Marwan Shahin

High Time- High All Day Artwork Giclee Limited Edition Print on Photographique Rag Paper by Pop Culture Graffiti Artist Marwan Shahin. Marwan Shahin's "High All Day" Collectors edition of only 5 prints of each. From High Time series, Debuting in 2015, Released for the first time produced by Shahin Studios, released in celebration of the new year. Only 5 Available of each2015 18 inches x 22 inches Giclée on Photographique Rag Signed, Numbered, Embossed and Branded High Time: High All Day by Marwan Shahin – A Radiant Fusion of Time, Status, and Enlightenment High All Day is a standout piece from Marwan Shahin’s acclaimed High Time series, crafted in 2015 and released in an extremely limited edition of only five prints. Produced on 18 x 22 inch Photographique Rag paper and finished with Shahin’s signature embossing, branding, and numbering, this giclée print extends the series’ surreal reinterpretation of luxury timepieces as profound cultural and symbolic artifacts. In High All Day, Shahin replaces the watch dial with a celestial face encircled by golden rays, transforming the wristwatch into a sun deity—a visual metaphor for illumination, opulence, and modern obsessions with visibility and value. The radiant gold of the spiked bezel bursts outward like a sun crown, each point merging elements of a timepiece's mechanics with solar symbolism. At the center of the dial, the intricately detailed face gazes out hypnotically with spiral-rendered features and reddened eyes, echoing the dreamy haze found in High All Night. However, where High All Night explores the twilight haze of indulgence, High All Day evokes the blinding clarity of the spotlight—fame, materialism, and constant awareness. Time as Power, Time as Currency Marwan Shahin continues his exploration of modern symbolism through the framework of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork. The work critiques the societal glorification of luxury, fame, and hyper-productivity. The gilded wristwatch—a universal symbol of affluence and achievement—is elevated into a mythic idol, reminiscent of both solar gods and corporate logos. The crown at the top of the watch dial references Rolex, reinforcing the link between luxury branding and cultural deification. This stylized anthropomorphization of the timepiece underscores the duality of time as both liberator and captor. The spiraling background, rendered in precise linework, creates a kinetic energy around the figure. The radial blue field suggests motion, light, and expansion, as if the sun-like figure is actively emitting influence. This energy resonates with Shahin’s intent to depict how fame and status radiate outward—both elevating and consuming those who orbit them. Graffiti Philosophy Meets Symbolic Precision As with the rest of the High Time series, High All Day is grounded in a meticulously detailed aesthetic. The symmetry of the design, the geometric rhythm of the band, and the finely etched facial features show Shahin’s background in architecture and classical draftsmanship. Yet it remains rooted in street pop culture through bold iconography and visual commentary. The glowing red eyes signal both fatigue and vigilance, implying that in today’s digital age, even daylight is infused with the pressure to perform and stay visible. This piece pushes the viewer to consider how contemporary society equates time with productivity, productivity with value, and visibility with validation. In this way, High All Day not only satirizes luxury watches but transforms them into a canvas for spiritual and sociopolitical critique. A Daylight Manifesto in Giclée Form Marwan Shahin’s High All Day serves as a radiant counterpoint to High All Night, reflecting the relentless pulse of daytime hustle and social exposure. With only five prints ever made, it offers rarity that mirrors the exclusivity it critiques. Both sacred and satirical, it merges ancient sun symbolism with modern material culture, making it a powerful artifact for collectors of contemporary street pop art. Through High All Day, Shahin continues his exploration of the ways humans personify time, idolize wealth, and seek transcendence through possession.

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High Time- High All Night Artwork Giclee Limited Edition Print on Photographique Rag Paper by Pop Culture Graffiti Artist Marwan Shahin. Marwan Shahin's "High All Night" Collectors edition of only 5 prints of each. From High Time series, Debuting in 2015, Released for the first time produced by Shahin Studios, released in celebration of the new year. Only 5 Available of each2015 18 inches x 22 inches Giclée on Photographique Rag Signed, Numbered, Embossed and Branded High Time: High All Night by Marwan Shahin – A Timepiece of Surrealism and Symbolic Luxury High All Night from Marwan Shahin’s High Time series is a limited edition giclée print that explores the fusion of luxury iconography with deeply symbolic visual storytelling. Released in 2015 and printed on 18 x 22 inch Photographique Rag paper, this artwork is part of an ultra-exclusive collector’s edition—just five prints exist, each signed, numbered, embossed, and branded by the artist. In this captivating piece, Shahin transforms a luxury wristwatch into a surreal portrait of time, identity, and indulgence. At the heart of the watch face lies a serene, almost celestial human visage, rendered with Shahin’s signature linework. The hypnotic spiral of concentric lines forming the face draws the viewer inward, suggesting a meditation on time as an infinite, psychedelic experience. The eyes glow with a reddish haze, implying both fatigue and euphoria—an embodiment of the High All Night title. The watch bezel is crowned with a reference to the Rolex coronet, placing the work firmly in the cultural orbit of status, consumerism, and power. Luxury Dissected Through the Lens of Street Pop Art Marwan Shahin’s visual language consistently challenges the viewer to re-evaluate societal values through the lens of street pop art and graffiti artwork. In High All Night, he uses the recognizable shape and prestige of a Rolex-style timepiece as a stand-in for themes of capitalist worship, eternal urgency, and the blurred line between high life and high mind. The aesthetic is sharp and deliberate, with bold blues and golds contrasted against spiraling black linework, capturing the cyclical nature of indulgence and repetition. By integrating the human face into the machinery of a watch, Shahin offers commentary on how time has become internalized—both a measure and a master. The red eyes framed within a luxury symbol evoke a culture caught between glamour and exhaustion, where time is both a drug and a debt. The visual metaphor pushes viewers to question what they are measuring with their time: productivity or experience, ambition or presence. Visual Storytelling Across Time Zones and States of Mind High All Night functions on multiple levels—as an homage to traditional craftsmanship, a critique of luxury culture, and a deeply symbolic expression of modern life. The hypnotic details recall both ancient Egyptian engravings and the precision of high-end horology, while the surreal face speaks to the human cost of keeping up with a relentless world. Shahin's decision to use fine art giclée printing enhances the tactile and tonal qualities of the work, creating a luminous, museum-quality piece that captures the nuances of his inking and shading. Unlike many works in the pop or graffiti art genre that rely on brashness or satire alone, Shahin’s High Time series offers layered depth. It invites introspection, yet its polished execution and visual clarity make it immediately arresting. The print's ultra-limited nature—a mere five copies—ensures that it becomes not only a meditation on rarity but also a rare object itself. A Timeless Reflection in the Face of the Clock Marwan Shahin’s High All Night reminds us that luxury is not always liberating, and time is not always linear. It is a portrait of an age where the watch on the wrist says as much about identity as it does about hours passed. In Shahin’s hands, the watch becomes a mirror, a face, and a symbol—watching us as much as we watch it. With this artwork, Shahin once again proves his ability to distill the spirit of contemporary culture into a single, unforgettable image that transcends trend and challenges perception.

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Habibi- Dame HPM Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print With Acrylic & Diamond Dust on Photographique Rag Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist Marwan Shahin. 2022 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 33 Marwan Shahin's "HABIBI" series an iconic portrait of Lebanese singer Fairuz interpreted throughout different stages of experiencing love, This very limited edition of 33, which each print is intricately arranged with a filigree of Diamond Dust to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects. Habibi: Dame by Marwan Shahin – A Diamond-Dusted Tribute to Love and Legacy Marwan Shahin’s Habibi: Dame stands as a visually powerful homage to Fairuz, the legendary Lebanese singer and cultural icon. Created in 2022 as part of the HABIBI series, this limited edition of only 33 signed and numbered pieces showcases Shahin’s unique ability to fuse emotive portraiture with contemporary street pop art aesthetics. Executed as a Giclée print on Photographique Rag and hand-embellished with acrylic and diamond dust, the piece exudes both reverence and modern flair, embodying the enduring spirit of Fairuz through a modern visual dialect. The artwork presents a stark, black-and-white depiction of Fairuz’s face, defined by Shahin’s signature optical linework and dramatic lighting. Her gaze is upward, expressive, and timeless, framed by circular ripple-like waves that echo the tonal warmth and resonance of her voice. The intricate line patterns across her hair and facial features offer a hypnotic rhythm that feels simultaneously vintage and futuristic, aligning the singer’s cultural memory with contemporary visual form. The use of minimal color and strong contrast gives the image its compelling clarity, allowing every curve and contour to stand out in an almost celestial glow. A Modern Saint in Pop Art Halo Fairuz is one of the most celebrated voices in Arab music history, often considered a unifying figure across the Middle East. Shahin, an Egyptian artist known for his ability to recontextualize cultural figures through the lens of street pop art and graffiti artwork, elevates her to icon status in a way that transcends time and borders. By using diamond dust across select areas of the portrait, the piece gains a luminous, tactile quality that mimics the glittering impact of her presence in the Arab world. This glimmer isn’t just decorative—it deepens the aura, transforming the piece into a sacred relic of cultural devotion. The title Dame adds to this reverence. It places Fairuz not just in the pantheon of global musical excellence but frames her as a matriarchal force in Arab identity and artistic resilience. The halo-like rings behind her head subtly reference both vinyl records and saint-like iconography, creating an aesthetic bridge between musical legacy and divine inspiration. Love, Heritage, and the Heart of the HABIBI Series Marwan Shahin’s HABIBI series is rooted in the emotional spectrum of love, from longing to celebration, heartbreak to transcendence. In Dame, that emotionality is steeped in admiration and memory. This series doesn’t merely romanticize—it archives the phases of affection and cultural passion through a distinctly Arab pop lens. Shahin’s style, which blends traditional engraving techniques with a street-art pulse, allows this work to function both as personal expression and public monument. For collectors and fans of graffiti artwork and modern Arab aesthetics, Habibi: Dame offers a rare chance to own a piece of meaningful history—one that sits at the intersection of timeless music, visual innovation, and deeply rooted cultural reverence. The work affirms Shahin’s position as a voice for a new generation of Middle Eastern artists who navigate identity, nostalgia, and beauty through boundary-pushing visual storytelling.

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Habibi- Demon HPM Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print With Acrylic & Diamond Dust on Photographique Rag Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist Marwan Shahin. 2022 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 33 Marwan Shahin's "HABIBI" series an iconic portrait of Lebanese singer Fairuz interpreted throughout different stages of experiencing love, This very limited edition of 33, which each print is intricately arranged with a filigree of Diamond Dust to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects. Habibi: Demon by Marwan Shahin – The Darkest Mirror of Love Habibi: Demon by Marwan Shahin erupts as the most confrontational piece in his HABIBI series—a raw, unflinching portrayal of love at its most distorted and destructive. Signed and numbered in a limited edition of just 33 prints, this 2022 hand-embellished Giclée on Photographique Rag Paper combines acrylic and diamond dust with a violent visual vocabulary that stands apart from the rest of the collection. With sharp chromatic contrast, hallucinatory linework, and surreal horror-inspired iconography, Shahin captures a love that has curdled into obsession, vengeance, or emotional decay. At the center of the artwork, the face of legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz has been transfigured into a blazing red skull—eyes piercing, lips peeled into a skeletal grimace, and crowned with menacing horns. The symbolic use of red and black conjures danger, rage, and forbidden power, while the swirling cyan background draws viewers into a disorienting emotional vortex. This composition demands attention, not just for its aesthetic strength but for its thematic force: the seduction and toxicity of love once it crosses into the realm of self-destruction. Symbolic Violence and Cultural Reverberations Marwan Shahin reconfigures Fairuz—an icon of romantic melancholy and poetic longing—into a demonic muse, embodying how love can take the shape of madness, control, or spiritual fragmentation. The transformation is not arbitrary. In the arc of the HABIBI series, Demon represents the terminal stage of the romantic cycle Shahin has mapped: from yearning to revelation, and finally to emotional collapse. Here, Fairuz’s visage is consumed by inner turmoil, visually echoing the emotional scars hidden behind public personas and cultural expectations. The visual aggression is softened only slightly by the shimmering presence of diamond dust, which adorns the background with hypnotic glints. This layering of glamor over decay echoes the duality present throughout Shahin’s work: beauty masking suffering, intimacy corrupted by ego, and memory crystallized through trauma. Shahin’s use of optical patterns and stylized textures transforms this portrait into a kaleidoscope of chaos—modern love painted with a gothic pulse. A Masterstroke of Street Pop Art and Emotional Brutalism Habibi: Demon is not just a pop culture remix or an experimental graffiti artwork. It is an unfiltered emotional statement rendered through the language of street pop art, executed with exacting technique and deep psychological insight. Shahin’s graphic mastery—a blend of Middle Eastern visual heritage, revolutionary symbolism, and Western pop iconography—makes this print both a compelling piece of visual culture and an emotional weapon. In street pop art, artists often immortalize heroes, satirize leaders, or reframe history. But in this work, Shahin elevates emotional pain itself into the subject. The skeletonized Fairuz isn’t a caricature or villain. She is an archetype—the demon we all face when we confront the shadow side of our own desires, betrayals, and heartbreaks. This piece dares to say what others don’t: that love, when twisted, can become monstrous—and that there is strange, terrifying beauty in that truth. Habibi: Demon is a defiant addition to any serious collection of pop art or graffiti artwork, and a statement on the emotional extremes that define both human relationships and modern iconography.

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Habibi- Dammed HPM Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print With Acrylic & Diamond Dust on Photographique Rag Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist Marwan Shahin. 2022 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 33 Marwan Shahin's "HABIBI" series an iconic portrait of Lebanese singer Fairuz interpreted throughout different stages of experiencing love, This very limited edition of 33, which each print is intricately arranged with a filigree of Diamond Dust to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects. Habibi: Dammed by Marwan Shahin – A Keyhole Into the Fractures of Love Habibi: Dammed by Marwan Shahin is a haunting and emotionally saturated piece that continues the artist’s compelling exploration of Lebanese music legend Fairuz through the lens of modern street pop art. This 2022 work is part of the HABIBI series, a collection of limited edition Giclée prints—only 33 copies exist—each hand-embellished with acrylic and diamond dust on Photographique Rag paper. With this piece, Shahin delves deeper into the psychological terrain of love, vulnerability, and memory by introducing bold symbolic motifs and a dramatic palette shift. The most striking element is the red and black optical wave background, which radiates tension and intensity. It contrasts sharply with the calm, solemn gaze of Fairuz, whose face is rendered in Shahin’s now-iconic engraved style. But this version introduces an arresting twist: a keyhole-shaped cutout in her face reveals a second, stylized inner portrait. That smaller image—a blue-hued, teary-eyed rendition of Fairuz’s likeness—invokes a fractured duality, as if the viewer is peering into her hidden emotional depths. Symbolism, Inner Worlds, and the Emotional Keyhole The use of the keyhole as a framing device is particularly powerful. It evokes the sense of unlocking private emotion, memory, or heartbreak—allowing viewers access to an internal world usually concealed from the public eye. The interior portrait rendered in bold blue and crimson tones acts as the psychological counterpoint to the stoic exterior. This duality captures the volatility and complexity of romantic love, a recurring theme throughout Shahin’s HABIBI series. Shahin’s hand embellishments, particularly the application of diamond dust, add another dimension to the work. The sparkle of the dust against the matte and flat inks creates visual tension—glamour clashing with grief, radiance interwoven with ruin. Each piece in the edition carries its own nuances due to these handcrafted touches, ensuring that every collector receives a one-of-a-kind artifact that echoes the layered nature of its subject matter. Pop Culture, Street Art, and Arab Emotional Realism As with other works by Marwan Shahin, Habibi: Dammed is deeply rooted in the visual language of street pop art and graffiti artwork, but with unmistakable Middle Eastern sensibility. Fairuz—long considered the voice of the Arab soul—is an apt muse for such a project. Shahin transforms her from a musical icon into a symbolic vessel for the universal experience of longing, heartbreak, and emotional revelation. Rather than idealize, Dammed humanizes. It pushes against the polished veneers of celebrity and national identity to reveal the turbulent inner tides that define the human experience. It is love not as perfection, but as a landscape of contradictions—intimate, messy, radiant, and raw. This piece is more than a portrait; it is an invitation to witness the private wars waged inside public figures, and a powerful testament to Shahin’s mastery at balancing emotion, iconography, and craft in the tradition of globally conscious pop art.

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