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5 days ago

Guy Denning - The idea of her

Vernissage diesen Samstag (14.3.) ab 19h im Pretty Portal. Guy Denning wird aus Frankreich anreisen und am Abend anwesend sein. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

Guy Denning
„the official memory of the good war“ & „we see them in our dreams“
Öl auf Leinwand
für die Ausstellung "The idea of her", die wir am 14.März in der Galerie Pretty Portal eröffnen. ... See MoreSee Less

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3 weeks ago

Guy Denning for his upcoming show "The idea of her"

Guy Denning’s work has long existed at the intersection of traditional painting and contemporary urban art, drawing equally from European pictorial history and political urgency. His paintings and drawings are defined by an expressive, often fragmented figuration, combined with stencilled and collaged text, abrasion, overpainting and deliberate disruption. In Denning’s work, identity is never presented as fixed or resolved, but as something fragile, provisional and constantly in flux.

The works shown in this exhibition represent a particularly focused and intimate phase of his practice. Drawings and paintings revolve around memory, imagination and projection. They deliberately reject the conventions of portraiture, approaching their subjects instead through suggestion, movement and emotional density. Here, proximity is not created through likeness, but through attitude.

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4 weeks ago

SAM3
“Raices estelaris"

Indian ink and acrylics on Arches
40 x 30cm, signed
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The Spanish artist SAM3 is widely recognized for his monumental, silhouette-like murals. Rising across entire building façades, his figures inhabit the city itself, entering into a quiet yet powerful conversation with their surroundings. His imagery moves between irony and poetry, carrying a subtle but unmistakable sense of provocation.

SAM3’s works reflect on philosophical ideas, everyday rituals, and the unspoken structures that shape contemporary life. Reduced to a restrained palette and a lucid, graphic language, his images unfold with striking clarity and presence. Their simplicity is not immediate, but invitational — asking the viewer to pause, to look again, and to uncover meaning gradually.

Human figures dominate his compositions, often suspended in moments of transformation, dissolving into architecture, shadow, and space. In this fragile balance between stillness and change, SAM3’s work reveals its quiet intensity — where the poetic becomes political, and the urban landscape turns into a stage for reflection.
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