{"id":866,"date":"2017-01-30T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-01-28T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:23:03","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-ahol-sniffs-glue-tropical-depression-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-ahol-sniffs-glue-tropical-depression-in-paradise","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Ahol Sniffs Glue “Tropical Depression In Paradise”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Ahol Sniffs Glue<\/b><\/span>
\nTropical Depression In Paradise<\/i><\/span>
\n2017<\/span>
\nMixed media collage<\/span>
\n30 x 22 in.
\nSigned on verso<\/span><\/p>\n

About This\u00a0Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This work presents Ahol Sniffs Glue\u2019s famous lovable characters in a completely different light than what we are used to.\u00a0For a very long time Ahol has been working in a completely different style\u00a0and medium, but was never fully confident in showing that work.\u00a0Not because the style was not good, or the work was not of the highest caliber, but because for as long as he can remember, his artistic career was built upon a certain style, that everyone has known and loved for so long.\u00a0This is a drastic change in style that,\u00a0the artist feels,\u00a0\u201cfeeds his soul\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Tropical Depression in Paradise\u00a0<\/i>is made of collaged elements of cloth, felt, thread, wood, a Crown Royal sack, Kool cigarettes, and even beard hair, to name a few.\u00a0With his recent success, his work can sometimes become glamorized. While the whole time, Ahol maintains that his work is the exact opposite of glamor.
\nHe has always tried to show the darker, grittier, real side of life in Miami, not the Miami that outsiders know of,\u00a0sunshine,\u00a0beaches, palm trees, bronzed women in bikinis at the clubs in South Beach.<\/p>\n

The central figure is his well known figure of an atypical, typical person standing on the street, perhaps Biscayne Boulevard.\u00a0Looking closely at her, one can see she is created with many different unique elements, from her weave of thread to her face of a Crown Royal sack, wearing a body suit of jute, and gold trim, down to the wood veneer chancletas, (and if you look real closely at her, you can even see part of Ahol\u2019s beard).\u00a0 She is standing next to a beautiful, most creative version of a Miami Palm tree constructed of Kool cigarette packages, and pencil sharpening for a trunk.<\/p>\n

It is the background of this work, that allows the viewer to get a true sense of the artist, and the real city that he calls home, Miami.\u00a0Filled with cigarettes, Taco Bell packets of hot sauce, cocaine baggies, pills, and Chinese fortunes, intertwined with spliced collaged photos of random people, palm trees, la Virgen de la Caridad de Cobre, his bus pass and jury duty notices, we see how the artists lives, and shows off the city that he loves.\u00a0You will see something different every time that you look at it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahol Sniffs Glue Tropical Depression In Paradise 2017 Mixed media collage 30 x 22 in. Signed on verso About This\u00a0Work: This work presents Ahol Sniffs Glue\u2019s famous lovable characters in a completely different light than what we are used to.\u00a0For … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,291,16,79,20,14,493,373,242,84,21,248,8,83,9,15,102,62,232,23,12,13,85,88,222,17,89],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}