Mona Haring | Angel Ortiz (LA II / LA2)

Angel Ortiz (LA II / LA2, b. 1967)
Mona Haring
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Mona Haring is Angel Ortiz's most formally ambitious title — a work that brings together the most iconic image in Western art history (Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa) and the visual language of his most celebrated collaboration (Keith Haring, with whom he worked for six years from 1980). The combination is both playful and serious: the Mona Lisa as subject has been engaged by artists from Duchamp through Warhol to the present, each engagement asking what it means to take the most reproduced image in art and subject it to further transformation. Ortiz brings to this question the specific visual intelligence of someone who spent six years developing one of the most significant collaborations in the history of street art.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

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