RETNA | Untitled (ca. 2012)

RETNA (Marquis Lewis, b. 1979)
Untitled (ca. 2012)
Original

This untitled original from approximately 2012 represents RETNA at a pivotal moment in his career — the period immediately following his first major institutional recognition and the beginning of his collaborations with Chanel and Louis Vuitton, when his constructed script was becoming one of the most immediately recognisable visual languages in contemporary art. The ca. 2012 date places the work in the year of his collaboration with Justin Bieber's Journals album cover and his growing presence in the luxury fashion world.

The untitled designation is characteristic of RETNA's approach to his constructed script works: the visual language is the subject, the marks communicating through rhythm and form rather than through verbal meaning. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Original, ca. 2012
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