Kid Acne "Rhythm Is A Dancer" Exhibition at Stolenspace Gallery

Kid Acne

Rhythm Is A Dancer

01.04.11 - 24.04.11

“I’M AS SERIOUS AS CANCER WHEN I SAY RHYTHM IS A DANCER” TURBO. B (SNAP 1992)

StolenSpace proudly presents a new body of work from renowned UK street artist Kid Acne. This exhibition explores the relationship between graffiti and smoking by way of introducing us to a new set of characters known as 'Art Fags' – a play on words and inspired by the tongue-in-cheek response to the expression 'Art Fag' – a term adopted by the more fundamentalist graffiti writers to describe Street Artists, criticizing them for their less hardcore and arguably more contrived contribution to the urban landscape. Both smoking and graffiti can be seen as rebellious, cool and particularly appealing to teenagers. Though through repetition they can both equally become a compulsion, cause serious problems in our adult life and are hard to quit “filthy habits”

Thursday 31st March, 6-9pm

StolenSpace
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
United Kingdom

Alex Fakso - FAST OR DIE - at Montana Gallery Barcelona

Alex Fakso - FAST OR DIE -
Presentation Thursday, March 31st at 7:30PM.

Fast or Die is Alex Fakso's new photographic project, which comes to life after four years of travelling around the world, from London to the US, and as far as Russia and Japan. Metropolitan narratives immortalized in 148 shots: portraits of people running, taking the subway, sleeping on docks, sneaking into tunnels.



Fakso follows his subjects taking part in the action, moving along with them, following them until he manages to document instants and moments of their days, thus creating snapshots that contain stories, details and sensations. This time Fakso expands his view beyond graffiti and tracks a robust framework of the metropolitan scenario embracing the people who inhabit it.


Images of ordinary people, common people plunged into the underground chaos: Fast or Die is a powerful photo strip describing the world through the subways. A report of the contemporary underground.

Montana Gallery
c/Comerç 6,
08003 Barcelona, Spain.

TOTHOLZ / DEADWOOD Group exhibition curated by TILL GERHARD at LOYAL

TOTHOLZ / DEADWOOD
Group exhibition curated by TILL GERHARD
April 1 - May 21, 2011

Patrick Farzar, Olaf Fippinger, Till Gerhard, Henning Kles, Tilman Knop, Jan Köchermann, Stefan Marx, Heiko Müller, Thorsten Passfeld, Dennis Scholl, Jörn Stahlschmidt, Jürgen von Dückerhoff, plus The Fairy Trail

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY APRIL 1, 6-9 pm

The pine forest is located at the highest point of the Black Forest, and at that time in that area there was no village in a two hour radius, not even a hut, because superstitious people thought it was unsafe there. They also claimed that, so tall and glorious were the pine trees there, that often when the wood-cutters worked there, the trees fell over so quickly that they knocked the men over and hurt or even killed them. And that one must use even the most beautiful trees from that pine forest only for firewood, because the boat builders never took a piece of that pine wood, not even for a raft, for the story goes that "man and wood crash when pine meets water". And so it was, that in the pine forest the trees were so thick and so high that during the day it was like night, and he felt it was very scary there, for he heard no voice, no steps except his own, no ax, even the birds seemed to avoid the dense pine night.

When the story came out, this Michel was nowhere to be found, but he is not dead. For a hundred years, his ghost has run through the forest, and it is said that he already had a lot of help to be rich, but at the expense of his poor soul, and I will not say more. But this much is certain, that he is still in the pine forest on those stormy nights seeking out the most beautiful pine trees that one should not cut.

Emotionally excessive love of order and attention to details of a so called "beauty" also provided for the ever and ever draining of living things. There it lay on the ground. Broken into small and micro parts, crumbled beyond recognition. A lightless soul coal pile. "This," he replied, and handed him out of a drawer, "a heart of stone".

But no sooner had he said this, when Glass-man grew and swelled and was high and wide, and his eyes should were as big as soup plates, and his mouth was like a heated oven, and flames flashed out of it. He threw himself on his knees, and his heart of stone did not protected him, not from his limbs trembling like an aspen. With vulture talons the Forest Spirit grabbed him by the neck, swung him like a whirlwind of dry leaves, and threw him to the ground so that it cracked all his ribs! "Earth worm," he shouted in a voice that rolled like thunder, "I could crush you if I wanted, for you have sinned against the Lord of the forest. But for this dead woman's sake, she who has fed and watered me, I'll give you eight days grace period. If you have not turned for the better, I will come and crush your bones, and you will go down in your sins."

LOYAL
Saltimporten
Hullkajen
211 20 Malmö
Sweden (Map)

Merijn Hos (BeFree) Exhibition at K+K Gallery

MERIJN HOS

31.03-17.04.11 /OPENING 31.03 +dj.
THUR.FRI. 17:00 > 20:00 / SAT. 15:00 > 18:00
OR BY APPOINTMENT

Merijn Hos is een kunstenaar-illustrator uit Utrecht, Nederland die zijn tijd verdeelt tussen eigen projecten, tentoonstellingen en illustratie. Voor zijn solo project bij K+K toont hij een selectie van oud en nieuw werk.


Merijn Hos est un artiste-illustrateur d’Utrecht, Pays-Bas, qui partage son temps entre ses propres projets, des expositions et de l’illustration. Pour son expo solo chez K+K, il montre une sélection d’anciennes et de nouvelles oeuvres.

K+K Gallery
Ursulinestreet 5
Brussels, Belgium

Toykyo "Mickey Duck" by HuskMitNavn

MICKEY DUCK PURPLE

by HuskMitNavn

Buy it here

New colors, Only 12 made. All handmade in Belgium.

This will be the last Micky Duck sculptures ever made.

BLU

Blu animations and other videos here.

Tessar Lo "MAPS" solo exhibition at Show & Tell Gallery

Tessar Lo
MAPS

April 1st - May 1st 2011

Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to welcome Tessar Lo to his second solo exhibition with the gallery titled MAPS. His latest paintings dig deeper in to the concept that habitual images play an important role in our physical and subconcious growth. The narrative in these works is universal, telling stories that speak of the past while presenting hope towards the future; They are windows of anticipation, maps which lead us forward. Tessar Lo’s paintings create a feeling of wonder, (dis)comfort, and encouragment, all the while embracing imagination.

Opening Reception: Friday April 1st, 7 - 11pm

Show & Tell Gallery
1161 Dundas St. West
Toronto,

ON M6J 1X3
Canada

Andrew Hem "Building From The Ground Up" Exhibition at Show & Tell Gallery

Andrew Hem
Building From The Ground Up

April 1st - May 1st 2011

Running simultaneously in our project gallery, a solo exhibition from Andrew Hem titled "Building From The Ground Up". This will mark Andrew's first exhibition in Canada. For this occasion Show & Tell Gallery will be releasing a very limited print edition from Andrew. Andrew Hem is a Cambodian-American artist and award-winning illustrator currently based in Los Angeles. In 2006, he graduated from Art Center College of Design. His paintings portray somber, stylized figures with references to his native heritage, influenced by American popular culture.

Opening Reception: Friday April 1st, 7 - 11pm

Show & Tell Gallery
1161 Dundas St. West
Toronto,

ON M6J 1X3
Canada

The Friends of Tony Romanoff: Lucas Price at Pure Evil Gallery

The Friends of Tony Romanoff

31st March - 13th April

PV 31st March 6 - 9 pm

Live from the teenage reliquary, the last golden archipelago of memory feats, the SAW archive in association with The Friends of Tony Romanoff presents a group show curated by Lucas Price.

Dalston as remembered by a dead academic, Whitechapel market pushed into a toilet cubicle of the Hacienda circa 1989, a high street photocopy shop with a walk through tour guided by Buckminster Fuller, the rose as a potential psychedelic catalyst. All of the works presented, and indeed the entire SAW archive, concern themselves with the time leading up to the death of Ghostly Cassette and the threshholding of imagery therein.

Featuring selected photos, reproductions and installed re stagings of events, you are invited to come up with your own version of how this might have gone down.

Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street
London, UK

ELTONO Paintings in China

ELTONO

Carhartt Brand Book #5

SPRING / SUMMER 2011

CARHARTT BRANDBOOK #5

The latest edition features the Spring/Summer 2011 collection in focus, presents the latest news, stories behind the brand and current projects. It includes an editorial photo shoot with Jamie xx from the British band The xx, followed by an extended interview. A large retrospective honours all artists who have participated in our illus- tration campaigns until today. The exclusive photo shoot by Shauna T. from P.A.M. highlights our Women Spring/Summer collection. Furthermore you will find interviews with Grotesk, Raphael Zarka and the architects Fred Naulin and Marianne Le Ster.

Carhartt Brandbook #5 is available in stores now.

Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie "White Out" Exhibition at The Madman Void

Mark Whalen

Kill Pixie

WHITE OUT

1 – 21 april 2011

Opening April 1st, 5-8pm

In recent years, Mark Whalen has used an axonometric grid as a foundation on which to engineer paintings that are, at once, psychedelic visions of our past lives and a revelatory demonstration of what is yet to come.

This grid is central to his practice as it removes any familiar context from which we find our bearings. His works often appear bigger than us in spirit, yet through their diminutive scale and fine detail, we peer into them as miniature dioramas.



Whalen’s characters are confined within micro worlds laden with sex, religion, race, and violence. They play out scenes that titillate and torture with reckless abandon. At times there is no distinction between floor, ceiling and wall – each being congruent with activity and without gravitational pull. These worlds are, quite literally, on the brink of being turned upside down.


That is not to say Whalen doesn’t impart his distinctive humour throughout his artworks. It is not all doom and gloom, fantasy and fanfare. Whalen revels in the absurd and his paintings and sculptures are as much whimsical as they are worldly, and often tongue in cheek. His palette alone delivers a wry comment on the very nature of society’s willingness to categorise each other; the great divide of girl and boy, pink and blue.


Now living and working in Los Angeles, Whalen’s practice is a far cry from his early years in Sydney where he was recognised for his large-scale graffiti works. Yet his indomitable spirit of creativity and resistance fractures and realigns old divides between street and gallery, and reinterprets the universal human struggle for freedom and control in a world that he sees as being bent on self-destruction. Since 2006, Whalen’s work has been shown in a constant stream of exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, and Australia.

Click here for catalogue


The Madman Void
1-35 Wellington Street
Collingwood, Victoria

Australia

Black Art Projects

MIXED MEDIA COLLECTIVE x GKO gallery

Last February, the guys from MIXED MEDIA (ARYZ - GRITO - KIKX - POSEYDON - ROSTRO - RGTD) presented a series of prints in the GKO gallery in the beautiful city of Tolosa (Basque Country). Here it is a short documentary by German Rigol.

Music by Laura Llopart. Edit & Animation by Scar Studio.
Supported by MONTANA COLORS and HEROKID

Buff Monster "10 Years" New Silkscreened Print

Buff Monster new print!

“10 Years” is 5 colors on 18x24”

rag paper and is signed and numbered out of 100.

available here.

Patrick Martinez “Hustlemania” Opening Night Video x Known Gallery

Sixpack France x Brendan Monroe “Limbic Place” Series

Brendan Monroe
Limbic Place

Sixpack France is glad to announce the release of its brand new fanzine, featuring the american artist Brendan Monroe. This California native has built his visual universes at the edge of reality and imagination, in which emotions converse with the mysterious forces of Nature.




Mental landscapes, synaesthetic fulguration, one-way intros- pection... Limbic Place is an invitation to an initiatory journey to the roots of the human soul.

Published by Sixpack France, Limbic Place is now available on our online shop.


Brendan Monroe

«I tend to work intuitively and instinctively. I like to create some kind of my own world within my work where there can be a language of familiar characters and places. My hope is that the images and sculptures can all communicate with each other.The place I’m constructing is a bit like an inner mind or inner self. It’s meant to be a vast infinite space that anything can occur in, especially repetitions and reactions to real world experiences. I go about this by reflecting my own interests lod- ged somewhere in science, biology and psychology.This has to deal with a question I have in my mind about existence.What it means to be human; our history, our chemical makeup, who we are in our lives and where we exist in the perspective of space and time.»

Brendan Monroe is represented by Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie L.J. in Paris. He is a California artist currently living and working in Stockholm.

Three tee shirts have also been created to celebrate this event, now availables on our online shop.

www.sixpack.fr

McBess "Gut Grinder" Exhibition at Rotofugi Gallery

Gut Grinder
New Works by McBess

March 25-April 17, 2011
Opening Reception & Signing
Friday, March 25, 2011, 7-10PM
McBess will be in attendance and signing 7-8PM

McBess (Matthieu Bessudo), born July 5, 1984, is a French illustrator living in London. His style is a mix of influences such as Fleischer Studios' old cartoons he actualizes by using contemporary shapes, symbols and types. McBess drawings often represent himself at the center of a surrealist world filled with food and musical references, such as amps, guitars and records. He's also a musician in the band "The Dead Pirates".


Matthieu Bessudo was born in Cannes and raised in Auribeau-sur-Siagne, a small town near Cannes, in France. His mother is a primary school teacher in La Roquette-sur-Siagne and his father is a satellite designer. He quickly found interest in music, therefore studied drums for 8 years before choosing guitar as his favourite instrument. in 2002, after his A-level in the Lycee Jules Ferry, in Cannes, he attended the renowned multimedia school Supinfocom in Arles. There he studied 3D animation during 4 years, and at the same time, started developing his own illustration style, at the time more colorful and less structured. During this period, he joined several famous boards of illustration over the internet such as Eatpoo and CafeSale, and started building his reputation. The nickname McBess was given to him during those years by a classmate, to distinct him from the other Matthieu in the class. In 2006, McBess graduated from Supinfocom with the short-movie "Sigg Jones" he directed with his two friends Douglas Lassance and Jonathan Vuillemin. The short-movie tells the story of a superstar and his agent. Initially called Bob Sapp as a reference to the Ultimate Fighter, a copyright issue forced the authors to come up with a new title. Douglas Lassance came with the name "Sigg Jones" a few days before their graduation, while brushing his teeth, he later consigned. Sigg Jones quickly became a reference in 3D animation because of its contemporary design and animation, and often caused debate for its featuring of Nike and Reebok sneakers.



After graduation, the trio was signed individually as directors by The Mill, an Oscar-winning VFX company based in London. At the same time, McBess started a new series of drawing, giving life to what he describes as the "New McBess". With his illustration "My Desk", he defined the new codes of his future illustrations: A mix of influences including old cartoons such as Betty Boop and Merrie Melodies, often in an isometric view, himself being surrounded by surrealist elements, food, and cameos of his own instruments.


Since 2007, McBess has been published in several renowned magazines, such as Juxtapoz, Illustrated Ape and Hi-Fructose. He is very close to Rotopol Press in Kassel, Germany, who are exclusively printing his drawings, after organizing his first own exhibition in their shop in May 2008. He is also very close to Nobrow in London, UK. He's been part of exhibitions in London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New-York and Chicago.


McBess used to be the lead guitarist of a local band called Diztrait. They performed a gig at the MJC Ranguin in Cannes, on November 6, 2004. McBess recently teamed-up with his friend Simon Landrein at The Mill, and created the music-video "Wood (Dirty Melody)" for his own band, the Dead Pirates. The clip quickly spread over the Internet, and has been featured in Wired and the popular 3D film blog Motionographer. McBess plays a Gibson SG Standard and a Fender Stratocaster Hot Rod 62. He also possesses a Fender Jazz Bass Deluxe, and recently acquired a Danelectro Baritone Guitar, and a Gibson ES-325.

This is McBess' second exhibit at Rotofugi Gallery, following 2009's "Overdrive" exhibit (with David "Netherland" van Alphen).

Rotofugi Gallery

2780 N Lincoln Ave,

Chicago, IL 60614