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Hand (Reinbow Set),
2018
Smash137
Print : lithography
39 x 29 x 0.1 cm 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
€800
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Numbered and limited to 10 copies
3 copies available
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Hand-signed by artist
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39 x 29 x 0.1 cm 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
Framing
Not framed
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
4x Lithographs 2 colors printed with Marinoni press lithographic and hand cut.
Each 39cm x 29cm (15.35 in. x 11.42 in.)
“Hands" – this is what Adrian Falkner calls a series of ink drawings on paper, which he leads since 2017 in his artistic repertoire. With sponge soaked in ink, he draws a virtuoso line usually with 5 rotations whose beginning and end meet in one point. But to interpret a hand with five fingers in the five lines, however, would be too simple.
Falkner's interest in writing has changed in recent years in his work: from the first tags, through his distinctive writings as a street artist, to the use of writing and signs on an increasingly conceptual level in public space as well as his paintings. In the process, the composed writing lost its meaning for him. It is no longer the once sprayed artist name as a constructed sign in a surface that is his theme, but with the series “Hands" Adrian Falkner addresses writing as a process of abstraction and as a manual gesture of drawing spontaneous and conceived lines.
In the context of authorship, the hand is the medium of writing. The Latin word “stylus" means both individual writing style as well as writing instrument. Scripture has broadened its spectrum and has conquered space. The line has developed genealogically from mere aid to an autonomous art form. Adrian Falkner has inscribed himself in this tradition and writes in public space as well as in his pictorial spaces equally.
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Summer 2013 – somewhere between Paris and Detroit – somewhere in the middle of the metamorphosis. In the last 15 months the work of SMASH137 has been transfered from a Graffiti based calligraphic- writing-style to a style of colourful painting using the form of single letters as powerful signs.
A gestural abstract painting is on the move. All in all it looks like a frozen moment of forms and colours fighting each other which seems to explode. But nevertheless the paintings appear throughout well balanced. Leonardo’s ten characteristics of an object are almost exemplified reproduced by SMASH137 various combinations with lightness and darkness, colour and substance, form and position, distance and closeness, action and stagnancy.
Construction and deconstruction are the characteristics and part of his strategy. In the battle of line against line, surface against surface, colour against colour, SMASH137 is constantly confronted to one of the main questions of painting what has been achieved and what needs to be changed.
But this development from Graffiti to pure painting as well as the metamorphosis from the Street Artist SMASH137 into the (new) artist Adrian Falkner (his real name) has its price. For some, he moved too far away from Street Art style. For others he is still too close. For some, it contains too much writing. For others it’s too gestural, too abstract, and too neo-informal. No matter how you approach to the paintings of SMASH137 none of them will leave you cold. They polarize when we awake and confuse when we see them.
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A gestural abstract painting is on the move. All in all it looks like a frozen moment of forms and colours fighting each other which seems to explode. But nevertheless the paintings appear throughout well balanced. Leonardo’s ten characteristics of an object are almost exemplified reproduced by SMASH137 various combinations with lightness and darkness, colour and substance, form and position, distance and closeness, action and stagnancy.
Construction and deconstruction are the characteristics and part of his strategy. In the battle of line against line, surface against surface, colour against colour, SMASH137 is constantly confronted to one of the main questions of painting what has been achieved and what needs to be changed.
But this development from Graffiti to pure painting as well as the metamorphosis from the Street Artist SMASH137 into the (new) artist Adrian Falkner (his real name) has its price. For some, he moved too far away from Street Art style. For others he is still too close. For some, it contains too much writing. For others it’s too gestural, too abstract, and too neo-informal. No matter how you approach to the paintings of SMASH137 none of them will leave you cold. They polarize when we awake and confuse when we see them.
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