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Win a rare artist proof of M-City’s ‘Drones’
Win a rare artist proof from Edition Fifty’s latest print ‘Drones’ by M-City.
To enter: follow @EditionFifty on Twitter and RT Bristol24/7’s tweet here: www.twitter.com/bristol247/status/613325534261587968
A winner will be picked at random at midday on Thursday, 25 June. Winner will be contacted by DM from @EditionFifty.
‘Drones’ is a new print by street artist, M-City. More commonly found working to increasingly large scales – such as painting airport control towers and ships – the artist has been urged to commit his work to paper by Edition Fifty.
‘Drones’ will be available to buy from 3pm, Thursday 25 June via www.editionfifty.com. Don’t hang around, M-City’s prints are known to sell out very fast!
50 x 70 2 cm 3 colour screen print with tonal blend background
Archival print 320 gsm Fabriano 5 white paper with deckle edge top and bottom
Signed & numbered, edition of 50
Available 15:00 GMT Thurs 25th June
The origin of the print lies in a wall painting completed in autumn 2014, the drones appearing in a Barcelona car park (shown above). The vast landscape piece has been condensed and refined for the purposes of the two-stage screen print, derived from the two-stencil original. The monochrome composition reflects the work that M-City is globally recognised for, providing sharp contrasts and textures with a minimal palette.
Having seen much of Europe as an artist, including a standout piece painted for See No Evil in Bristol in 2012, M-City now travels further afield to find his inspirations, to be more frequently found in the poverty-stricken, but vibrant environments of Asian and South American inner-cities. Born and raised in Gdynia, northern Poland during the Communist era, the lingering taste of political dissent is never far from the artist’s mind or art.
M-City says: “Poland has a long history of using stencils for art. Before 1989, stencil art was most the popular independent technique. People used stencils against political powers and the darker forces of communism. This piece is stencil art, but that’s perhaps not the most important aspect of the work, it could just as easily be woodcut or linotype. I want the viewer to see the danger in the piece, as the drones observe this house. Maybe they will finally decide to destroy it, maybe not.”
‘Drones’ by M-City will be released to the public exclusively from www.editionfifty.com at 3pm on Thursday June 26, in a strictly limited edition of 50 prints.
For more information about the work of M-City visit: www.m-city.org
Edition Fifty will be working with artists spanning all art genres and mediums and each new print will be new and exclusive to the Editon Fifty website.
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