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London: LUDO – Metamorphosis

September 18, 2011 butterfly

French artist LUDO opened his first London solo show at High Roller Society entitled Metamorphosis. The exhibition is two folds, featuring on one side a selection of drawings on paper, and on the other side an installation room. Visitors entering the installation are faced with mad professors in latex gloves and incubation boxes containing mutated insect sculptures made of polyamide.

The opening saw the release of a hand-pulled screenprint named e-Lepidoptera, as well as limited edition book.

Full set of pics HERE

Ludo – Metamorphosis
High Roller Society
10 Sept – 7 Oct 2011

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New York: Garage Magazine Launch

September 13, 2011 butterfly

When art meets fashion…
To celebrate the first issue of Garage Magazine by Dasha Zhukova, a special ice cream van has been touring the Meatpacking district and NY Fashion shows.

One of the three magazine covers features a strategically placed butterfly tattoo by artist Damien Hirst, shot by Hedi Slimane.

The Garage van is providing ice creams, coffee as well as temporary tattoos featuring designs by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.

London, Shows

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

Copenhagen, Street

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