Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
UK: London: June 15 - July 14, 2012: THE CHROME ANGELZ
The Chrome Angelz
MODE2, ZAKI, SCRIBLA, PRIDE, BANDO
Greek Street, Soho, London
from Friday June 15th until Saturday 14th of July
Do not miss this historic occasion!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
UK London: 6th April – 6th May 2012: PEZ
PEZ
Smiling since 1999
6th April – 6th May 2012
Tonyʼs Gallery is delighted to present “Smiling Since 1999″ – the first UK solo exhibition by the legendary Spanish street artist PEZ.
PEZ first started painting his iconic ‘smiling fishʼ logo in the streets of Barcelona in 1999 and has since established a worldwide reputation with exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia. Now PEZ is bringing his happy and fun style to London for his exhibition at Tony’s which will celebrate his work and bring some colour and cheer to the streets of the capital.
PEZ currently lives and works in Bogota (Colombia) and will draw inspiration from his country of residence to develop his solo show at Tony’s by creating a Colombian beach bar installation within the gallery space.
The exhibition will feature an in-situ mural presenting PEZ’s recognisable fish jumping in from the street walls outside onto the canvases within the gallery, alongside a direct intervention onto the gallery walls and a selection of new works including canvases and limited edition screen prints.
Visitors to the gallery will be able to experience positive vibes from PEZ’s smiling fish artworks and enjoy the chilled out atmosphere of the PEZ BAR.
Look out for PEZ’s fish as they will be popping up in all kinds of unlikely places around Shoreditch over the next month.
For any further infomaition, press enquiries or to interview the artist please contact Tony at info@tonysgallery.com
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Nearest tube: Shoreditch High Street
www.tonysgallery.com
Tony's Gallery
68 Sclater Street, London, E1 6HR tel: +44 (0)203 5565201
Friday, March 30, 2012
UK, Warrington: March 29 - July 7, 2012: International Women
Warrington Museum and Art Gallery presents
International Women
Catalina Estrada, Elizabeth Mcgrath, Faith 47, Hera, Holly Thoburn, Kukula, Mel Kadel, Miss Van, Pam Glew, Sarah Joncas, Stella Im Hultberg, Swoon, Tara Mcpherson and Xue Wang.
Back to Brick by Mel Kadel
Sweet Mary of Silence by Faith 47
Furie by Pam Glew
Mascaras by Miss Van
Magdalena by Sarah Joncas
Monday, February 20, 2012
UK, London: Deadline Feb 21: Graffiti artists wanted for popup gallery
[Sorry for the late notice, they sent this on Saturday for a Tuesday deadline.]
Looking for Street / Urban / Graffiti artists
Somewhereto_ have got Graffik Gallery in Portobello road in Nottinghill for a week in April and have asked us to curate the show.
We need to see examples of your work,
Send JPGs to popupbrighton@gmail.com with the
subject: 'street art'
DEADLINE TUESDAY 21st FEBRUARY
Website // http://www.popupbrighton.com
Twitter // @popupbrighton
Facebook/popupbrighton
Looking for Street / Urban / Graffiti artists
Somewhereto_ have got Graffik Gallery in Portobello road in Nottinghill for a week in April and have asked us to curate the show.
We need to see examples of your work,
Send JPGs to popupbrighton@gmail.com with the
subject: 'street art'
DEADLINE TUESDAY 21st FEBRUARY
Website // http://www.popupbrighton.com
Twitter // @popupbrighton
Facebook/popupbrighton
Monday, January 30, 2012
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
UK, London: Dec. 1-4, 2011: XENZ: Cloud Cuckoo Land
XENZ presents:
Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Solo Show
London December 1-4, 2011
PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday December 1 / 18:00-22:00. After Party: 22:30-01:00 (no entry after 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 some interesting twists.
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."
Xenz's last solo show, Pecking Disorder was at Lazarides in Newcastle in March, 2011.
Cloud Cuckoo land opens with a private view on
Thursday December 1 / 18:00-22:00
It opens to the general public Friday, December 2 to Sunday, December 4 / 12:00-18:00.
Location:
Blackall Studios
73 Leonard Street
Shoreditch, London
EC2A 4QS
UK
map and contact for gallery: http://www.blackallstudios.com/?page=5
More info available from Xenz:
Monday, November 14, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
UK, London: November 4 - 6, 2011: Heaven & Earth
Acclaimed British surrealist graffiti artist Sickboy returns this November with his second major London solo show:
Heaven & Earth
A celebration of earthly sins and heavenly fantasies, with collaborations from some of the biggest names in the global scene, Heaven & Earth sees Sickboy figuratively fall from grace into one of his own worlds, calling upon 12 art figureheads to plunge into the depths of darkest conscious.
Those familiar with Sickboy's prolific street work such as the iconic 'Temple' (sprayed in the McDonalds palette on walls and wheelie bins worldwide) will witness the deeper development of the artist's visual vocabulary with his new body of work. Inspired by semiotics and symbolism, Renaissance paintings and the surreal landscape workings of artists like Hieronymus Bosch, Sickboy confesses all in this show, with meticulously-detailed paintings containing deeply personal narratives alongside his surrealist depictions of the world.
The artist also presents four major installations which include a walk-in confessional booth (with a resident pastor who will be appearing at various service times throughout the opening), and an installation which sees a who's who of eminent artists joining Sickboy on his cathartic journey including: D*Face, Eine, Anthony Lister, Paul Insect, Vhils, Conor Harrington, Xenz, Word to Mother, Will Barras, Eelus, Mudwig and Hush – all of whom feature in a special collaborative element of the show.
The art exorcism doesn't just end there. After years of brainwashing the public with his temple and slogans such as 'Save the Youth', Sickboy is expanding his ethos of 'art for the people' and inviting the global public to become part of his show by submitting their anonymous confessions to him, which will become one of the main installations, entitled CONFESS.
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL.
Private view Thursday 3rd November 18:00-22:00
Open to the public Friday 4th November - Sunday 6th November 12:00-19:00
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
UK, England, Warrington: September 24 to October 29, 2011: GOSSIP WELL TOLD
GOSSIP WELL TOLD....THE GOSSIP SPREADS
After the successful opening of GOSSIP WELL TOLD in London this past July, the exhibition has been invited to take over a section of the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery as part of the first Warrington Contemporary Art Festival this September. The Warrington Museum and Art Gallery’s first ever contemporary arts festival this month celebrates emerging and acclaimed artists and performers from September 24 to October 29, 2011.
Having been presented with the honour of bringing this exhibition to a Museum setting, ‘Gossip Well Told’ has taken the opportunity to expand on its roster to include such artists as Berliner Jaybo, Australias Anthony Lister & London’s finest D*FACE.
GOSSIP WELL TOLD, Curated by Frankie Shea & Tina Ziegler
Exhibiting Artists: Alex Fakso, Anthony Lister, Ben Eine, Case, Cheryl Dunn, Dabs & Myla, D*FACE, Herakut, Faith47, How & Nosm, Jaybo, Kaws, Luke Chueh, Phil Frost, Swoon
Gossip Well Told exhibits new and original artworks and installations by internationally recognised artists from a movement spawned through word of mouth, a movement that brought colour to the streets of the world’s most exciting cities and spread like wildfire via the internet. This is a scene fuelled by the artists and lovers of the art itself. It has received little support from the conventional British art establishments and is only now beginning to receive the wider attention and credit it deserves in the UK with Warrington Museum making the first big step by inviting these artists to fill its white walls. An innovating, DIY mentality of not waiting to be invited is the philosophy that has built the scene and made it what it is today. GOSSIP WELL TOLD brings to Warrington the most progressive, talked-about work on the art wires right now and will offer a taste of what can be expected at this year’s 2011 edition of Moniker Art Fair.
September 24th to October 29th 2011
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Cultural Quarter. Museum Street
Warrington, WA1 1JB
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