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Xenz Presents: “Cloud Cuckoo Land” @ Blackall Studios (London,UK)
Xenz
Xenz presents: Cloud Cuckoo Land @ Blackall Studios, December 1-4, 2011
PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday December 1, 18:00-22:00
PUBLIC VIEW: Friday, December 2 to Sunday, December 4, 12:00-18:00
British artist, Xenz presents a new major solo show, Cloud Cuckoo Land in London this December.
Famed for his graffiti murals, the artist exhibits a beautiful collection of new landscape paintings which immerse the viewer in an undiscovered world filled with exotic species drawn from the vivid depths of his imagination.
Xenz offers a panoramic view of his fantasy world, presenting a strange utopia where peculiar plants, insects and birds are sighted among the tropical lagoons of moonlit forests. But with the satirical slant of an artist who paints from a dark, gritty warehouse in Hackney Wick, viewers can expect interesting twists such as a bird of paradise sporting Burberry feathers.
Cloud Cuckoo Land shows a body of work created over the last two years. In addition to a new collection of paintings and prints, Xenz’s newest work has seen him experiment with scale by painting on large-scale murals that divide into smaller, compact and highly-desirable pieces.
Xenz successfully marries fine art with urban art forms, using the spray can to capture fragments of memory and subject matter often drawn from the natural world. A love of ornithology and a search for ever-exotic wildlife has led to this greater evolution of the artist’s work.
Xenz explains: “Cloud Cuckoo Land is a kind of childhood fantasy of setting sail to discover a lost world, but ending up in an opium den in Singapore. It’s a celebration of creativity; something happy and joyful, but with a slight twist. I suppose living as an artist is seen as living in cloud cuckoo land by many people and I want to celebrate this by showing people what my dreams look like. Scientists estimate that there are more than 7 million undiscovered species on the planet — that’s inspiration right there!”
An extraordinary cohesion between mind, memory and spray can, allows this influential artist to walk up to a wall or canvas and paint epic landscapes and fantasy dreamscapes from his imagination. Offering a sense of escapism, a Xenz painting has universal appeal, and in the last two years alone, his work has been commissioned for a show by the British Council in India, exhibited globally from Australia to Ibiza, and his work hangs in mud huts in Gambia to celebrity homes in Chelsea.
Xenz paints landscapes imbued with escapism and symbolism and his background in graffiti is still evident. Look closely at a Xenz composition and you might find the letters of his tag worked into the twisted vines or the rocks in a waterfall. “It’s like a game, trying to decipher the code,” he says. “All my work is about escapism: the exotic and that vein. It’s about freedom and I suppose I’m trying to preserve a sense of value in art. I like to create work that takes you somewhere; a picture that takes a few moments more to soak up than an instant slogan or striking image.”
Swoon Prepping “Murmuration” for Black Rat
Street Artist and fine artist Swoon has been laboring in London for the past weeks to prepare art for her upcoming show “Murmuration” at Black Rat Projects. The actual installation has just begun and Mike Snell says it’s “still early days” but they’ve sent us a few behind-the-scenes shots to give BSA readers a glimpse of the developing world of Swoon.
Swoon in action while rocking out to some jams. (photo © Mike Snelle)
Swoon. “Sambhavna” awaits installation at Black Rat (photo © Mike Snelle)
Swoon. “Move it a bit more to the left…” (photo © Mike Snelle)
Things are still a little unsettled in the orchestra pit, with violins and tubas and sheet music all akimbo. Swoon. (photo © Mike Snelle)
Swoon soaring upward while an assistant helps with the installation (photo © Mike Snelle)
Rook & Raven Gallery Presents: David Walker “Brides on Fire” (London, UK)
David Walker
David Walker
Rook & Raven presents
David Walker’s first London Solo Exhibition – ‘Brides on Fire’
Private View 24th November 2011
For guest list please email RSVP@rookandraven.co.uk
Show runs until January 2012
Working in portraiture, painting freehand, using only spray paint and without the aid of brushes David has developed a signature multi-layered style. Incorporating both sophisticated and dumb mark making he creates countless scrawled lines and abstract areas that weave through clashing colours, translucent drips and decaying letterforms, the results are visually rich portraits that fuse photo realism, abstraction and graffiti art sensibilities with a raw energy that comes from the medium. His work is Exhibited in the UK and Internationally and aims to challenge preconceptions about fine art and urban art painting within the gallery confines and the public domain.
Over recent years David has shown work in Berlin, Hong Kong, LA, Lisbon, London, New York and Paris amongst others and his paintings have been shown alongside the leading figures in the urban contemporary and street art movement.
Gallery 7/8 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HN
Tel: 0207 323 0805
Fun Friday 11.11.11
November 11, 2011
Artists, Brooklyn, California, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, L.A., London, Los Angeles, NYC, Opening, San Francisco
I think I missed the morning rush today because I hit the street earlier than usual… and got a seat on the subway (!) because I woke up at 5 a.m. thinking about Papandreou, Berlusconi, Merkel, Obama, and the 3 ring circus shaping up as the 2012 election. The great thing about worldwide impending calamity is, political hypocrisy and economic depression makes artists dig deeper for ways to portray both. That’s why we’re starting today’s Fun Friday with hi-larious satire by the number 16 puncher of all time, Mike Tyson. Always look at the sunny side peepul!
1. CAIN! Mike Tyson for Herman Cain 2012
2. K-Guy’s solo show “Iconic Irrigation”
3. TEEBS at Pawn Works (Chicago)
4. Gregory Siff’s solo “G” at The Site Unscene (LA)
5. Poster Boy in Brooklyn at Might Tanaka Saturday
6. Augustin Kofie “Circulatory System” at White Walls (SF)
7. “Art As A Weapon” (VIDEO)
8. “Luck Be A Lady” – a Frank Sinatra 1965 performance
CAIN! Mike Tyson for Herman Cain 2012
Give it up for Mike Ya’ll! He don’t know karate but he knows KaRazy… just like in the Matrix!
K-Guy’s solo show “Iconic Irrigation”
Opening today to the public at the London West Bank Gallery, a solo show by Street Artist K-Guy, who’s political and social indictments range from Catholic Church hypocrisy to international banking scams portrayed as “crisis”.
K-Guy’s commentary outside the tent village at Occupy London. (photo courtesy of Graffoto)
For further information on this show click here
TEEBS at Pawn Works (Chicago)
A multi-talented California based artist and musician, Mr Teebs’ solo show is called “Lady Luck” opening today in Chicago at Pawn Works Gallery.
Teebs. Still from the video “The Art of Teebs” by Theo Jemison.
To see the video click here
For further information regarding this show click here
Gregory Siff’s solo “G” at The Site Unscene (LA)
Brooklyn born actor, film maker, Street Artist, fine artist Gregory Siff has his solo show “G” today in Los Angeles.
Gregory Siff across a Wall (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)
For further information on this show click here
See Greg hitting up a wall on BSA from this week.
Poster Boy in Brooklyn at Might Tanaka Saturday
There is only one, or maybe there are many, Poster Boy/s. The subterranean subway poster slicing hasn’t been so apparent for a minute, but maybe it’s because PB has been slicing at the old kitchen table in preparation for a proper show. “Not for Prophet” is the title, summoning up the Pharisees, the tax man, and the folks down on Wall Street. Let’s see who and what gets cut.
Poster Boy. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Image by Poster Boy. For further information regarding this show click here
Augustin Kofie “Circulatory System” at White Walls (SF)
Augustin Kofie solo show “Circulatory System” opens tomorrow at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. Graffiti writer and fine artist. Old Skool Bomber. Wildstyle. Mid-Century Abstractionism. American Modernism. Choose One and Stick with it, right? Read our interview with him – Augustine Kofie in Studio
For further information regarding this show click here
“Art As A Weapon” (VIDEO)
Jeff Durkin documentary “Art As A Weapon” explores the intersection of Street Art, Democracy and Buddhisim. View the film’s teaser here.
Jeff’s film is currently in production please help him complete his film with your generous contribution by clicking on the Kickstarter link below:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artasaweapon/art-as-a-weapon
“Luck Be A Lady” – a Frank Sinatra 1965 performance
Stick with me baby I’m the guy you came in with.
London’s Bricklane : A Few Shots of Street Art at the Moment
November 9, 2011
Artists, London, On the Street, U.K.
London continues to apply mud masks and disappearing creams in anticipation of presenting a sparkling face for the 2012 Olympics, and usually that would mean Street Art gets buffed right? Kind of. It’s a tricky position when Banksy has made your city a worldwide tourist destination for many and the Cans Festival is still talked about three years after it brought hundreds to a tunnel next to Waterloo Station. So Street Art persists for selected engagements in selected venues – with and without permission, as ever, despite the whole of UK being covered by millions of cameras.
Photographer Geoff Hargadon shares some images with BSA readers of his foot tour last month in Shoreditch. Part II will follow soon.
Ben Slow portrait of Billy Brown Jr. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Juany. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Ben Eine. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
ROA. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Grimbsy Street. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Untitled. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Milo Tchais and Macay. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Fun Friday 11.04.11
November 4, 2011
Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Film Screening, France, Gallery, L.A., London, Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, Opening, U.K., Venice Beach
1. Checking in on the GAIA tour – Haarlem, NL
2. Faile “Fragments of Faile” at Lazarides in London
3. Anthony Lister in Sydney “Bogan Paradise”
4. “Thinkers of This” – “Other” and Stinkfish at Brooklynite Saturday
5. Jef Aerosol “Walking Shadows”
6. Lady Pink at Woodward Gallery Tonight “Evolution”
7. EL ORDEN IS INTANGIBLE BY BOAMISTURA (VIDEO)
8. MIKE SHINE. OUTSIDE LANDS BY JUXTAPOZ (VIDEO)
Checking in on the GAIA tour – Haarlem, NL
New York Street Artist GAIA is sending missives from the road as he travels – Here’s a piece employing one of his new techniques of overlaying historical portraits on architecture evocative of their time and geography. This one of W.E.B. Dubois creates the connection between cities and peoples.
“A simple portrait of WEB Dubois juxtaposed with three brownstones from Harlem, in Haarlem, NL. the village from which the name of the New York neighborhood is derived,” says Gaia.
Image of Gaia © Nicole Blommers
Faile “Fragments of Faile” at Lazarides in London
The Brooklyn Collective Faile new solo show “Fragments of Faile” opens to the general public today at Lazarides Gallery in London.
Faile. Studio process shot. (photo © courtesy of Faile)
For further information regarding this show please click on the link below:
Anthony Lister in Sydney “Bogan Paradise”
In connection with the big “Outpost” festival on Cockatoo Island in Sydney’s harbor this weekend, Anthony Lister’s show “Bogan Paradise” ppens today at the Gallery A.S.
Anthony Lister. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show click on the link below:
“Thinkers of This” – “Other” and Stinkfish at Brooklynite Saturday
These two talents are putting together a full installation at Brooklynite in Bed Stuy right now. The full story for you tomorrow here on BSA. Check it.
Troy Lovegates AKA Other. Backyard Installation at Brooklynite. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stinkfish. Backyard Installation at Brooklynite. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show click on the link below:
Jef Aerosol “Walking Shadows”
French Stencil Artist Icon Jef Aerosol solo show “Walking Shadows” opens on Saturday in Rouens, France:
Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information reagarding this show click on the link below:
Lady Pink at Woodward Gallery Tonight “Evolution”
The American Graffiti Legend Lady Pink show “Evolution” opens today at Woodward Gallery:
Lady Pink (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show click on the link below:
Also happening this weekend:
PONGTOPIA! Curated by Billi Kid at The Winter Garden. Click here for details.
Paul Insect show “Triptease Revue” at Post no Bills in Venice Beach, CA. Click here for details.
Guerrilla Garden’s “Blacklisted” at Black Book Gallery in Denver, CO. Click here for details.
Emotional Branding Screening of the film “This Space Available” at IFC Center in Manhattan. Click here for details.
SEE ONE “Technicolor Daydreams” At Brooklyn Oenology. Click here for details.
EL ORDEN IS INTANGIBLE BY BOAMISTURA
MIKE SHINE. OUTSIDE LANDS BY JUXTAPOZ
Faile Will Surprise You Tonight at Lazarides Rathbone Place with “Fragments of Faile” (London, UK)
Faile
Faile. “Fragments of Faile” Studio process shot. (photo © courtesy of Faile)
From Lazarides press release:
“Over the course of the past decade, FAILE developed an artistic practice inflected with remixes of mass culture, and built on careful juxtapositions of seeming dualities. Fragments of FAILE allows us to see them working at one frontier of their practice, stripping their painting down to its essentials and engaging a century of the more expressive terrain of abstract portraiture.
This suite of new works provides an intimate counterpart to FAILE’s recent large-scale explorations of religious motifs while drawing out less obvious threads in their practice, from subtle gradations of color and pattern to a conscious removal of clear identities in order to explore archetypical structures beneath.
Assembled from the artists’ own archive, Fragments of FAILE represents not a radical departure, but a rare opportunity to see their iconic practice anew.”
Faile. “Fragments of Faile” Studio process shot. (photo © courtesy of Faile)
Faile. “Fragments of Faile” Studio process shot. (photo © courtesy of Faile)
Faile. “Fragments of Faile” (photo © courtesy of Faile)
Fun Friday 10.28.11
October 28, 2011
Artists
Basically today is the kickoff of a 4 day Halloween weekend of debauchery for many NYC freaks in the streets, loft parties, and bars. You are permitted to wear your Halloween costume at all times, including sleeping in a pile of barf and fake blood.
Some of the favorite Halloween costumes this year are Nicky Minaj, Angry Birds, Captain America, Charlie Sheen, a Pink Slip, a Topless Occupy Wall Street Protester, the Koch Brothers, Snooki or John Bohner (orange paint required), and your Chase Bank Student Loan Officer, Mrs. Snippet.
Top Stories this week on Fun Friday:
1. Bushwick Tonight – Beat Nite
2. The Rainbow Machine at Active Space
3. Launch of “Eloquent Vandals” Tonight in Stavanger
4. DAIN at Rook and Raven Gallery, “You Rest You Rust”
5. D’Face Never Liked What You Did Anyway (VIDEO)
Bushwick Tonight – Beat Nite
Jason Andrew continues to make the rallying cry for this art crawl/bar crawl in Bushwick, Brooklyn and it’s always an eclectic mix of badass, confounding, and clever work inside the galleries that are sprinkled around this neighborhood splattered with a fair share of Street Art. The beat we think of is the one on the streets here, where the air is infused with industrial sediment and diesel fumes, and electricity. Among the wandering artkids, quizzical conceptualists, and the odd hot-aired impresario claiming to be the original scene starter, you can look out for intermittent zombies tonight.
Beat Nite: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late
Friday, October 28, 2011 6-10PM
Voted “Best Neighborhood-Wide Gallery Night” by L MAGAZINE, participating art spaces include among others: Norte Maar, Centotto, English Kills, Famous Accounts, Regina Rex, Storefront, Valentine Gallery, and the long awaited debut of AirPlane Gallery.
The official after party will be held at The Bodega. This episode of BEAT NITE is sponsored by Hyperallergic.
The Rainbow Machine at The Active Space
Interactivity is the name of the game and you can be part of “The Rainbow Machine”, a deceivingly simple installation by Reid Bingham and Sean McIntyre where you stand still with a smile across your face while Sean sprints behind you with his custom programmed rainbow machine. Expect wilder variations in models and backgrounds than these rather tame participants in our example below.
“The Rainbow Machine” by Reid Bingham and Sean McIntyre. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Active Space will be a part of “Bushwick Beat Night”. For more information please click on the link below:
Launch of “Eloquent Vandals” Tonight in Stavanger
If you find yourself in Stanvanger, Norway today NUART invites you to the launch of “Eloquent Vandals”. It’s a history of Nuart we’ve been anticipating!
” Nuart became a focal point for many in the Street Art world because of its highly curated nature and its expansive brand of personal interaction with public space. A hybrid of high-minded civic involvement and an art form with roots solidly in anti-authoritarianism, Nuart has presented a rolling roster of Internet stars and miscreants of the Street Art scene. ” – Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo
The definitive book on one of the worlds leading street art festivals featuring exclusive essays from some of scene’s biggest names. Over 300 pages of exclusive images including works by Swoon, David Choe, Vhils, Blu, Ericailcane, Logan Hicks, Dface, Nick Walker, Judith Supine, Graffiti Research Lab, Blek Le Rat and many more…
Eloquent Vandals tells the story of how Stavanger, a small city on the West Coast of Norway gained a global reputation for Street Art. For the past six years, the annual Nuart Festival has invited an international team of Street Artists to use the city as their canvas. From tiny stencils and stickers to building sized murals, from illicit wheat-paste posters on the outskirts of the city to “Landmark“ pieces downtown, found everywhere from run down dwellings and train sidings to the city’s leading galleries and fine art institutions, Eloquent Vandals documents the development of not only Nuart, but also one of the most exciting art movements of our times. Features specially commissioned essays and texts by Carlo McCormick, Tristan Manco, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, Steven Harrington & Jaime Rojo, Leon Cullinane and Martyn Reed.
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WELCOME TO THE LAUNCH OF THE MUCH ANTICIPATED HISTORY OF NUART BOOK
TOU SCENE, ØLHALLENE
FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER – 19.00
GUEST DJ’S, GIVE-AWAYS, OPEN BAR
For more information regarding this event click on the link below:
DAIN at Rook and Raven Gallery, “You Rest You Rust”
“You Rest You Rust” Opens today in London, featuring work by Brooklyn Street Artist DAIN.
Dain on the streets of London (photo © Dain)
Here’s a sneek peak at one of the new piece’s Dain will be unveiling at the show.
For more information regarding this show click on the link below:
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2011/10/27/rook-and-raven-gallery-presents-you-rest-your-rust-a-group-show-london-uk/
D’Face Never Liked What You Did Anyway (VIDEO)
Rook and Raven Gallery Presents: “You Rest your Rust” A Group Show. (London, UK)
Dain
You Rest You Rust
Rook & Raven Presents
‘You Rest You Rust’ – a group exhibition of Alternative Contemporary artwork. Featuring work by:
DAIN
Dale ‘vN’ Marshall
Daniel Lumbini
Penny
Private View 27th October
Show runs until 17th November
Dain in London (photo © Dain)
Gallery open to the public from Friday 28th October
Gallery
7/8 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HN
Gallery Opening Hours
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 7pm
Late night Thursdays – open until 9pm
“The Minotaur” in London’s Nether Regions
Lazarides Gallery in London has a penchant for spectacular pop-ups in cavernous quarters, effecting a theatrical aura for the work of artists to take center stage. This month, Lazarides dives beneath the City of London, where there lies a complex system of tunnels and activities, including reportedly a military citadel – a bunker called Pindar. The Old Vic Theater, built in 1818, is located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London and just above an almost mythic installation by the gallerist this month. The tunnels and subterranean chambers housing “The Minotaur”, a collection of work by fine artists and Street Artists, add a clandestine mystery for the visitors who venture below. Combined with a program that can include dining and theatre, the mythic theme of the Minotaur is interpreted by the stable of artists to sometimes stunning effect.
Doug Foster (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Photographer and BSA collaborator Geoff Hargadon visited the exhibition and sends these exclusive images to BSA. The 16 international artists in the show, David Falconer, Sage Vaughn, Vhils, ATMA, Zak Ove, Doug Foster, 3D, Antony Micallef, Boxi, Conor Harrington, David Choe, Ian Francis, Jonathan Yeo, Lucy McLauchlan, Michael Najjar, Ron English, Stanley Donwood and Zevs.
If you have missed this, hurry because The Minotaur closes on October 25.
Zak Ove (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Zak Ove (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Zak Ove (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Zak Ove (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
ATMA (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Murdoch with friends. Vhils (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Murdoch with no friends. Vhils (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
Sage Vaughn (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
David Falconer (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
David Falconer (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
The Dining Chamber (photo © Geoff Hargadon)
The Outsiders Gallery Presents: BORF “See Something, Say Something” (Newcastle, UK)
BORF
The Outsiders Newcastle invite you to join us on the evening of Thursday 20th October to celebrate the opening of ‘See Something, Say Something‘, the debut UK solo exhibition from young American artist BORF. The event takes place in the gallery at 77 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, from 6 ’til 9pm.
BORF is one of the brightest young talents in art. Heʼs an angry young man in the finest tradition but his refreshing work makes insurrection delectable.
Formerly a notorious Washington DC graffiti artist, 24 year-old BORF gracefully dodges street art clichés in his gallery shows. He favours watercolours, oil sticks, drawings, sculpture, photography and film over stencils and spray paint. Whereas BORFʼs subject matter is pitiful and angry, his manner is melancholic and idealistic. Rebellion has a romance once more.
‘See Something, Say Something‘ continues the theme of impassioned revolution against a crumbling status quo. In the city we find abstracted commuters opposite transgressive kids: the former are trying to make a living, the latter trying to live.
PRIVATE VIEW – Thursday 20th October, 6-9 pm, The Outsiders, 77 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DE
Exhibition open to the public 21st October – 19th November, Tuesday – Saturday 12-6pm, admission free
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