*APC ART is pleased to present Invader’s “Alert!” (Black Variant), a one-color hand-pulled silkscreen on wove paper measuring 57.9 × 57.9 cm (22.8 × 22.8 inches), hand signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil “INVADER ‘20” from the exceptionally rare edition of only 60 works, published by MGLC Ljubljana on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition “Prints on Paper.”* 

*Recognized as one of the most important and influential figures to emerge from the global street art movement, Invader began his now-legendary practice in Paris in the late 1990s, methodically installing ceramic tile mosaics high across the urban landscape. These pixelated interventions — the celebrated “Invasions” — were conceived not as isolated acts but as part of a rigorously structured, cartographic project in which each city is mapped, documented and scored. From Paris to Los Angeles, Tokyo, London and Hong Kong — and even the Hollywood sign, where the artist was famously arrested while placing a mosaic — Invader transformed the language of street art into a conceptual and historic global system. The silkscreens and editioned works that accompany these Invasions are not merely documentation but autonomous works that translate the logic of the mosaic into the language of printmaking.* 

*Invader’s early releases with Banksy’s Pictures On Walls placed him at the epicenter of the most important print movement in contemporary urban art, alongside Banksy, Shepard Fairey and a generation of artists who redefined the editioned market. Since that time, landmark exhibitions such as “Bad Men Part I & II” and the museum-level presentation “Invader: Masterpieces,” curated by his early gallerists Franck LeFeuvre and Jonathan Roze at Galerie LeFeuvre & Roze, have firmly established his position within the canon of contemporary art. His ambitious “ART 4 SPACE” project — sending one of his works into orbit — expanded the very notion of the Invasion beyond the earth itself, while his current presentation with HENI alongside Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairey underscores his position at the highest level of the international market.* 

*Auction results have confirmed this historic ascent. Invader’s works have achieved seven-figure prices, most notably the monumental Astro Boy Alias mosaic, which realized over €1,000,000 at auction — a watershed moment that positioned him, alongside Banksy, as one of the most sought-after artists of our time. Today his works reside in major private and institutional collections worldwide and are collected by leading figures across film, music, sport, finance and global culture.* 

*“Alert!” (Black Variant) is a quintessential expression of Invader’s visual and conceptual language. The severe black-and-white palette reduces the image to its most essential digital structure, each printed square functioning like a ceramic tile within the grid. The ghost-like figure emerges from the matrix with both playful immediacy and minimalist authority, bridging the aesthetics of early video-game culture, modernist geometric abstraction and the historic tradition of printmaking. The perfect square format reinforces the architectural presence of the composition, while the extreme rarity of the edition — only sixty impressions — places this work among the most desirable and tightly held Invader screenprints ever produced. Having never been framed and always stored flat, the present example is preserved in outstanding condition.* 

*Through decades of discipline, precision and conceptual clarity, Invader has achieved what very few artists in any movement have accomplished: the elevation of a subcultural visual language into a globally recognized and institutionally validated artistic practice. Beside Banksy — and through relentless dedication and risk — he stands as one of the most important and desirable street artists of the contemporary era.* 

*This work represents a museum-quality, blue-chip acquisition and a cornerstone piece for any serious contemporary or urban art collection. We are pleased to offer museum-standard archival framing options. The work is in hand in the United States and ready for immediate shipment.* 

*An iconic and historically significant Invader — destined to become the focal point of even the most rigorously curated collection.* 

*OFFERED EXCLUSIVELY BY APC ART* 
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Provenance
Purchased directly from mglc ljubljana, 2020. 
Private collection; London, England. United Kingdom. 

Included with the work will be a certificate of authenticity issued from APC ART, guaranteeing authenticity in perpetuity. 

Condition
The work is new. The work has never been framed and stored flat to archival standards.