Intervention Barcelona © Debens 2008 click on the image
One of the most interesting and exciting artists to have emerged from Barcelona in the last decade
Debens' Collectables
Bar Friends by Debens
Special Limited Edition: 25
(84cm x 59.4cm)
Giclée Fine Art Print
310gsm photorag paper
DEBENS' Postcard
Untitled by Debens
The first in a series of
14 postcards commissioned
to accompany the BCNXL
exhibition at The Smithfield Gallery in London 2008.
focus on DEBENS
Debens' works intended for a public audience have an engaging sensitivity to their location. He was the main creative influence behind ONG, which was formed in Barcelona in 2001 and the first artist to extend street art beyond spray paint. Experimenting with painting, sculpture, photography and performance, Debens produces an alternative aesthetic and highly suggestive anti-consumer visual.
Deleting and omitting letters, suppressing elements of reclaimed works and revealing others, Debens' light touches are often topical reflections on contemporary culture.
David Crockett Debens sketch
Debens' Roadworks and Readymades
Chairs (sillas) began appearing throughout the city in early 1999. Debens' chairs were symbolic, 2D representations, featured as found objects in mixed media graffiti and the basis of an intensive propaganda campaign.
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David Crockett Debens Street Art Barcelona
Strongly influenced by the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Marcel Duchamp, Debens' works became the Readymades of the late twentieth century. Like Rauschenberg's Combines, Debens works are simultaneously paintings, sculptures and collections of found objects.
"I f*ckin love debens work." BCNSTYLE