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DFACE Peace Gun (Silver Artist Proof)
2001

Name: D*FACE Peace Gun (Silver Artist Proof)
Brand: D*Face
Price: 5000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Gorgeous D*Face Peace Gun Print with great message. Super rare Silver Artist Proof from an edition of only 10. Hand signed by D*Face on bottom right of print. Stamped with artist logo as well as his gallery stamp on bottom left. Marked in pencil with AP and edition number on bottom left as well. D*Face also painted a very large mural in Las Vegas featuring the Peace Gun in 2015. Hand pulled 7 color Screenprint on heavy stock paper. Released in 2015. Artists proofs are also known as AP’s and are even more limited than the standard edition release. Typically, they do not exceed 10% of the standard edition. They may be created for numerous reasons such as: for the artists personal use, as a working trial of the print or object etc. They are typically exactly the same as the final edition but sometimes can vary by design and color with changes different from the standard release edition. Due to their scarcity, they typically do not come up often for sale. RELATED: Invader, KAWS, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Blek Le Rat, Cleon Peterson, Futura, Dran, Faile, Kunstasen, Mr. Brainwash, Zedsy, Swoon, D*Face, Koons, Contemporary Art, Graffiti, Hirst, Urban Art.

Creator:

D*Face (1978, British)

Creation Year:

2001

Dimensions:

Height: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)Width: 39.3 in (99.83 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Street Art

Period:

21st Century

Condition:

May have light handling marks if any present at all.

Gallery Location:

Englishtown, NJ

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1624213544102

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What now seems like a lifetime but is merely a decade ago I sat slumped at my desk, head on arm pushing a pencil round a piece of paper dreaming up ways to kill time and break the chains holding me to my desk, Monday to Friday each day became the same and I was eating my brain. Then one day whilst dreaming up further ideas in the series of ‘Ways to kill time’ the pencil lines on the pad started to become characters, strange and dysfunctional they formed my dysfunctional world which had no rule. Slowly I figured the pencil could be replaced with a marker pen (the Pentel N50 to be exact) and the paper replaced with cheap vinyl which was acquired from DIY stores, these characters once resigned to a life on paper filed in a folder under ‘Not suitable for visual consumption’ began to have a life of their own; adhered to lamp post and electrical boxes they plotted and linked my route home, one became 10 and slowly 10 became more than I can remember. Each evening and as much of the day as I could rob was spent drawing and cutting out stickers. Stickers became posters, posters became more ambitious and somewhere in between I quit my job or maybe that was I got fired, either way the inevitable had happened. Like a river cuts it’s own path, I’d cut mine. This family of dysfunctional characters began evolve, they started to satirise and hold to ransom all that fell into their grasp, a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment, the very same thing I’d grown up on. Bank notes were drawn and printed over and put into circulation for the unsuspecting to receive in their change, billboards taken over with public service announcements. I wanted to encourage people to not just to ‘see’, but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, reflecting our increasingly bizarre popular culture, re-thinking and reworking cultural figures and genres to comment on our ethos of conspicuous consumption. A Pandora’s box of bittersweet delights, sweet and sugary on the surface, but with an unfamiliar, uncomfortable, taste beneath. This isn’t the beginning, it’s not the end it’s happy never ending. D*