Friday
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Tuyo 'Life Is Weird' Print Available
Friday, October 31, 2025 
Artist: Tuyo
Title: Life Is Weird
Medium: 1 Color Linocut Print
Size: (A2) 42 x 59.4 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $175
*there is also some hand embellished variants available
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Tuyo is the creative alias of David Schmitt, a self-taught German printmaker and painter born in the early 1990s and now based between southern Germany and Barcelona. Working without formal art-school training, he has built an international following of more than 63,000 Instagram followers who are drawn to his instantly recognisable “primitivist” aesthetic: bold, flat colour fields, thick black outlines and densely packed patterns that feel simultaneously childlike and ancient
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Schmitt begins each piece with hand-drawn sketches, then layers acrylic, ink and digital touches to create surreal vignettes where sacred and secular symbols collide angels float beside cassette tapes, tigers guard steaming coffee cups, and jazz musicians wear halos of stars and flowers. The compositions echo medieval illuminated manuscripts, Mexican folk retablos and 1980s skateboard graphics, yet the palette is unmistakably contemporary: candy pinks, toxic greens and metallic golds that pop off the page or wall.
Limited-edition screen prints are produced in small runs on heavyweight cotton paper, often finished with spot varnishes or gold leaf so the surface catches light like a low-relief icon. Original paintings on reclaimed wood panels carry the same reverence for texture, letting rough grain peek through saturated hues, a reminder of the handmade in an increasingly digital world.
Recent collaborations include a capsule collection with apparel label Far A Field, where jazz motifs were translated into embroidered shirts, and a sold-out print release via Drool Art that featured a serene figure whispering “It’s Okay,” a mantra that captures the gentle optimism running through Schmitt’s work. Whether pasted as a wheat-paste alleyway piece or exhibited in Barcelona’s Miscelanea gallery, Tuyo’s art invites viewers to pause, smile and find solace in the playful collision of past and present.
