New Horizons by Mr Brainwash

£2,371.20£2,495.00

New Horizons

Edition of 80

Silk Screen

by Mr Brainwash

Additional information

Artist

Medium

Silkscreen on Paper

Edition Size

80

Image Size

22" x 30"

Framed Size

28" x 40"

Availability

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Description

New Horizons by Mr Brainwash

When Mr Brainwash exploded onto the LA scene in 2008 with his debut show he created a sensation. Although at the time he was a complete unknown, before the week was out his sales had reached almost $1m, he was on the cover of LA Weekly and the original five day exhibition had been extended to run for three months. Life is Beautiful had transformed a cavernous disused TV studio into a street art spectacular which attracted over 50,000 visitors, making it the most visited private exhibition in history. Overnight, Mr Brainwash, AKA Thierry Guetta, an unknown French street artist, had become what Banksy described as “a phenomenon”. He was indeed unstoppable; in the last 10 years, this subversive and playful visionary has been placed on the elite list of the world’s top artists based on auction sales of nearly $2.5million and his meteoric rise has been the largest ever seen in the Art Market.

Innovative and fearless, the work of Mr Brainwash embraces a riot of themes and styles, statements and jokes, commentary and chaos. Combining elements from pop art’s past, from classical paintings, and from the raw components of his street art beginnings, he creates larger-than-life celebrations of culture, imagination and sheer audacity. Multi-layered, both literally and metaphorically, his work represents a huge melting pot of influences and ideas and is an orchestrated collision of street art and pop art that has challenged cultural norms and made him a legend. His witty and irreverent juxtapositions use his ‘tags’ – recurring characters ranging from Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein to ‘Balloon Girl’ and ‘the Positive Monkey’ – to create positivity, nostalgia and fun; “Art”, he says, “should never be serious.” The backdrops for these characters frequently reference his favourite musicians, film producers, comic book characters and famous artworks, paying homage to Warhol, Haring, Banksy, Basquiat and more.Ape