Stan Solo Stan Solo is a visual artist / music producer based in Prague with almost a decade of freelance experience in illustration, mural art and art lecturing with well over 50 commercial projects and 4000 students in his portfolio. Working with large and small companies as well as individuals, he embraces traditional techniques and passes the love and joy of analog art on his clients and students.
Regardless lack of conventional education, his natural curiosity and perserverance helped him master traditional media and techniques in order to manifest own ideas and discover his artistic identity on the go. Learning the hard way gave Stan the advantage of understanding the struggle of learning drawing and illustration and made him a truly profound and empathetic art tutor.
With a pack of group exhibitions backing his practice, local and international, Solo produces intricate portrait – based artworks inspired by urban environment, mostly rooted in, what he calls, anonymous portraiture, telling the stories of the streets composing cardinal characteristics of chosen objects of interest and people in a unique manner, putting heavy emphasis on form and content, resulting in detailed art that is meant to be observed, not consumed. Stan’s love for the grit and grunge of the concrete and asphalt ambience emanates from his childhood. Growing up in an industrial city where technical structures meet classical architecture, grotesque surroundings influenced him to the point the textures, surfaces, architectural elements and street art bits became the main ingredients of his present body of work. Aside captivating aesthetics and fresh point of view, Stan’s work exaggarates the meaning of art practice for the ordinary observer, helping society to understand urban art better, craving it’s acceptance and understanding by wider audience. A special emphasis is put to the „smaller“ urban art forms, such as stickers, paste-ups and tags.
Second integral part of Solo’s work is his music production, based upon the very same principles. Carried on the aesthetics of classic gritty late 90’s hip hop crunch and texture, his distinguishable sound travels through the alleys and metro tunnels, tastefully merging urban soundscapes and cherry picked samples and instruments. Your ear can catch glimpses of the semaphore clicking, car horns playing a side melody or tram wheels hitting the tracks sustaining the percussive rhythm line. It’s hard to tell if Stan illustrates covers for his music or creates soundscapes for his art. One way or another, both compliment each other in a very delicate fashion, deepening the experience and amplifying the experience he translates into the both mediums.
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