weeks ago
✨Gems from the archive ✨
Now available in our shop ( link in bio)
FAKE „Code black”
6 color screen print on Somerset satin white (300gsm)
Edition of 125
70x70cm
Signed and numbered
FAKE
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4 weeks ago
New from L.E.T.
„Never say“
Spray paint and oil pastels on canvas
70x65cm, signed
Always iconic, always wonderful. L.E.T. ´s new piece gorgeous and now available in our online store
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2 months ago
Ben Slow - Weather The Storm
Now available in our online shop
Acrylic,Spray paint,Pencil and screen print on German etching paper, 1/1
unique, 50 × 70 cm, signed
Ben Slow uses different materials for his mostly monochrome portraits. His dramatic-looking works have equal points of contact with the abstract and figurative styles. As an artist, he draws inspiration from the vibrant life of London’s residential neighborhoods, with their electrifying mix of cultures, as well as the dazzling characters he encounters on his travels.
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2 months ago
REMED & SAM3
„Ella, & Flor De Fuego“
Acrylics and charcoal on linnen camvas 100 x 120cm
Send me a pm with your mail address to receive the catalogue of the show
On display at the duo show Enigma, with works from SAM3 and REMED.
Both REMED and SAM3 are among the early representatives of the still young art movement. Their works have already been discussed in MODART and a mural by SAM3 can be seen in the Banksy film „Exit through the gift shop“.
For the exhibition, the two artists, who have known and appreciated each other for a long time, painted together on various works and explored the intersection of their artistic scope. The result is three canvases that unite the visual languages of the two artists in a marvellous way and create something completely new in an exciting way. In addition to the canvases, a series of sketches have been created to accompany the ensemble of three works. Both artists are also showing a series of solo works.
REMED and SAM3 have a similar clear formal language, but use colours very differently. While SAM3 uses primarily black and white in a very reduced manner and with strong contrasts, REMED’s works are very colourful. However, he usually refrains from mixing the colours and uses areas of colour next to each other. This gives the works a special luminosity through contrasts in the colour spectrum.
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3 months ago
Morgen haben wir die Galerie Pretty Portal für euch von 14-18h geöffnet.
Euch erwartet neben der aktuellen Ausstellung ENIGMA mit Arbeiten von Sam3 und Remed, die ein oder andere tolle Geschenkidee und zum Überleben des allgemeinen Vorweihnachtswahnsinns ein Helles und Rotwein 🙂 ... Mehr sehenWeniger sehen
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3 months ago
REMED
„Le bel echange“
Acrylics on canvas
95 x 145cm
On display at the duo show Enigma, with works from SAM3 and REMED. @remed_art , @sam3.es
Please send your inquiries to info@prettyportal.de.
«I discovered the Art of painting in a atelier of my town, Lille, in 1995. I have long worked inside. I always liked the privacy and quiet of my room or studio.
However, I quickly felt the need to overcome the limits imposed by the framework, and also the desire to show my work. That’s how I came to the street, that’s why I started to interact with my environment by pasting stickers expressing my ideas and messages or witnesses on the walls with spray. I finally had the chance to paint huge areas, in places often specials, being as much as possible aware of the context in which my tracks will evolve.
On the other hand, I continued my work on canvas. First I played with the image and text, by creating or interpreting icons often associated with letters or words. My paintings were composed, as and as the ideas took shape. They were already carrying the seeds of the following idea, which once have matured together would all take on new meaning.
Today, thanks to the experience of the street that led me to synthesize my creations, and because I’ve understood that the «viewer» does not give as much time as I dared to imagine to the observation of work, I always simplified the result of my work. This is so the viewer can actually feel something, being talked to, without my physical presence being necessary.
I make rhymes with colors, shapes and sounds to express emotion, feeling, or the evolution of thought. I paint as you write a diary, a notebook of inventions, or philosophical essai.
Art is for me the sincere blend of science and Soul.
I live what I feel, I paint what I live.»
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3 months ago
SAM3
„La fuente“
Indian ink on Arches paper
35 x 30cm / gerahmt 50x40cm
On display at the duo show Enigma, with works from SAM3 and REMED.
@sam3.es @remed_art
The Spanish artist SAM3 is best known for his silhouette-like Murals. Some of them are high as a house and often refer to their direct, urban environment. SAM3’s paintings are ironic, poetic, but especially provocative. They discuss philosophical subjects, question habits of our daily life and refer to current social discourses.
Being reduced to few colours and a graphical style, the pictures have an extraordinary presence. The viewer is invited to examine the painting by its simplicity, that reveals their messages step by step. The paintings are dominated by figurative elements, which are in a metamorphose with their surroundings.
SAM3 works with symbols like e.g. roots or ladders. Figures with oversized heads are representative for his style.
The native Spain and Urban Art Artist currently lives in Athens, but he paints worldwide – not only pictures but whole stories that he shows in experimental Stop Motion short films.
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4 months ago
🔥 Print Release 🔥
ARDIF "Cat Mechanimal"
Next week, on 6th of December, we will be releasing the latest screen print edition "Cat Mechanimal" from ARDIF at shop.prettyportal.de (link in bio).
There are three versions of the edition. I will post the other ones in the next days. @a_r_d_i_f
ARDIF has chosen a "classic" mechanimal with a clear separation between the mechanical and naturalistic parts for this print edition. The edition was printed in our in-house screen printing studio with five print layers. The elaborate printing process brings out the details and shading of the graphics even better. As usual, the edition was printed on handmade paper from the English paper manufacturer Somerset.
5 color screen print on Somerset Satin hand moulded paper with deckled edges (270g/m)
74x64cm
Amber / Topaz / Emerald
Edition of 30/20/30
200€ / 250€ / 200€
The edition will be available on 6th of December / 4pm (CET) at shop.prettyportal.de (link in bio)
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