{"product_id":"retna-marc-of-the-wooden-soldier-unique-work-2025","title":"RETNA — Marc of the Wooden Soldier (Unique Work, 2025)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Los Angeles in 1979, RETNA stands among the defining voices of international street art, celebrated for a visual language that fuses ancestral calligraphy with contemporary urban culture. His instantly recognizable script—drawing from Gothic forms, Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew echoes, alongside invented symbols—functions less as text than as a sacred, abstract code, turning walls and canvases into visual incantations that sit comfortably between street origin and museum context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc of the Wooden Soldier is a monumental, museum-scale unique work executed with enamel, colored sand and diamond dust, materials that amplify the physicality of RETNA’s mark. The surface catches and releases light, giving the calligraphic field a hypnotic rhythm that feels at once ritual and metropolitan. The title evokes an heroic yet fragile narrative register—suggesting a mythic or spiritual presence behind the writing—while the composition condenses the artist’s core vocabulary: matter and luminosity, devotion and contemporary tension, permanence and pulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarge-format unique works by RETNA, particularly those incorporating diamond dust or similarly precious finishes, are widely regarded as among the most sought-after segments of his output, supported by sustained international demand across the US, Europe and the Middle East. With institutional visibility—exhibitions and presentations associated with museums and major galleries—and a cross-cultural resonance that has extended into music, fashion and design, this 2025 canvas offers collectors a rare convergence of scale, material sophistication and unequivocal authorship, with strong long-term relevance for serious contemporary and urban-to-institutional collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53877280244052,"sku":"2987","price":97020.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/file-1762773640880-1.png?v=1772726521","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/retna-marc-of-the-wooden-soldier-unique-work-2025","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}