--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Art Shows cover: alt: '' height: 1620 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/pabo-urban-portraiture/pabo-exhibition.jpg width: 2432 credit: '' date: '2010-03-02T18:30:40Z' description: Two days ago, I visited the “Face to Face” exhibition by street artist Pabo in Berlin. What I found were some great portraits of some famous people. Here are some impressions... tags: - Berlin - Gallery - Pabo - Portraiture title: 'Urban Portraiture: Pabo Art Show' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/pabo-urban-portraiture/ --- # Urban Portraiture: Pabo Art Show > **Pabo** (...) isn't the first street artist who represents pop culture icons- but rather for technique. He makes pencil drawing portrays, crowded with signs, with the pale and subtle colours of crayons and of ballpoint pen scratches. > > Famous ghosts, in absolutely classic style. Jimi Hendrix, baron jacket and maudit neckwear, becomes an alchemist, lighted by acid glares, with strong and tender features like the boys of Caravaggio. Hendrix, in the triptych in which he appears, is flanked by a preacher, Martin Luther King, and a dancer, Cassius Clay. (press release) ...this is a part of the introduction for **Pabo**’s “Face to Face” exhibition at [Superplan Gallery](http://www.superplan.net/) in berlin, which opened five days ago. I recently visited the exhibition, was astonished about the filigree lines and detailed eyes of the portrayed people and [took some photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetart-berlin/sets/72157623416344421/). Here they are... ![pabo urban art]() pabo urban art ![pabo urban art]() pabo urban art