The magnificent creation stands as a stellar, museum-grade benchmark of contemporary mixed media artwork. Developed by creative partnership Hunter & Gatti as a core pillar of their BLUE collection, this unique masterwork investigates the creative friction between photographic precision and loose action painting. The composition overlays a high-fidelity black and white archival print featuring global music icon Bruno Mars with directly poured, tactile fields of deep blue acrylic paint and fluid golden splatters that break the commercial flatness of the original editorial image.
This piece is part of the H&G series titled "BLUE", where they keep questioning fashion photography industry by creating a new visual identity of their images moving them away from their origin, as a vehicle for testing ideas and as a form of interrogation of the creative process itself, through this series.
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Mixed Media Artwork - Now Bruno Mars, 2017. by Cristian Hunter
Now - Bruno Mars, 2017
Mixed Media on Archival Pigment Print
Dimensions: 19.5 H x 14.5 W in.
Unframed
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
Cristian Hunter’s work starts from that belief. His photographs —created over a solid international career— are not mere documents, but open territories where painting, texture, and gesture expand photography into new dimensions of meaning. Hunter explores how an image can shift in meaning over time—how context, memory, and manual intervention can transform what was once captured into something newly revealed. Each piece is an invitation to look again, to uncover what lies beneath the visible. Guided by the premise that “nothing stays still,” he works from his personal archive, reinterpreting it, giving new life to what was once lived, and breaking the linear flow between past and present. His lens has captured renowned figures such as Pharrell Williams, Penélope Cruz, Jennifer Lopez, Ewan McGregor, Lalisa Manoban, Adria Arjona, and Bruno Mars, among many others. Yet his focus goes beyond portraiture—what truly interests him is what remains when the image stops being literal and begins to emerge as a living object. His current body of work includes both new pieces and selected artworks from the artistic legacy of Hunter & Gatti, which he now manages. These are duly credited as “ created by Hunter & Gatti,” presented alongside his personal practice and establishing a dialogue between history, transformation, and contemporary gaze. His work has been exhibited in cities such as Barcelona, New York, and Miami, and reflects a visual practice grounded in experience, exploration, and ongoing evolution.
