CRIME CITY

Silkscreen printing on Yupo paper (+UV lamp option)
50x70cm
Pixel art, opart, optical art, optical illusions.

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SOLD WITH A FRAME
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‘Crime City’ is the title of the eponymous Japanese video game of 1989.
The artwork is a stark reminder that beneath the city's dazzling facade lies a web of stories, some heroic, others tragic, all waiting to be told.
It also recreates an 80s feel, when 'FOX 5 News' would title its TV bulletin with slogans like "THE ROBBERS ARE GETTING ROBBED", underlying how bad the crimes situation was in NYC 1980s subway trains.

I hence created this artwork with a melancholic aspect of the bold red title with the background of pixelated windows of towering buildings.

This artwork is also an experimentation in pixel art: I tested with pixels that are only composed of two different sizes in equal spacing, further reinforcing the TV screen aspect of the print.

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My 'RGB Printing' technique consists in recreating the look and feel of cathode ray tubes, but on paper. All my silkscreen prints have this signature mark: colors that “vibrate”, appearing so vivid that viewers often mistake them for a computer or TV screen rather than what they actually are: hand-made artworks printed on paper.

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