King of Smoke

🎨 Title: King of Smoke

Artist: Fair Fab
Medium: digital collage, acrylic, marker, spray textures
Size: 100 × 150 cm
Year: 2025
serie limited x 10

🖼️ Description

King of Smoke captures a raw, fragmented portrait of Johnny Depp, transfigured into an archetype of modern rebellion. Crowned but disillusioned, his eyes pierce the viewer with the quiet violence of a man who has become his own myth.

The composition is intentionally unstable: graffiti-like inscriptions, layered textures, and vibrant strokes clash with photographic clarity. The cigarette becomes an emblem — part defiance, part ritual. Around him, visual chaos reigns: scratches, abstract symbols, and traces of subconscious thought. The atmosphere oscillates between cinematic stillness and street-art urgency.

Rather than glorifying the figure, the artist deconstructs it, exposing the vulnerability behind the icon.

🧬 Influences & Artistic References

• Jean-Michel Basquiat: for the raw linework, symbolic layering, and chaotic composition

• David Lynch: for the psychological tension and fragmented identity

• Julian Schnabel: in the monumental, expressive treatment of the male portrait

• Street Art & Punk Aesthetic: anarchic energy, distressed textures, urban visual language

• Pop Culture Deconstruction: exploring the erosion of public figures in the age of overexposure

🗨️ Gallery Note

More than a portrait, this work functions as a psychological X-ray. Johnny Depp appears here not as a star, but as a vessel for contradictions: power and fragility, chaos and silence. Fair Fab invites the viewer to question the myths they consume — and the price of becoming an image.