Devin Miles

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Devin Miles (born May 12, 1961 in Duisburg ) is a German artist. He is considered a representative of Contemporary German Pop Art .

Life

Miles initially completed two craft training courses before turning to the visual arts in 2001. At first he experimented with digital art, but then turned to a symbiosis of screen printing and painting. His specialty are screen-printed collages. Miles is married with two children and lives near Hamburg.

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Devin Miles is a Pop Art artist . He admires the work of Robert Rauschenberg and after his first attempts in the field of media art, decided to use screen printing as a technique. Since 2006 he has primarily used brushed aluminum panels as a medium. With sometimes more than 20 seven he brings up his motives. He also paints over them and sprays them with an airbrush gun.

Miles is motivated by the world of American and European cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. He chooses portraits of famous actors of the time such as Marilyn Monroe , Brigitte Bardot , Romy Schneider , James Dean or Steve McQueen and combines them with symbols of everyday and consumer culture in a manner typical of Pop Art.

Since around 2015 Miles has been using flat wooden boxes instead of aluminum plates, which he covers with gold or silver leaf. He then applies the prints and the painterly elements to this surface. In terms of motifs, he remained true to the faces of the film icons, but combined them with characters from literature and mythology.

Miles' works are exhibited internationally and distributed by galleries in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the USA and Israel. Miles has been in the collection of entrepreneur and art patron Reinhold Würth since 2015 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin (D)
  • Pitarohecht, Herzliya Pituach (IL)
  • Art Box Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • Kameha Suite, Frankfurt / Main (D)
  • Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich (CH)
  • Gallery Löser, Erfurt (D)
  • Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (D)
  • Proarta Gallery, Zurich (CH)
  • Art Fair, Cologne (D)
  • Gallery Ilka Klose, Würzburg (D)
  • Gallery Spoon, Basel (CH)
  • Art Innsbruck, Innsbruck (A)
  • Gallery Hodler, Thun (CH)
  • Galerie am Park, Davos (CH)
  • Galeria K, Palma de Mallorca (E)
  • Stroke, Munich (D)
  • Fame Gallery, Zurich

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review in Börsenverlag, accessed on September 3, 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boersenverlag.de
  2. ↑ Main Echo, March 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Miles, Devin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg