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London: Antony Micallef – Happy Deep Inside My Heart

September 12, 2011 butterfly

As featured on Juxtapoz

Antony Micallef returns to Lazarides Rathbone for a UK solo show entitled Happy Deep Inside My Heart.

Micallef says, “My work is like a Disney film that slowly turns into violent pornography, but you don’t really see where the change happens. It’s an ambush to the senses to capture an audience. I want to amalgamate and infuse the figures into a synthetic world. The twisted figures resembling experiments gone wrong from a science lab have somehow walked into our commercials, our glossy magazines; a cocktail of chromatic perversion. The aim is to use color as a decoy to invite the viewer in, to ambush their senses, to give that inner world a sugar-coated, cracked-sweet veneer, hiding the distortion and decay.”

Here are some pics from the opening

View the entire set here

Antony Micallef
Happy Deep Inside My Heart
Through October 22, 2011

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London: VNA 16 Launch Party

September 10, 2011 butterfly

Thursday 8th September saw the launch of the eagerly awaited issue 16 of Very Nearly Almost magazine. The new issue features Invader, Chu, Dead Sea Mob, Kid Zoom, Will Barras, as well as street photos from different cities. I was happy to contribute and discover interviews from the different artists.

This time, a special VNA 16 limited edition with a screenprinted cover has been signed by Invader. The pack also contains a series of VNA/Invader stickers, within a shiny silver screenprinted enveloppe. No wonder a growing crowd started to queue from the early afternoon at Pictures on Walls to get one of the 80 from the special edition made available for the launch party.

Here are some pics from the release party:

http://verynearlyalmost.com

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Da Mental Vaporz at Galore Festival 2011

September 5, 2011 butterfly 1 Comment

The French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz painted this massive mural for the Galore Festival in Copenhagen. Featuring Bom.k, Blo, Brusk, Dran, Gris, Jaw, Kan and Sowat.

The mural is a satyrical reference to unscrupulous people who are willing to deface street art walls for profit. The DMV also incorporated a tribute to Kase 2 (RIP), as well as Copenhagen landmarks, including the infamous Christiania market, where you can find anything.

Some action shots below. Click on an image to enlarge

     Da Mental Vaporz @ Galore DK

damentalvaporz.com
Galore Festival 2011

Copenhagen, Street

Copenhagen (DK): Galore Festival 2011

September 3, 2011 butterfly

Situated around the cultural area of Valby in Copenhagen, aka Toftegårds Plads and their surrounding culture houses KraftWerket and Valby Culture Centre, the Galore Festival is an uncensored, raw and wild exhibition celebrating several forms of art, from classic art, performance, live painting to sound installations and street art.

Local graffiti artists and performance artists

Roa (Belgium)

Part of the festival saw a 100 meters wall battle between international graffiti artists, which will be up for four months, featuring Da Mental Vaporz (FR), Dreyk The Pirate (GR), Erosie (NL), Graphic Surgery (NL), Grito (ES), Lints (DK), Ripo (US), Scie (IR).

Da Mental Vaporz (France) – Blo, Bom.k, Brusk, Dran, Gris, Jaw, Kan, Sowat

Dreyk The Pirate (Greece)

Erosie / Graphic Surgery (Netherlands)

Grito (Spain)

Lints (Denmark)

Ripo (USA)

Scie (Ireland)

More pics HERE

or info at Galore Festival

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Street Summer on UK TV

August 15, 2011 butterfly 1 Comment

The UK Broadcast Channel 4 has partnered with many streets artists including Banksy for a Street Summer galore.

This week-end featured the world premiere of the Oscar nominated movie Exit Through the Gift Shop, as well as a serie of documentaries.

One not to miss, Graffiti Wars examines the creative tensions and conflicts within street art and graffiti. It’s the story of the ongoing Banksy vs. Robbo battle that started out in Camden Regent Canal.