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    Urban Art

    Urban Art combines classical art forms with pop, punk, contemporary art, graffiti and street art, while reflecting the thoughts and moods of today, which are most likely perceived in the major metropolitan areas, the melting pots of our society. The already well-known mash-up, the interweaving of known and unknown, citation, deconstructing and re-crosslinking is sensed and used by urban artists in the visual arts. Urban Art has become an art form in the field of contemporary art.

    The Gallery Pretty Portal presents and documents a fast-moving, radical new art direction. Gallery owner and curator Klaus Rosskothen sees Pretty Portal as a fusion of street and White Cube, a metalevel where Urban Art meets gallery visitors and collectors. Pretty Portal shows paintings, drawings, prints, collages, photographies, video installations and sculptures.

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    Visit our gallery in Düsseldorf:
    Pretty Portal | Brunnenstr. 12 | 40223 Düsseldorf
    Opening hours: Tue. – Fr. 2 – 7pm and by appointment (+49-163-6040846)

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    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.  #urbanart #streetart #photgraphy #unique #artonpaper  #contemporary #art #artmarket #gallery #beauty #blackandwhite #graff  #artdealer #contemporaryart #figurative #weloveart  #portrait #zeitgenössischekunst #interiordesign #collector #artlover #emergingartist #design #artinfluencer
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