Dan Baldwin: New to KounterKulture!
The works of British artist Dan Baldwin are highly sought after and have been exhibited at galleries worldwide.
Since his run of sell out solo shows in the late noughties and the significant success at a Bonham’s auction in 2008 (‘Apocalypse Wow – The End Of Everything’ sold for £25,000) Dan has been continually in demand both in the UK and abroad featuring in VOGUE, Men’s Health, ELLE magazine, the Art Street Journal in L.A, The quarterly with ‘Escape Artist’ and more.
KounterKulture are please to add to our website one of the most talked about and influential artists of this generation, Dan Baldwin, with four original works available for a limited time prior to his forthcoming London solo show.
A Long Way From Home and Swallowed by the System are mixed media on canvas, created using a mixture of emulsion, spray paint and oils while incorporating physical objects like toy guns, US dollars and razor blades.
Beautiful Decay and Death in Paradise are two exclusive ceramic vases, they are an integral part of the artist’s Apocalypse Wow series and represent the ‘messed up’, spontaneous side of Dan’s work. Dan explores the contrast between a beautiful fired and glazed ceramic vase papered with provocative graphics such as skeletal birds on crucifixes, Adolf Hitler, teddy bears, crippled war heroes and hanging donkeys.
Dan’s work has a sinister yet beautiful feel to it - dealing with topics such as beauty, Decay, Vanities and symbolism, religion, innocence and politics. In throwing together opposing elements, he creates a poetic, chaotic and conflicting combination of life and death. His use of colour, in particular the candy pastel shades, is inspired from the Mexican death celebrations, ‘El dia de los Muertos’.
Dan Baldwin - Long Way From Home
Dan’s work is never planned, the spontaneity of his work takes on a courageous journey where good meets evil, life meets death, cynicism meets innocence and is full of contradictions.
His recent work incorporates real butterflies, bullets, war medals, US dollars, Iraqi dina and burning flags set upon an ethereal spray paint background with clean graphic hand painted elements. He comments,
“My work has always been about the fine line between the sinister and the beautiful. By presenting opposing elements I create a landscape of contradiction and suggestion.”
“Vanitas made a lot of sense to me, when I discovered it, its use of symbolism was a reference to our mortality, the gun, the flower, the fly, the skull, etc – all referred to death being omni present.”
So to add Dan Baldwin to KounterKulture is a great honour; his work is influencing and exclusive and is now available on site and for a limited time only.