🎨 Title: Dark Vader
📌 Collection: Star Wars
🎨 Artist: Vincent Bardou
📏 Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 3 cm
🖌 Technique: Aerosol spray, oil paint, collage, airbrush
📅 Year: 2025
🖼 Original Work: Yes – 1/1
📐 Format: Square
🛠 Support: Canvas mounted on Dalbe wooden stretcher
🔳 Framing: None
🔒 Finish: Acrylic varnish (2 coats) for optimal protection
✍️ Signature: Signed bottom right; counter-signed on the back
📜 Certificate: Delivered with certificate signed by the artist

🖤 Dark Vader – a dark pop icon revisited by Vincent Bardou
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With Dark Vader, French artist Vincent Bardou offers a striking reinterpretation of an iconic Star Wars figure, in a resolutely pop art, urban, and contemporary style. Far more than a tribute, this canvas becomes a fusion between geek culture and street art, where the Sith Lord transforms into a bold graphic icon.

On a spray-painted background with layers of pastel and oil, Dark Vader emerges with intensity. Masked, imposing, almost sculptural, he seems to float between light and darkness, legend and rebellion, past and modernity.

🎯 Why was this work created?
This piece is born of the artist’s fascination with pop culture symbols and their transformative potential. Dark Vader, a complex character, embodies the internal struggle, the ambiguity of good and evil, power and fall.

By bringing him into the realm of street art, Vincent Bardou recontextualizes the figure, stripping away its purely cinematic halo to make it a cultural symbol in its own right. A fallen hero on canvas, reflecting our times.

🎨 A hybrid, masterful creation technique
Dark Vader is the result of a meticulous combination of classic and urban techniques. The 100 x 100 cm square format on a Dalbe wood stretcher gives the work a strong, balanced presence.

Oil paint: for volumes and light areas on the mask.
Aerosol spray: for raw contrasts, textured background, graphic depth.
Soft and oil pastel: for subtle details and shading.
Acrylic varnish (2 coats): for durable UV protection and enhanced material richness.

🌌 A unique, powerful, collectible work
This one-of-a-kind work (1/1), signed bottom right and counter-signed on the back by Vincent Bardou, is delivered with a certificate of authenticity, guaranteeing its uniqueness.

This piece appeals to street art collectors as much as to sci-fi fans, contemporary design lovers, or anyone seeking a bold, original, and aesthetic piece for their interior.

✅ Why collect Dark Vader by Vincent Bardou?

Acquire a unique, hand-painted work, never reproduced
Bring a powerful symbol into your interior, blending pop culture & urban aesthetics
Support a renowned French street art artist
Enrich your collection with a timeless, bold piece
Combine modern design with a cult icon in a meaningful artistic approach

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