Mr Oreke - THE AVIATOR

Original artwork
Acrylic on cotton canvas
Signed bottom right and on the reverse.

100 x 70 cm
With a 10 cm border
Total size: 110 x 80 cm
Canvas shipped rolled in a tube

Certificate of authenticity provided

Born in 1986, Mr.Oreke is a self-taught French artist who describes his work as ‘Street Pop Art’. In the early 2000s, he encountered the visual arts through graffiti practice. Armed with his spray cans, he began covering walls with his brightly colored drawings before continuing his gesture on canvas. His style inherits from the Pop Art movement and the aesthetics of comics. Abstraction predominates in his early work. Mr.Oreke’s distinctive feature lies in his backgrounds, which he mainly creates with spray paint in a graffiti-inspired manner. The artist combines ink with acrylic, and sometimes incongruous elements such as banknotes. The storytelling, tinged with humor, is imbued with whimsy and a liberating energy. A freedom of form is added by a mix of collages, splashes, typographic elements... and it echoes comic books.