Dark Vador couteaux | Alben

Alben Dark Vador NextStreet Gallery Paris
Alben Dark Vador NextStreet Gallery Paris

Dark Vador couteaux | Alben

€5,500.00

YEAR: 2019

CLASSIFICATION: Unique

MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture

MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Resin and knifs

CATEGORIES: Figurative Art / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Use of Common Materials / Resin / Cultural Commentary

DIMENSIONS: 18 9/10 × 16 1/2 × 7 9/10 in - 48 × 42 × 20 cm

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Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including Pop and Classical art. Interested in street art, the self-taught artist references an array of cultural touchstones in his densely layered, often stencil-sprayed paintings; his allusions include corporate mascots, historical figures, actors, comic book characters, and artists. His sculpture similarly embraces popular culture, though it is also directly influenced by the work of the French artist Arman, who exhibited commercial objects as sculpture in the 1960s. Similarly insisting that popular culture and aesthetic production are linked, Alben inverts Arman’s structure by reimagining touchstones of art history such as the Venus de Milo as a configuration of crushed Coke cans

Alben est un artiste autodidacte Français du mouvement des Nouveaux réalistes, né en 1973. Ses sculptures et tableaux parodient les mouvements clés de l’histoire de l’art comme le Pop Art et le classicisme. Il s’intéresse au Street art, et fait un clin d’œil à la culture populaire en sculptant et peignant des personnages de bandes dessinées, des acteurs et des mascottes publicitaires mais aussi des figures historiques et des icônes de la pop. Il s’inspire de César et d’Arman et remplit ses bustes et ses sculptures en résine d’objets de la vie quotidienne comme des bonbons, des canettes de Coca-cola ou des jouets d’enfant. Le résultat, coloré et attrayant, appelle à la nostalgie et à l’enfance.