RETNA | Ludovico & Ludavico Turquoise & Pink

RETNA (Marquis Lewis, b. 1979)
Ludovico & Ludovico | Turquoise & Pink
Stone lithograph on BFK Rives paper | Limited edition

Ludovico & Ludovico presents RETNA's constructed script in a format that emphasises the architectural quality of his mark-making: a symmetrical composition in which two passages of the artist's proprietary language face each other across the picture plane, creating a formal dialogue that mirrors the doubled title. The turquoise and pink palette — characteristic of RETNA's willingness to work in colour combinations that feel simultaneously urban and archaic — gives the lithograph a luminosity that suits the stone printing process.

RETNA developed his script — a system drawn from Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, Gothic blackletter, and the graffiti tradition of his Los Angeles youth — over three decades of sustained practice. The result is a visual language that reads as writing without being legible, that communicates across cultural boundaries precisely because it belongs to all of them and none of them simultaneously. His work sells consistently at five figures on the secondary market and is held in institutional collections internationally.

Stone lithograph on BFK Rives paper: a classic fine art printing substrate that gives the work a quality of surface entirely different from the spray-paint and acrylic of his large originals. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Stone lithograph on BFK Rives paper
Limited edition
Certificate of Authenticity