Marco Rea is a Rome based artist representing Italy's lowbrow/pop surrealism. He takes glossy billboards of lip gloss kissed women in today's advertising and defaces them. Taking the smooth Photoshopped skin and bright highlighted eyes and armed with spray cans, destroys the original intent, resulting in something a lot darker.
For me he's taken away the fake branded posing model and replaced her with a beautiful melancholic disturbed being. It's funny how what could lie underneath is being plastered on with a mask of paint
So here's to Marco Rea for turning the pin up women who belong on your walls into monsters under your bed.
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