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The Divine Drinkery

2023
13 color Hand-Pulled Silk-Screened Serigraph Print on Thick fine art cotton rag paper
Edition of 300 copies plus proofs. Numbered and signed by Shag
59 x 100 cm

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The Golden Tiki es un bar hawaiano que recoge el testigo de sus predecesores en Las Vegas, legendarios locales de los años 60 de recordados nombres como Aku Aku (dentro del casino Stardust) y Don the Beachcomber (dentro del Sahara), décadas después de su cierre y del declive de la cultura tiki. Algo así como la Disneylandia de los bares tiki, y una parada obligada si alguna vez visitas la ciudad del desierto y del pecado. “The Divine Drinkery” está inspirada en él, y casi podríamos decir que es el bar hawaiano definitivo salido de la imaginación y el estudio de Josh “Shag” Agle. Taburetes y lámparas de diseño mid-century, camisas floreadas, decoración polinésica, personajes enigmáticos y detalles inquietantes como una vitrina con una bien surtida colección de cabezas reducidas. En “The Divine Drinkery” puedes también encontrar al artista, que se retrata en la obra como si fuese Velázquez en Las Meninas ¿eres capaz de encontrarle?
La edición comercial es de 300 copias más pruebas, editada por Shag en junio de 2023. Pregúntanos si podemos conseguirte una prueba de artista numerada y firmada a mano por Shag. Con certificado de autenticidad expedido por la galería. No disponible para Estados Unidos ni Australia. El precio de las serigrafías de Shag va subiendo paulatinamente (a veces muy rápido) según se van vendiendo las copias de la edición, te recomendamos que si estás pensando en adquirir esta (o alguna otra) no dejes pasar mucho tiempo, puede que más adelante no esté ya disponible o que pudiéndo conseguírtela el precio sea mucho mayor.

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SHAG, Josh Agle (Sierra Madre, California, 1962)     

American artist Josh Agle is better known as Shag (an acronym made by combining the last two letters of his first name and the first two of his surname).

Agle studied architecture in the 1980s but later switched to graphic design, becoming a successful commercial illustrator for clients like Time and Forbes and designing album covers for several California bands, including his own. In 1995, Otto von Stroheim—editor of Tiki News and organiser of the Tiki Oasis festival—invited him to contribute a work to a group show in Santa Monica, where it caught the attention of Billy Shire, a collector and owner of La Luz de Jesus Gallery. He participated in a collective exhibition there in 1996, and his artistic career took off. According to Shire, Shag “created what could be called a whole new genre: twenty-first century hipster cool”. He soon became a cult figure and leading exponent of the Lowbrow movement, and over the years he has become a successful artist whose work is collected by Ben Stiller, Whoopi Goldberg and many other Hollywood celebrities and exhibited in the finest galleries of New York, Los Angeles and Sydney.

His prolific work as a commercial illustrator includes a series of paintings commissioned by Disney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Disney World.

Shag’s art features scenes tinged with irony and mischievous humour, rendered in a distinctive style inspired by the commercial illustrations of the 1950s and 60s. His paintings, with their vivid colours and kitsch aesthetic, are an ode to consumerism and the good life; his characters drink, smoke and eat in stylish, sophisticated settings, in houses designed by Richard Neutra or John Lautner and furnished by Eames, Eero Saarinen, Arne Jacobson and George Nelson.

Shag also finds aesthetic and artistic inspiration in early James Bond films, David Bailey’s photographs of “Swinging London” and the work of artists like Robert Williams (founder of Juxtapoz magazine), Keith Haring and Mark Ryden, whom he greatly admires.