WALLy a’POWER ART
WALLy a’POWER = WALLPOWER. AN ARTIST NAME, AN ASSET & A COLLECTOR’S SELFFULFILLING PROPHECY
WALLY A’POWER.
A NAME, AN ASSET & A COLLECTOR’S SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY .
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WALLY A’POWER | ABOUT
Wally A’Power explores the tension between visibility and value, using the “wall” — whether white cube, collector’s interior, or institutional frame — as both a site of power and a symbol of exclusion. His name, a wordplay on “wallpower”, or“wall ya power,” folds market language back into artistic identity.
“WallPower . Let ya wall do the talking.” Wally a’Power
Wally A’Power brings the discipline of a cinematographer to the rigor of conceptual image-making.
Each shot is designed to to tell the story.
Rooted in academic training and decades of global visual production, he now distills complex cultural shifts into symbolic, museum-grade photographs.
His work doesn’t document. It proposes: exacting, immersive, and structurally precise.
His visual cycles, use repetition, variation, and in-camera construction to shape images that reflect on extinction, spiritual displacement, and the erosion of ecological and cultural memory.
The result: artworks that speak equally to intellect and emotion, craft and concept.
Isn’t it rare when an image resists explanation — but lingers in the mind as if it always belonged there?
Wally A’Power operates at the intersection of formal discipline and conceptual clarity.
With a foundation in cinematographic training and academic art history, his approach reflects a rare balance of precision and inquiry. Years of global image-making have shaped a visual language rooted in structure, light, and symbolic composition. Each work is constructed — never found.
Hundreds of in-camera trials often yield a single final frame.
What emerges is not a photograph,
but a proposition: a visually immersive,
museum-ready artifact designed to endure close looking and layered interpretation.
Wally A’Power works in cycles, exploring themes such as extinction, spiritual dislocation, and ecological forgetting — not through commentary, but through calibrated imagery.
The camera is not a recording device in his hands, but a sculptural tool: constructing thought through light, frame, and atmosphere.
There’s an intellectual architecture beneath the calm surfaces — and an emotional undertow behind the restraint.
His images don’t tell stories. They initiate them.
For curators,Wally A’Power’s work engages critical discourse.
For collectors, it offers long-view clarity — crafted pieces that hold space, not for answers, but for deeper recognition.
Is there anything wrong with trusting the story that starts inside you?
Collectors don’t just hang these works —They adopt them.They enter a dialogue.
They claim symbols that reflect their worldview, their values — their time.
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FOR REAL?
“Isn’t it interesting how long we can mentally recall an iconic work of art, even if a new commentary on the original is very different and goes in a completely different direction?” That is whatWally A’Power explores in “…For Real?”.
A’Powewr’s interpretations may go far.
Still, we’re tempted to ask: “Is it real or just a story? His visual commentaries explore the myth and pinpoint to the source, to the intitilal sparks that later became most highly valued masterpieces.
They are interpretations so sharp and close to reality,that includes a twinkle in the eye that the viewer feels a powerful connection to the million-dollar paintings.
Here you go. Enjoy!
For real? is a marvel series of photographs, that tosses entertaining comments about famous artworks.
It seems to reveal amusing clues about the masterpieces’ origins, or ranks myths
about the artists and their backgrounds.
If the original got reserved for a museum,
what feels better then, on a collector’s wall? A plagiarism, an epigone’s work, perhaps a poster?
Is an empty wall best? Or a light-footed comment that, on top, adds another dimension to the canon?
A genuine work per se, as well.Too bold to guess that most collectors jump on the last option?
Even though Itsa Bertsy obviously places mere rumours to the canon, these myths unfold the thought provoking powers to “seriously” refresh our art dialog.
What a difference a smile makes!
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Did little marky really drop his iced lolly?
BAMM!
2024
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Hirst?
From sourgums to “Dot Paintings”/
2024
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Wool?
Why not pink fool Mr Wool?
2024
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Jones? Jasper, mesmerized by the girls around the scooter or a true patriot?
2024
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Koons? Did Ciccionlina really ask:”What means poodeling around?:while playing with a condom? 2024
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Jones?
Jasper Jones or Lucio Fontana?
2024
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Longo?
Little Robert’s merry go round favorite?
2024
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Duchamps. Is Marcel around ?
Let’s find and tell him.
2024
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Baselitz? To turn the world or to turn the work around? That is the question.
2021
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Kiefer? Smokers’ corner out-
side Anselm’s student dorm?
2025
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Catellan?
Miami. Just a few days later?
2024
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Catellan?
His domina loved horses?
2024
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KAWS? Because his grandma taught him how to stitch?
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Warhol? “Seven is better than One!”
screamed little Andi? From B-day crowns to series concept. 2024
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Ruscha? Hanging impresively long ’round his crushes fence?
2024
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Lichtenstein? Selffulfilling prophecies or fortune teller?
2024
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Lichtenstein? Did Roy really chat up every single girl?
2024
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On Kawara?
OK —– Which day?
2024
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Baselitz? Did Mike the mechanir really fire George the apprentice? Just why?
2024
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Van Gogh? Was Vincent really seeing ghosts ?
2024
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Did little marky really drop his iced lolly? BAMM!
Inkjet print on fineart canvas.
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Nitsch.
No not Kitsch! That’s a Nitsch!
2024
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Hirst? Was his German uncle really convincing him to deny death?
2024
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“Let’s just round it up! Thirty is better than One.” is what Andi really said?
2016
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TESTIMONIALS
“Being able to engage with a famous, well-known work — something I could never ever afford —
just by hanging another artist’s new, genuine, even amusing comment in my own home?
To my surprise, it works. It really has wall power.
All my friends who visit smile and immediately connect with it.”
“The more you know about the featured artists and the more you know abpout the works,
the more emjoyable it gets.”
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TECHNOTES
Editions:
UNIQUE WORKS: Extra-large prints on Hahnemühle fine art canvas, mounted on wooden frame.
LIMITED EDITIONS: Smaller prints on museum-grade photographic paper.
TECHNICAL APPROACH | IN-CAMERA-RESULTS*:
Photography is chosen here for its immediacy
Part of the “Soon to Be the Last Ones” concept is presenting In-camera results
As paintings, the images would come across as imagined. No?
If created by AI, could they be dismissed as hallucinated?
Photography occupies this narrow space in between.
Somehow, the images feel strangely alive — and yet they are not.
We can’t help but feel puzzled and look again.
This act of looking again mirrors today’s wildlife extinction crisis.
Are species really abundant ? Are we looking closely enough?
Or are we quietly looking away while these dead museum specimens become… Soon To Be The Last Ones?
This insistence on reality is vital to the work’s message. It is here that photography remains irreplaceable.
* Minimal post-production is maybe used, but strictly align with classical photojournalistic rules.
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WALLy a’POWER – POWER YOUR WALLS.
SOON TO BE THE LAST ONES
Nature documentaries most often show a living world. Even when they warn us,
their footage comforts: herds running, birds singing, jungles lush. These images unfortunately speak louder than the documentaries’ voice overs.
What we see convinces the subconscious that all is well.
So what is there to worry about?
The animals in A’Power’s work are real, but not alive.
Taxidermy specimens. Glass cases. Dioramas, staged a century ago to inspire wonder from paradise.
Today, they speak of absence. Of loss. What once educated now becomes elegy — these are not memories, they are warnings. We think we’ve seen the crisis — but we haven’t
truly looked. Our screens mislead us. Wally A’Power’s eye-opening and soul-touching conceptual works don’t preach. They reveal. Quietly. Honestly. And once seen, the truth can’t be unseen.
In these images, the viewer isn’t just observing — they’re being observed.
It feels cinematic. The preserved animals seem to hold eye contact. They confront us. As much as they once stood for knowledge or wonder, they now reflect something else: loss, responsibility, complicity.
The museum becomes a theatre of reversal.
We look at these creatures from behind glass, but their gaze meets ours. And with it comes a quiet, unsettling question: Who is really on display?
What was once a triumph of preservation now stands as a relic of absence.
A shadow of life. Not nostalgia — but a warning. These dioramas were built to teach. Now they testify.
Each work by Itsa Bercy captures that tension: between life and stillness, beauty and threat. Between us and them. These aren’t just photographs — they’re portraits of a vanishing world, one that may soon exist only behind glass. And this is where the viewer becomes participant.
Collectors and curators who bring these works into view don’t just show images — they amplify awareness.
A work that touches the soul, even in an uncanny way, proves that its message has reached us. To exhibit these images is to help them speak. And to give them space is to let them warn — while there’s still time.
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Tiger
2019
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UNIQUE 115cm X 200cm.
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Lion
2018
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Baboon
2019
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Alligator
2018
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Spiral Horned Antilope
2019
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Bison
2019
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Rhino
2019
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Antelopes
2018
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Giraffe
2018
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Ostrich
2019
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Zebra
2018
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Ostrich
2019
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Flamingo
2018
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Rhino
2016
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Giant Fish
2018
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Gigantic
2016
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Baboon
2019
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Ostrich
2019
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White Capped Vulture
2019
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Black White Colobus
2019
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Rhino
2019
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Baboon Curious
2018
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Roarr!
2018
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Bears
2019
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Pink Cockatu
2018
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Bird Couple
2018
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Parrots
2024
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Tears in my Eyes
2016
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Cheetha
2018
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Butterfly Flirting
2018
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Billy Goat
2018
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Baboon
2018
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Ostrich Family
2019
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Buzzard On A Stick
2018
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Zebra
2018
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Once Upon A Time – The End
2016
Inkjet print on fineart canvas.
UNIQUE 115cm X 200cm.
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TESTIMONIALS
“Collectors and curators who bring these works into view don’t just show images—they amplify awareness. A work that touches the soul, even in an uncanny way, proves that its message has reached us. To exhibit these images is to help them speak, and to give them space is to let them warn—while there’s still time.
“They’re rattling sticks echoing the urgency and truth
behind the extinction crisis. Every single one of them.”
“If you’re aware of your own soul and see these works…
Is it really possible not to feel that the time is now —to stand up and protect what’s left of this planet’s wild living souls? When, if not now?”
So is it wrong to ask if : “You still got soul?”
Just put the uncanniness aside.
Each unique work in this show makes a vital contribution —
is a visual wake-up call: We are not far from this point, and
it is man-made!
We can go on, look away, or we can stand up to avoid that !
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COLLECTORS ANCHOR
COLLECTORS
COLLECTOR’S PAGE
Wally A’Power has spent over 40 years turning narratives into powerful images that pull viewers into another world. His visual art doesn’t just capture moments—it creates connections, sparking deeper conversations. In a time when all eyes turn towards AI, real photography still remains essential, especially when a concept demands to be grounded in reality. Wally’s work thrives at the crossroads of the real and the symbolic, using a camera, instead of brushes or prompts, to capture raw authenticity and create worlds that feel both immediate and meaningful.
As Joseph Campbell put it, “Every generation must create its own mythology, its own symbols.” Wally’s work is a testament to that—
creating new symbols, grounded in our real world, that will resonate with both today’s audience and future generations.
Collector’s interested in aquiring please get in contact via your specific work’s “aquire”button.
Collector’s interested in buying Limited Editions please get to the shop, or get in contact via the “aquire”button.
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GALLERISTS ANCHOR
GALLERIST
GALLERIST’S PAGE
If you’re a top-tier gallerist in a region where Wally A’Power is not yet represented, consider this an invitation to reach out.
Let’s explore whether we’re a good fit and discuss how we can together introduce fresh, relevant discourse to your region’s art community.
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NEWS ANCHOR
NEWS
Itsa Bertsy appreciates when journalists connect with his work.
When they write about it, the ideas travel further.
If even one open-minded person, of any age, starts to act after seeing things differently, the work has done its job.
Is it wrong to anticipate that journalists and artists somehow share the same goal — making people aware?
”Wally is a visual powerhouse whose position contributes contemporary relevance to the art canon
For over 40 years, he has crafted striking visual narratives for the world’s top brands,
turning commercials and campaigns into cinematic experiences that border on art.
Today,, he brings that same mastery to his fine art, creating images that feel real, immersive, and symbolically rich.
“His Name Speaks Volumes: Wally A’Power—Art That Powers the Walls, Moments That Power Our Minds.”
EXHIBITIONS:
- TRANSFORMATION – Sam & Ross Gallery Londion Hamburg. Groupshow Winter 2026
- GIFT OF LIGHT – Sam & Ross Gallery Londion Hamburg. Groupshow Winter 2025
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