Sculpture "Weapon of Choice" (2022) (Unique piece)
Sculpture "Weapon of Choice" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | synthetic resin varnish on automatic machine | size 95 x 40 cm (h x w)
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Sculpture "Weapon of Choice" (2022) (Unique piece)
Synthetic resin varnish on vending machine, 2022. Signed. Height: 95 cm. Width: 40 cm.
About Van Ray
Born in 1984
No one else manages to fuse Pop Art and Street Art like the Düsseldorf-based Van Ray - one of the youngest artists of Urban Art, whose works impress even an international audience. The "Pochoir" movement, which had its heyday in France in the 1980s, shaped the artist's work and prompted him to combine socially critical messages with graffiti art at the age of 16.
Van Ray's works - all unique pieces - are created on rusty image carriers, often steel, enamel signs or even old metal machines. The artist has perfected the rust technique over several years. His detailed, superimposed stencils show comic figures and influential people from the media world, which he combines with pointed, critical slogans, thus questioning things in a socially critical way.
Incidentally, you can recognise a genuine Van Ray object by his trademark, the pictogram of a duck as his signature.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.