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Dark Hall Mansion is pleased to bring back one of our favorite artists, Laurent Durieux, for our next officially licensed limited edition print release in the DHM Seminal Film Series, the original 1954 Japanese landmark film, “Godzilla.” Dark Hall Mansion, under license from Warner Bros Entertainment, will release one of the most influential and classic of all Sci-Fi films, “Godzilla.” First appearing in 1954, “Godzilla’s” impact and influence on worldwide culture is both inescapable and undeniable, yet it’s Laurent’s treatment of the film’s serious underpinnings that moved us in his conceptualization and rendering of something different, something serious and more resonant via his piece. Godzilla’s origin is inextricably tied to nuclear radiation and with Laurent’s depiction of Godzilla’s symbolic rise from the unmistakable shape of a nuclear blast’s mushroom cloud, the horrors of nuclear war and nuclear weapons proliferation are powerfully driven home. We were taken with Laurent’s quiet pastoral landscape that splits time via a distinct before and after moment, one that was very real and very much on the minds of Japan’s society in 1954, just nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and one that is still very much with us and on the minds of all today. The essence of DHM’s Seminal Film Series is to showcase an artist’s work in print in a manner that is visually striking, compelling, and hopefully at times, provocative. We feel Laurent has done just that with his “Godzilla,” his pieces here not just entertain but provoke thought and consideration. His Standard edition’s color palette evocatively underscores his visual’s powerful thematics while his Variant edition has a darker intensity harkening to the film’s black and white origins, its visuals strikingly offset with only Godzilla’s name rendered via kanji. 24" x 36" regular foil edition of 125 signed by the artist printed on foil paper released August 28th 2015 mint condition The print is in excellent condition, stored flat and has never been displayed. The print will be shipped in a sturdy poster tube. Photos are of the actual prints you will receive.