Marco Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970’s Hollywood. By using licensed images of Brad Elterman’s photographs, he provides viewers with a window into a fascinating and exclusive time on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip.
This large 60 inch tall by 67 inch wide photograph on glossy paper is edition number 2 of 3 large images based on Brad Elterman’s iconic images “Behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977”. The imagery is carefully layered until the artworks reveal a whole new reality. It is framed in a white frame. Size and price include frame. It is titled and signed on the back. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable international shipping. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Looking through Elterman’s photographs, one can quickly realize that he wasn’t the average teenager growing up in the 1970s. Rather, his celebrity photographs attest that he was living the dream. As his classmates munched on Cap’n Crunch and listened to the new Runaway’s record, Brad hung at the infamous Tropicana Motel with Joan Jett. On weekends, he swam with the The Sex Pistols, frequented the Playboy Mansion, and casually grabbed late night grub with Joey Ramone. Young and clever, Brad knew where to be and how to get in. With his cool demeanor and Bob Dylan hairstyle, he fit the part. At the age of 17, Brad became one of Hollywood’s most influential celebrity photographers, providing uncensored documentation of the gritty-glamorous life of 1970′s Rock n’ Roll.
Marco Pittori states of Elterman’s photos, "Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready.”
Pittori's work has been collected and exhibited internationally since 1999. Some of his public collectors include the Ramones Museum in Berlin, the Bank of Baselland, and the Gunter Sachs Collection.
REPRESENTATION
Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC WORKS & COLLECTIONS
2013 Sammlung Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank, Liestal
2013 Sammlung Migros Bank, Base
2012 Ramones Museum, Berlin
2012 Sammlung Arthur Cohn
2011 Nachlass Sammlung Gunter Sachs
2008 / 2010 Rist management, Switzerland
2006 Gruner AG, Basel
2006 Psychiaterische services, Liestal, Switzerland
2005 Bank of Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2004 / 2007 Birshof clinic, Münchenstein, Switzerland
2003/2004/2005 Kantonalbank Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2002 / 2004 Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Sichtbar Hamburg, kuratiert von Cosma Shiva Hagen
2011 Arlesheim Apartments
2010 Galerie Eulenspiegel "Cafe Dallas", Basel, Switzerland
2007 Galerie Louise Grossenbach, Winterthur, Switzerland
2004 / 2006 Coop, Muttenz, Switzerland
2002 / 2004 Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland
2002 Castle fields estate, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Pathologie, Basel, Switzerland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Gallery Ahoi Port Adriano, Mallorca (with Udo Lindenberg, Gunter Sachs), Spain
2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
2015 New York Affordable Art Fair, New York
2013 Gallery Lumas, Zurich, Vienna, Munich
2013 Cultural Association Muttenz, Switzerland
2013 Peach Editions, New York
2013 Galerie Hamburg Kennedy, New York
2012 Galerie Eulenspiegel "Nude Hollywood", Basel, Switzerland
2011 Galerie Zero, Art Plan-B Project, Berlin, Germany
2011 Kunst und Stadthalle Zug, "Pop Art in Zug", Switzerland
2011 Galerie Ohne Titel, Winterthur, Switzerland
2011 Artspace Warehouse, Basel Junction L.A., Los Angeles
2010 Gallery Lumas, New York
2010 Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Workshop Wolfensberger, Atelier Exhibition with Dominique Lämmli, Celcile Wick, Samuel Burri, Switzerland
2010 International Symposium on lithography, Tidaholm, Sweden
2010 "pop art train" with Sam Shaw and Jörg Döring
2009 Gallery Lumas, Stuttgart "fabulous Las Vegas", Germany
2009 Gallery Eulenspiegel "Artists of the Gallery", Switzerland
2009 Gallery Münchow, Zurich, "pop is hot", Switzerland
2009 Gallery Kunstreich, Bern, Switzerland
2009 Train, "modern art and Town Hall way turn"
2009 Gallery Münchow, Zurich, "urban street art", Switzerland
2008 Photo L.A., Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles with Baltasar Burkhart, A. Strba, Stefanie Schneider
2008 Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles
2008 Gallery Eulenspiegel, Basel pure pop art (with Steve Kaufman, former Assistant to A. Warhol), Switzerland
2007 Galerie Thoma & Thoma, Basel with Brad Elterman "Like it was Yesterday", Switzerland
2007 Gallery of Lumas, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt with St. Schneider, M. A. Strba, Germany
2007 Galerie Louise Grossenbach, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007 Photo Miami, Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles with Baltasar Burkhart, A. Strba, Stefanie, Schneider, D. Armstrong
2006 Gallery i9, Regensdorf, Switzerland
2006 Black art 8, Effingen
2006 Art room 06, lower factory, Sissach, Switzerland
2005 V Gallery, "Angel", Basel, Switzerland
2005 Gallery Thoma & Thoma Edition 500 with B. Luginbühl, O. Mansutti 1999 Gallery of St. marks, Australia
2004 Gallery i9, Regensdorf
2002 / 2003 Christmas exhibition District 6, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 / 2002 Young, Olten, Förderung durch artig
2000 Pathologie, Basel
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Lithography "Memphis"
2009 Book “Künstler waren Kinder” in Wolfsberg Verlag, Switzerland
2007 Lithography Foundation Louise Grossenbach, Switzerland
2006 Serigraph Gruner AG, Switzerland
2006 Art calendar Basel artists, Verlag Schaub Medien Sissach, Switzerland
2005 Illustrations for COOP magazine Forte, Switzerland
2005 Lithographs for exhibition 2006
2004 various lithographs for exhibitions
2003 Lithography for graphical Forum, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Praline packaging for Rondo AG, Allschwil, Switzerland