October 31, 2011

Alex Pardee "Kool Irony" Print


Alex Pardee
"Kool Irony"
11 x 14 inches
edition of 35, hand signed and numbered
$35.00

Available online here

Incase x BEAMS Pack



Incase announces its latest collaboration with Tokyo’s leading purveyor of global fashion and lifestyle, BEAMS. Incorporating the visionary retailer’s discriminating style into a signature Incase design, the BEAMS Pack has been created in two limited editions Gray Canvas and Indigo Denim available exclusively at goincase.com, BEAMS Online Shop and BEAMS shops in Japan and Hong Kong.

Infusing BEAMS’ fashion-forward sensibilities with Incase’s signature bag construction, the BEAMS Pack brings an elevated sophistication to a functional design.


The Incase x BEAMS Pack is available now through goincase.com (canvas edition only), BEAMS Online Shop and will be in BEAMS shops November 15.

Lodown Magazine at Motto Berlin


LODOWN MAGAZINE
SPEED ISSUE 003

Lodown Annual Art Edition 003 - 2011

OFFICIAL RELEASE EVENT
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1st
Start 7pm

Featuring: Carsten Nicolai, Osang Gwon, Hunter Longe, Miya Ando, Samir Mougas, Arcangelo Sassolino, Jean Tinguely, Michael Sailstorfer, Bruno Rousseaud, Tim Taylor, Jane Stockdale, Takehito Koganezawa and Rammellzee and more you never dared to ask about Speed.

We have global time, belonging to the multimedia, to cyberspace, increasingly dominating the local time-frame of our cities, our neighborhoods. Nothing is ever obtained without a loss of something else. What will be gained from electronic information and electronic communication will necessarily result in a loss somewhere else. If we are not aware of this loss, and do not account for it, our gain will be of no value. This is the lesson to be had from the previous development of transport technologies. The realization of high velocity railway service has been possible only because engineers of the 19th century had invented the block system, that is a method to regulate traffic so that trains are speeded up without risk of railway catastrophes. But so far, traffic control engineering on the information (super)highways is conspicuous by its absence.

-Paul Virillo



People become avatars, usernames, trolls flitting in and out of various environments at a speed so fast that the world is transformed, made into the speed of light. It doesn't matter how fast you run, whether or not you catch the first train or the last, or if you make it from here to point X in 20 minutes or less because that which is happening in worlds we cannot see; worlds where tiny information packets travel along encoded passageways, certain intelligence finds its way to high security databases, and encrypted messages carry vital details on just how the next transaction should take place... is where all the things that run this planet are truly happening... so for whatever it's worth, go with godspeed.

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Motto Berlin
Skalitzer str. 68
10997 Berlin
U1 Schlesisches Tor

Faile Mural at Houston & Bowery




Photos by Luna Park

Carl Partridge "Relics" solo exhibition at Beach London


Carl Partridge
Relics

Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michaelangelo starred in a comic in 1984. A cartoon followed in 1987 and films in the 1990's. They always ate Pizza.

On the 3rd of November Carl Partridge will hold his first Solo Exhibition here at Beach London, in Cheshire Street.

A recent Illustration MA Graduate from Central Saint Martins College, summer 2011. Interests include Objects & Ephemera, The 1950's & 80's, Forgotten Formats, and the Handmade. The work has a collaged based tactile aesthetic, collating a variety of materials. Relying on an active imagination, Carl often pursues subjects deliberately as an outsider. There’s a strong nostalgic Americana theme to the work, focusing on contemporary oddities, objects, and neglected relics.

This Exhibition will explore the importance of objects and collections. Asking questions of the viewer such as how and why is something suddenly considered of real worth? And when does an object become shelf worthy?

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Beach London
20 Cheshire Street,
Off Brick Lane, Shoreditch, London

Kelsey Brookes "Desires of the Soul" at The Outsiders London


Kelsey Brookes
Desires of the Soul

Exhibition dates: 4th - 26th November 2011
Private View: Thursday 3rd October 6 – 9pm

‘Desires of the Soul’ is his first full UK solo show. A life-sized skeleton inspired by Tibetan art holds up a black cobra and an hour glass while neon colours starburst in the background. Exaggerated animals take to an iridescent sea aboard a full-to- bursting ark. Hermaphrodite chimerae beckon the viewer into their own private realms on the furthest reaches of perception. The art is impulsive, extravagant, poetic and spontaneous, an echo of the spirit.


Kelsey’s paintings mix primal imagery and potent signifiers with vivid, kaleidoscopic abstractions. In keeping with the finest examples of psychedelic expression Kelsey’s artworks are neither a bad trip nor a fluffy love-in, but a dramatic expression of our impulses that supersedes conventional western mores. Enhanced sensation and the gamut of human experience are represented through an ancient concept: the ‘chimera’, an amalgamation of different beasts and human forms. Primitive eastern devotional and religious art, spirituality, sexuality, and the ongoing conflict between the reptilian and more evolved aspects of the human mind: these are just a few of the aspects given birth, screaming celestial harmonies, onto the canvas.

“This is the most densely painted work I have made yet,” says Kelsey. “There’s more focus on implied motion, background colours and intricate details – they’re more complete paintings in a number of ways.”


A former scientist, willpower and self-mastery influence Kelsey’s work as much as mind expansion and sensation. “The complex backgrounds are made using lots of painter’s tape and time. The technique I use is dedication, discipline, and repetition.”
An unusual inspiration for ‘Desires of the Soul’ is Kelsey’s migrane headaches. The powerful affliction is often associated with not only visual hallucinations but also perceived smells and other ‘synaesthetic’ experiences (the interpretation of one sense as another, for instance ‘hearing’ colours). “I get the migranes a couple of times a year,” he says. “Just before the headache sets in I get thirty minutes of free psychedelic imagery, which I thoroughly mined for this show. The migranes especially influenced the decorative parts of the work. The lines and the geometric patterns come directly from my hallucinogenic experiences just before the headache.”


Kelsey says that psychedelic drugs and other hallucinatory experiences “were an introduction to seeing the world from a different perspective. Not any particular perspective, just the knowledge that there were many different ways of understanding. In that sense the psychedelic experience plays a major role in my creative thought process. The imagery classically used to translate that mental state, at least in the west, appeals to me but also can easily be dismiss as frivolous. I’m attempting to address and translate that work through my own experience.”

8 Greek Street, Soho, W1D 4DG
London, UK

Collin van der Sluijs "Dirty Diaries" at Ruttkowski68


Collin van der Sluijs
Dirty Diaries

Opening November 4, 8pm

From the 4th until the 27th of November, the painter Collin van der Sluijs (NL) is showing new canvases and large scale drawings. The opening takes place on the 4th of November at 8pm.

Dirty Diaries is a series of work based upon personal experiences of van der Sluijs with life and death in 2010 and 2011, the dirty way death can grab someone you love, and the great joy of receiving new life. These emotions reflect the body of paintings and drawings that are presented at Ruttkowski68.

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Ruttkowski68
Bismarckstrasse 68
50672 Köln

Sickboy "Heaven & Earth" solo show at Dray Walk in London



Sickboy
Heaven & Earth

Private view: Thursday 3rd November 6-10pm
Public view: Friday 4th–6th November 12-7pm

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.


A fourth surprise installation will be unveiled on the opening night, which brings the artist’s exterior work into an exhibition environment.

Photos by Viktor Vauthier

Dray Walk Gallery
91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

Walton Ford at Paul Kasmin Gallery


Walton Ford

I don't like to look at him, Jack. It makes me think of that awful day on the island.


November 3 – December 23, 2011
Private View: November 3, 6-8pm

Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of nine new, large-scale watercolor paintings by Walton Ford, on view for the first time, at 293 Tenth Avenue. The most monumental watercolors that Ford has painted to date, three of the works measure approximately 9 x 12 feet on a single sheet of paper.

These nine paintings are grouped into two series of work: one comprising three portraits of King Kong; and the other six meditations on a passage from the memoirs of the ornithologist John James Audubon (1785- 1851). Both series were painted in 2011, and are consistent with Ford’s practice of expanding the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting.


The first series, presenting three huge portraits of King Kong, is based on the 1933 movie co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. As Ford explains, “The depression era Kong was misshapen, not modeled on any living ape. He has an odd, ugly, shifting charisma like Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, or Bogart. Naturally, his woman screamed in terror. She continued screaming throughout their time together. The grief of the original Kong is the grief of the unloved, and like Humbert Humbert or Frankenstein, the grief of the unlovable. In 1933, Fay Wray says words that would break any suitor's heart. She shrinks from the chained Kong and tells her human lover, ‘I don't like to look at him...’ Since Kong is a Hollywood tough guy, he covers up his heartbreak with violence and anger. These paintings are about Kong's heartbreak. I wanted to reveal the monster's grief, his enormous sadness, the sorrow that the original Kong kept hidden from view.”


Ford’s second series, which depicts a monkey capturing and strangling a parrot, was inspired by an unsettling passage from Audobon’s memoirs. Describing a childhood memory, Audobon writes: “…My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species. One morning, while the servants were engaged in arranging the room I was in, ‘Pretty Polly’ was asking for her breakfast as usual, ‘Du pain au lait pour le perroquet Mignonne,’ the man of the woods probably thought the bird presuming upon his rights in the scale of nature; be this as it may, he certainly showed his supremacy in strength over the denizen of the air, for, walking deliberately and uprightly toward the poor bird, he at once killed it, with unnatural composure. The sensations of my infant heart at this cruel sight were agony to me. I prayed the servant to beat the monkey, but he, who for some reason preferred the monkey to the parrot, refused. I uttered long and piercing cries, my mother rushed into the room, I was tranquillized, the monkey was forever afterward chained, and Mignonne buried with all the pomp of a cherished lost one. This made, as I have said, a very deep impression on my youthful mind.”


Life-sized and impeccably detailed, Ford’s watercolors connote an old-master style, reminiscent of nineteenth-century artists’ portrayals of nature and animals. With exceptional accuracy, the paintings convey the artist’s art-historical and scientific knowledge, while also suggesting analogies between the past and the present day. They illuminate the strange, savage moments that occur at the intersection of human culture and the natural world. While human figures rarely appear in Ford’s paintings, their presence is always implied. Although monkeys, parrots and King Kong are the protagonists of the paintings, they exist only in the context of stories created and controlled by human beings.

Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue
511 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Neuzz "Ellos vendrán esta noche" at Centro Cultural Border


Neuzz
Ellos vendrán esta noche


Opening Wednesday, November 2, 9pm

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Centro Cultural Border
Zacatecas 43, colonia Roma norte, C.P.06700
Mexico City, Mexico

Claire Duport "Vodun" Book launch at Spazio XYZ


Vodun
by Claire Duport


October 31, 2011 at 6pm

Automatic Books is pleased to announce the release of a new book, Vodun by French artist Claire Duport, which explores the beliefs and practices that govern the complex universe of the Voodoo religion. A public presentation of the book, including an exhibition of the original artworks (both on display and for sale at Spazio XYZ , Treviso - Italy, at the presence of the artist), will take place on October 31 2011 from 6pm. Drinks and DJ set will follow.

Vodun is a 24 pages black and white book comprising the 10 drawings and poems that French artist Claire Duport expressly created for Automatic Books. The book explores the universe of Voodoo, without pretending to create a scientific inventory of facts and figures, aiming at offering a personal and intimate interpretation of nowadays' fears instead. ''I've always been very attracted by mysticism'', Claire Duport says, ''To understand how human beings try to give an answer to existential questions, seeking refuge into mystic and religious experiences. It reflects the pains and fears of contemporary culture and civilization. It's fascinating to explore how religious beliefs and practices often become the powerful tools to overcome complex life issues''.



Not just a matter of cult, Voodoo has more an anthropological than a religious value to it that regards its specific cultural function within social organizations. Considered an art that heals, Voodoo plays a central role in everyday life, by questioning and exploring the entire mankind’s existence.

The book, printed in a risographed and numbered edition limited to 100 copies, is the collection of Claire Duport's personal exploration of intimate Voodoo rituals. Each drawing is a symbolic pictorial interpretation of Voodoo fetishes, the sacred gates between the visible world of humans and the invisible world of spirits. As the place where the terrestrial and spiritual forces gather, the empowering bodies and figures of Claire Duport's drawings and poems are the metaphoric representation of our contemporary fears.

Spazio XYZ
Via Inferiore, 31
31100 Treviso, Italia

SUPRA Presents The Matt Mumford Halloween Vaider Low



This Halloween, SUPRA is releasing a Matt Mumford Vaider Low in commemoration of the dark holiday that is All Hollow’s Eve. The diabolical black suede upper is accentuated with pumpkin orange highlights:

· Orange crown applique.
· Spider web sock liner graphic that echoes Mumford’s elbow tattoo.
· Orange visa terry lining.
· Custom orange/black “Mumford” heel tab branding.
· Orange sole and white foxing with black pinstripes.

October 30, 2011

TYKE WITNES, DABS, & MYLA "Keep it One Hundred" LRG Artist Driven





D*Face "Burn Brighter" solo show at Metro Gallery




D*Face
Burn Brighter


November 2nd - November 13, 2011.
Opening Wednesday, November 2, 6:30-8:30pm

For the first time in Australia the phenomenal and notorious D*Face will headline a solo show at Metro Gallery Melbourne from November 2. Often sited as a challenger to Banksy’s crown as the King of Street Art, and as one of the most exciting and prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation, this is Australia’s only chance to see one of the original and best in person this year.



The exhibition will showcase the evolution of the D*Face ‘flutterdies’ and ‘splutterflies’, which were first introduced into his repertoire at his LA show in April. The concept will be further expanded into a full body of works for Metro Gallery, with the show also including amazing reproductions of the ‘futterdies’ and ‘splutterflies’ as photographic prints onto various mediums.



D* Face has shown across the world in locations including London, Stockholm, Barcelona, New York, Hamburg, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Taipei and has a huge range of fans including Christina Aguilera. Past works also include his ‘’collaboration’’ with H.R.H Queen Elizabeth II on a series of bank notes that were put into circulation for an unsuspecting public to notice in their change. Then, to commemorate the instatement of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican ‘’commissioned’’ D*Face to paint a portrait. The piece was shown for the first time at the Outside Institute in May 2005, as well as on MTV Rome, to critical acclaim.

Metro Gallery
1214 High Street,
Armadale, Victoria
3143 Australia

October 29, 2011

Monster Show Six Group Show at Domy Books - Austin


Domy Books is pleased to present

Monster Show Six

Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Domy Books - Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE

Exhibition runs October 29–December 8, 2011

AUGOR "Terrors of Crenshaw" exhibition at Ironlak Los Angeles


AUGOR
Terrors of Crenshaw

This Halloween weekend begins the “Terrors of Crenshaw” art show presented by LRG artist driven member Augor. The show is presented at the Ironlak shop in Los Angeles from Saturday, October 29 – Tuesday, November 29.


The work in Terrors is my first body of work that is all monochrome (greyscale). Being a halloween show, the works are dark and have a suggestive almost sexual nature in them. Not intending to spook a crowd, rather to convey my darkest thoughts, fantasies, and vices as if they were entities in themselves The show’s inspiration came from countless old black and white noir films, and works from past entertainers like Oliver Scott.”

Check out the interview with Augor at PaperCtz Blog

Ironlak Los Angeles
5125 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90027

October 28, 2011

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