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The Incognitos

2023
20-ink hand pulled screen print on thick cotton rag paper
Edition of 200 copies plus proofs. Numbered and signed by Shag
99,1 x 148,6 cm

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Puede ser que las fiestas y celebraciones selectas sean una de las temáticas más populares de Shag, y por las que es más conocido. Si eres de los que disfruta con ellas estás de enhorabuena porque The Incognitos se desarrolla en una de ellas, con un despliegue cromático de 20 colores y en un escenario muy especial: la casa Kaufmann diseñada y construida en 1947 por el arquitecto Richard Neutra en el exclusivo barrio de Vista Las Palmas en Palm Springs, CA. La edición comercial es de 200 copias más pruebas, editada por Shag en 2023. Pregúntanos si podemos conseguirte una prueba de artista numerada y firmada por el artista. Enmarcado a medida sólo para recogida en tienda. 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 alguna no dejes pasar mucho tiempo, puede que más adelante no esté ya disponible o que estándolo el precio sea mucho mayor. En el momento de escribir esta nota disponemos de una única copia de esta serigrafía.

Shag, Josh Agle

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.

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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.

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