Anthony Lister (AU) – Broke Arm Punk
Anthony Lister (AU)
„Broke Arm Punk”, 2016
4C screen print / blue, red, white painted by hand
on Munken Pure Paper, 300g/m²
40×50cm, ed.: 36
Anthony Lister helped pioneer street art in Brisbane before moving to New York in 2003, building a career as one of Australia's most collectable — and most polarizing — contemporary artists. His paintings crash high culture into low with reckless energy: superheroes in varying states of decay, ballet dancers rendered with an action painter's aggression, old masters reimagined through the chaos of the street. As uncompromising in life as in his work, Lister has never been one to play it safe — a true hardliner of the scene whose biography reads as turbulently as his canvases. Solo exhibitions in Sydney, Miami, New York, London, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong have cemented his reputation internationally.
We invited Lister to Vienna for Double Vision Never Felt So Good, a solo exhibition at the Jan Arnold Gallery, where he produced new work and this screenprint edition.
Broke Arm Punk is pure Lister — a figure caught between gesture and chaos, painted by hand over a four-color screen base in blue, red, and white. Each print in this edition carries its own hand-painted layer, making every copy unique. The rawness recalls de Kooning's Women series — figurative painting pushed to the edge of abstraction by sheer physical energy. On heavy Munken Pure paper.
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