No More Fantasies

From our experience, collecting valuable art does not have to break the bank or require a trip to New York, London, or LA's hottest contemporary gallery. 1xRUN is working with leading established and emerging artists providing weekly limited edition, signed, authentic and exclusive print runs. These print releases, or RUNS, are open for one week only. Once it closes, the work is produced to the specifications and quantity sold in the RUN. Victor Castillo is a Chilean painter renowned for his distinctive fusion of pop surrealism, political satire, and darkly whimsical imagery. Castillo began drawing obsessively at the age of five, inspired by cartoons, science fiction films, and album covers like Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Castillo’s paintings are characterized by cartoonish figures with exaggerated features, often set against dreamlike or dystopian backdrops. His work draws inspiration from vintage animation, comics, graffiti, and classical art, particularly Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings, which he encountered during a visit to the Prado Museum in Madrid . This blend results in a visual language that juxtaposes innocence with underlying themes of violence, power, and societal critique. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.