From Painting Patti to Cutting Wood

After seeing Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ album cover, her jacket-over-shoulder ease of presence photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe, a young Swiss artist by the name of Franz Gertsch endeavored to immortalize the punk poet in a series of five larger-than-life paintings, presenting her as omnipresent yet authentic, while forging an auspicious, hyperrealistic start to his own career in art.


From Painting Patti to Cutting Wood
Source: Hint Magazine

From Painting Patti to Cutting Wood

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