Futura COMMUNITY (White) 2019 Silkscreen Print, Signed Edition of 100, Kaikai Kiki
Futura COMMUNITY (White) 2019 Silkscreen Print, Signed Edition of 100, Kaikai Kiki
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A Gathering in Line
Futura trades the spray can's orbits for a quick, bright hand: a crowd of coloured figures over a dark lattice. It is light on its feet, and full of the energy of the street.
Best for: Collectors of graffiti-born art and the Kaikai Kiki circle
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Described as new and unused, never framed, kept flat in its original packaging.
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Loose, quick lines in blue, red, green, yellow and violet gather into a crowd of figures above a heavy black band of crosshatching: COMMUNITY (White), a 2019 silkscreen by Futura, issued through Kaikai Kiki in an edition of 100.
The Piece
Futura came out of the New York subway writing of the 1970s and became known for an abstract, almost scientific style of spray painting, all orbits, atoms and floating forms. Here the hand is lighter and more playful. The drawing looks spontaneous, like marks made with a fistful of coloured pens, yet each colour is laid down as a separate screen, and the dense black lattice beneath anchors the whole sheet like a street or a stage.
The title suggests a gathering, and the forms do read as a group, jostling and overlapping. Futura's long friendship with Takashi Murakami led to exhibitions and editions through Kaikai Kiki, and this sheet belongs to that exchange.
The print is a silkscreen, offered as signed, as the description states, with the edition given as 100. The sheet is described as acquired new from Kaikai Kiki and kept unframed in its original packaging, and it will be sent in that packaging.
Details
- Artist: Futura
- Title: COMMUNITY (White)
- Year: 2019
- Medium: Silkscreen
- Edition: 100, as described
- Signature: Offered as signed
- Image: 38.2 x 55 cm (15 x 21.7 in)
- Sheet: 48.2 x 65 cm (19 x 25.6 in)
- Frame: Unframed sheet
- Condition: Unused, kept in its original packaging
Condition
- Described as new and unused, never framed.
- Kept flat as a sheet in the packaging it was issued in.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Signature and edition are given as the description states them. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing with acid-free mounts, and hang away from sun and damp.
Delivery from Japan
The sheet travels flat, never rolled, between rigid boards in a box packed by hand in Japan, insured and tracked. The Desk weighs EMS, FedEx and air freight in turn, so the shipping charge is quoted and agreed with you before purchase.
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Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer. More editions from the Kaikai Kiki circle wait in Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki and Superflat, and the newest arrivals in Just Arrived.
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