Steel Blue, 2014
Smash137  

Print : lithography · 80.5 x 59 cm 31.7 x 23.2 inch

€1,300 1 300 €

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Type

Print : numbered and limited to 99 copies

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Condition

Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed

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Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Technique & Support

lithography on Fine art paper

Dimensions ( cminch )

80.5 x 59 cm 31.7 x 23.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

Paper White BFK Rives 270 g. Lithograph 6 colors printed with Marinoni press lithographic and hand cut. "It took me almost one year to find the right painting, which I wanted to use for my first Lithograph. Finally I chose this painting on paper because it's closest in size and material. I preferred not to take a large painting and scale it down to the size of the Lithography. For me the lines loose a lot of strength and energy when they are put out of proportion. I very much enjoy working on paper for the sketchy feeling. Even though the main characteristic of it doesn't let me do any corrections, but it forces me to accept lines, which doesn't always make me happy at first sight. Regardless of it I pursue paper without any deeper preparation and pretty much go on it kamikaze style, that often leads to new results. Working with Print Them All and Idem was a great experience. The old printing factory in Paris is a piece of art itself. I feel very comfortable there nonetheless because they're only printing lithographs of artists and no adds or business related stuff. On my first day, Alëxone Dizac was painting on a stone for his lithograph, in the machine was a litho by Vhils, another one by Bezt just got stacked up and C215's got numbered after he had just signed them. I fall immediately in love with these place and the old honorable printing locomotives. Watching them work made me feel good and it was honestly the first time that I really understood the craft and the difference between a lithograph and a silkscreen print." - Smash137

Smash137, Steel Blue

Smash137

Switzerland  • 1979

Presentation

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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