Pelluca
by Retna
Year: 2025
Medium: Enamel with crystalline on canvas
Size: 48 × 36 in
With its striking material presence, Retna’s Pelluca (2025) is an enamel with crystalline on canvas work measuring 48 × 36 inches. The crystalline surface adds depth and texture to the artist’s contemporary visual language, linking refined materiality with the energy of urban art. Its bold scale and distinctive mixed-media finish make this original artwork an appealing acquisition for collectors, with clear title, artist, date, medium, and dimensions supporting accurate cataloguing.
Pelluca by RETNA reflects the artist’s signature fusion of graffiti, calligraphy, and contemporary abstraction. RETNA first developed his visual language through the streets of Los Angeles, where writing became a powerful tool for identity, presence, and cultural expression. Pelluca carries that history into the studio, rather than functioning as a documented street-graffiti piece. This shift gives the work a more intimate, collectible quality.
RETNA’s coded alphabet draws on Gothic lettering, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and his own invented forms. In Pelluca, language becomes image. The layered marks suggest heritage, memory, movement, and communication, while the dense rhythm creates a sense of mystery and energy.
For collectors, Pelluca offers the appeal of owning an original work from a defining period in RETNA’s career. His distinctive calligraphic works have strong recognition across the street-art and contemporary-art markets, making original pieces increasingly important to serious collections.
From our curatorial perspective, Pelluca shows why RETNA’s work stands apart: the surface feels both ancient and modern, familiar and unreadable.
The work belongs to RETNA’s mature calligraphic practice and relates to his broader Margraves and language-based works. It is a compelling example of the moment graffiti evolved into a sophisticated global art language.
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Pelluca
by Retna
Year: 2025
Medium: Enamel with crystalline on canvas
Size: 48 × 36 in
With its striking material presence, Retna’s Pelluca (2025) is an enamel with crystalline on canvas work measuring 48 × 36 inches. The crystalline surface adds depth and texture to the artist’s contemporary visual language, linking refined materiality with the energy of urban art. Its bold scale and distinctive mixed-media finish make this original artwork an appealing acquisition for collectors, with clear title, artist, date, medium, and dimensions supporting accurate cataloguing.
Pelluca by RETNA reflects the artist’s signature fusion of graffiti, calligraphy, and contemporary abstraction. RETNA first developed his visual language through the streets of Los Angeles, where writing became a powerful tool for identity, presence, and cultural expression. Pelluca carries that history into the studio, rather than functioning as a documented street-graffiti piece. This shift gives the work a more intimate, collectible quality.
RETNA’s coded alphabet draws on Gothic lettering, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and his own invented forms. In Pelluca, language becomes image. The layered marks suggest heritage, memory, movement, and communication, while the dense rhythm creates a sense of mystery and energy.
For collectors, Pelluca offers the appeal of owning an original work from a defining period in RETNA’s career. His distinctive calligraphic works have strong recognition across the street-art and contemporary-art markets, making original pieces increasingly important to serious collections.
From our curatorial perspective, Pelluca shows why RETNA’s work stands apart: the surface feels both ancient and modern, familiar and unreadable.
The work belongs to RETNA’s mature calligraphic practice and relates to his broader Margraves and language-based works. It is a compelling example of the moment graffiti evolved into a sophisticated global art language.