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Kafka, 2017
Tarek X Mat Elbé  

Painting : acrylic, ink, Posca, Stencil · 40 x 30 x 2 cm 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

€550 550 €
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This work proposes a singular encounter between the human presence and urban abstraction. The face, frontal and almost sculptural, emerges from a network of lines and geometric shapes that evoke both contemporary architecture, infrastructure, and the complexity of urban systems.

At the crossroads of Pop Art and Street Art, the composition rests on a controlled tension between figuration and graphic language. Acrylic, ink, and Posca, combined with stencil, give birth to a precise and fragmented writing, where primary colors structure the space with an almost architectural intensity.

Created in collaboration with Tarek, author of geometric decor, the work establishes a dialogue between two plastic writings. The writer's name, integrated into the composition as an urban sign, participates in this reflection on image, memory, and the figures of contemporary culture.

Between portrait and graphic construction, the piece affirms an aesthetic that is at once urban, sophisticated, and timeless, where the human seems caught in the lines of a constantly transforming world.

Tarek X Mat Elbé, Kafka
France  • 1996

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Tarek and Mat Elbé met in Damascus, Syria while performing their military service cooperation. 1996 is the year of their meeting and 2014, is the year of their first artistic collaboration!

 

Back in France, Mat Elbé joined the team of the magazine "Paris Tonkar" directed by Tarek, the editor-in-chief. He got to know Yarps and other stencil artists who made him want to go to the other side of the mirror. Tarek, who had been painting since he was 14, offered him to paint canvases with four hands on themes they both appreciate: pop culture and New York... They have traveled many times to Montreal and New York. York: they launched the From Gotham project, an artistic project around exhibitions, publications, muralism, street art, and live painting on the theme of New York...

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