Limited Edition Print – Jay One Ramier, FEEL, 2014
An early initiate to graffiti culture, Jay One Ramier formed the infamous “Bad Boys Crew” in 1982. A rising star of the underground graffiti scene during the 80’s, Jay One was at the heart of the growing hip pop culture in Paris – from moonwalking with famous-to-be artists and musicians in the ghetto, to witnessing Paco Rabanne opening his doors to rappers, b-boys and poppers. Stemming from this culture and the aesthetic of graffiti tagging, Jay’s works are equal to visual poetry – an image is always accompanied with a lyrical sentence. At the same time minimal and colorful, the works are imbued with the spirit of the hip pop decade – free, sharp and to the point.
Writing on his print, Jay One mentions: “I wanted to express as much spontaneity as possible: no extensive preparation, no sketch, always minimising the transition from mind to media – it is what I call voodoo art – spirit driven process. Instinctively the image of the poet (Leon G. Damas), wearing his hat, came to my mind. The challenge for me is not to create the most beautiful piece but instead to carry on my message – the quest for freedom”. Select exhibition history includes: Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Paris; Milieu Gallery, Bern; DSL, Tokyo; ABA gallery, Berlin.
Villa Lena Foundation Print Editions- The Traditional Art of Printmaking with contemporary artists
Each year the Villa Lena Foundation works in collaboration with II Bisonte and a selection of contemporary artists on the Villa Lena residency programme in order to develop and produce a series of limited edition prints. Artists work with expert technicians to explore new techniques and push their practice into exciting and uncharted territory. A number of these unique prints are now available to purchase online.
Il Bisonte is a print-workshop for graphic arts founded in Florence in 1959 by Maria Luigia Guaita. Many artists – both Italian and non – accepted the invitation to work at Il Bisonte. including members of the Futurist movement -Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Alberto Magnelli, and such international stars as Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Helen Chadwick, Alexander Calder and Henry Moore. In 1983 Il Bisonte became a non-profit Cultural Centre and opened an international school, with the focus to preserve the teaching and printing of the traditional engraving techniques.
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While working on the Elvira print at the historical printmaking studio Il Bisonte, Sylvie Auvray surprised the technicians with the imaginative selection of materials and unconventional methods – rather than using the traditional etching pen on copper plate, she used different liquids in order to create imagery. The result was a large shape in the center of the work reminiscent of a ghostly spirit, so she named the print after Elvira –after the local legend of a young beauty who haunts the woods of Villa Lena.
€700,00
Gently resting on a mattress and wrapped in their bed sheets, Adeline’s “creatures” seem gently kissed by the peeking moonlight, while a grainy grayness invades the darker corners of their “incubedroom”. A window into their quiet intimacy. Adeline De Monseignat’s drawing that inspired this work, is the starting point for an installation that one day will become a reality.
€700,00
This print work by the American artist Alan Reid invites reasoning, provocation and negotiation of absurdist scenarios involving ideas around mass-produced Vogue covers, social realism and modern European masters.
€700,00
Beatrice Boyle limited edition print celebrates the female figure, reduced to a few simple lines, the colour recalls flesh in flat monochrome. Through a series of abstractions, the figure becomes removed from the original life drawings, paintings and sculptures it derived from – it becomes a symbol, a representation of its simplest form.
€500,00
