Imitate Modern Gallery

Imitate Modern Gallery An urban contemporary art gallery with a difference. Based in Mayfair, London with group and solo exhibitions featuring our international artists.

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“Shields has produced images that play with notions of the gaze, power structures, hyper-realism, iconoclastic-tendencie...
06/12/2022

“Shields has produced images that play with notions of the gaze, power structures, hyper-realism, iconoclastic-tendencies and cinematographic practice”.

Internationally, Tyler Shields exhibitions attract record-breaking attendance, while his limited edition prints are some of the most sought after images in the world. In his ten-year career Shields has photographed all manner of celebrity-- Hollywood legends like Bruce Willis to tech giants like Elon Musk. Shields’ earliest work chronicles young Hollywood glitterati doing what every magazine told him could not be done, such as Lindsey Lohan running wild through Los Angeles and Emma Roberts jumping off of buildings.

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Artwork details:
Tyler Shields
Primary Lips, 2019
Chromogenic print on Kodak Endura

German artist Max Wiedemann undermines pop culture images to challenge the misrepresentations of ideas created in advert...
01/12/2022

German artist Max Wiedemann undermines pop culture images to challenge the misrepresentations of ideas created in advertising. Commissioned by VH1 for a series of celebrity paintings, the artist has also collaborated with photographer Tyler Shields on the cover of The Big Issue newspaper. After working in advertising for a decade, Wiedemann concluded that art was a pertinent method for connecting to a contemporary world. He developed a unique method that enables him to integrate graffiti with glamorous advertisements and pop culture images onto canvas. He aims to configure how we perceive pop culture by situating art as advertisements. Works such as Recently Richer (2018) integrate luxury brand names like Rolls Royce with clever titles aimed at the conceit of the rich. Wiedemann’s work is influenced by high fashion and celebrities and artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

Artwork details:
Max Wiedemann
Vogue (Bella Hadid), 2018
Mixed media
59 1/10 × 47 1/5 in | 150 × 120 cm

Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration fro...
26/11/2022

Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from a successful career in the fashion industry as a shoe designer for brands such as Paul Smith, and also her work in magazines as a designer and art director, Sara aims to capture the sensuality and seductive power conveyed by the lips and mouth. Interested in questions of beauty, communication, and the notion of perfection, Sara uses the perspective of her commercial experience to explore these themes.

The starting point is a makeup brush and a lipstick. She paints the models’ lips, then, using tricks and techniques of makeup and lighting, she begins the process of creating the perfect lips. She asks the model, to express different emotions which she captures photographically. Using these shots as inspiration she begins the artwork. The painting process involves several layers of thin oil-diluted paint being overlaid, blending and smoothing the colours extensively at every stage, sometimes also mixing lipstick into the paint.

Emulating the stylistic slickness of advertising, the result is glossy, perfect and irresistible.

Artwork details:
Sara Pope
BLUE VELVET, 2020
Oil on gesso covered circular wood panel
39 2/5 in diameter | 100 cm diameter

"Artist Day-z grew up in London and studied Fine Art at Central St Martins. Combining techniques learned from the classi...
22/11/2022

"Artist Day-z grew up in London and studied Fine Art at Central St Martins. Combining techniques learned from the classical masters with current culture Day-z creates a signature style that fuses street style with fine art, using pen and pencil to create intricate and exquisite drawings, Day-z’s unique talent speaks to a growing audience of followers and collectors." I-M Magazine

Artwork details:
Day-z
This Is A Man’s World, 2014
Pen, pencil and colour pencil on Canford Card, float mounted and framed
33 × 33 in | 83.8 × 83.8 cm
Edition of 1

Who is Mr Brainwash? Thierry Guetta (B. 1966) is a French-born artist who grew up in Los Angeles, California. He is now ...
18/11/2022

Who is Mr Brainwash?

Thierry Guetta (B. 1966) is a French-born artist who grew up in Los Angeles, California. He is now known by the name Mr Brainwash by which he publishes his art. His cousin was the first person to introduce Guetta to street art. Banksy then encouraged him to pursue his career further. He is also a videographer and filmmaker and has previously been in the business of selling vintage clothing in Los Angeles, New York and Miami, where he was highly successful. Since then, he has amassed over one million followers on social media. However, he isn’t a one-hit-wonder as his public profile has continued to grow even years after his initial collaboration with Banksy.

Artwork details:
Mr. Brainwash
Mondriart, 2010
Screen print on textured archival paper
36 × 36 in | 91.44 × 91.44 cm

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Nana del Riego is a photographer born in 1996 in Havana, Cuba. Educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejand...
10/11/2022

Nana del Riego is a photographer born in 1996 in Havana, Cuba. Educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and the University of Fine with distinction in Cuba, she is now living in Mexico City. Although her background is in painting, she has transitioned into the field of digital photographer, preferring the immediacy and “reality” in it that echoes line with current times, where photography appears as king of social networks, advertisements, magazines, tabloids, etc.

Referencing Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, David LaChapelle, Alexander McQueen in addition to the influence received from social networks, which are endless galleries of human behavior. Working mostly with self-portraits, her photography works the presence of the female body.

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Artwork details: Nana Del Riego, Lava Gum

“Shields has produced images that play with notions of the gaze, power structures, hyper-realism, iconoclastic-tendencie...
06/11/2022

“Shields has produced images that play with notions of the gaze, power structures, hyper-realism, iconoclastic-tendencies and cinematographic practice”.

Internationally, Tyler Shields exhibitions attract record-breaking attendance, while his limited edition prints are some of the most sought after images in the world. In his ten-year career Shields has photographed all manner of celebrity-- Hollywood legends like Bruce Willis to tech giants like Elon Musk. Shields’ earliest work chronicles young Hollywood glitterati doing what every magazine told him could not be done, such as Lindsey Lohan running wild through Los Angeles and Emma Roberts jumping off of buildings.

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Artwork details:
Tyler Shields
Ferrari High Heel
Taken on a Hasselblad film camera as a part of the Indulgence series

Boots Goes to Beverly by Born in 1995, Daniel Sachon is a British image maker and creative director. Sachon is known fo...
23/10/2022

Boots Goes to Beverly by

Born in 1995, Daniel Sachon is a British image maker and creative director. Sachon is known for his complex, detail-orientated approach; he deconstructs and employs the visual indicators of the shared languages of art and commerce, allowing him to reverse engineer the image making process and meticulously construct worlds that exist somewhere between art and commerce, reality and fantasy. His work is a triality of visual exploration; it questions how a narrative is created art-historically, celebrates our enduring obsession with ageless glamour, and critiques the slick and meticulous formation of advertising campaigns designed to subliminally inform our lives.

Today is the last day to catch BI***ES by at 59 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 3DZSeen here is ‘off to the races’ fe...
17/10/2022

Today is the last day to catch BI***ES by at 59 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 3DZ

Seen here is ‘off to the races’ featuring who also wrote the exhibition text ‘Daniel Sachon loves bi***es …’

Image-maker Daniel Sachon presents a never-before-seen photography series BI***ES in Soho during week. The irreverent and tongue-in-cheek photographs stage mise-en- scènes feature an all-star cast of famous and fabulous women, accompanied by a selection of stunning dogs that humorously mirror their human counterparts.

Shot by Sachon in London and Los Angeles, the incredible women in the project include supermodel and socialite , transgender model and social media savant, , daughter of John Paul Getty and fashion muse, , fashion designer .wade , Vivienne Westwood’s granddaughter, , artist, photographer and filmmaker, and British supermodels, and

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Born in 1995, Daniel Sachon is a British image maker and creative director. Sachon is known for his complex, detail-orientated approach; he deconstructs and employs the visual indicators of the shared languages of art and commerce, allowing him to reverse engineer the image making process and meticulously construct worlds that exist somewhere between art and commerce, reality and fantasy. His work is a triality of visual exploration; it questions how a narrative is created art-historically, celebrates our enduring obsession with ageless glamour, and critiques the slick and meticulous formation of advertising campaigns designed to subliminally inform our lives.

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