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Streets: Banksy at Bridge Farm Primary School (Bristol)

June 7, 2016 butterfly

Banksy Square (Large)

Banksy is back to his hometown in Bristol with a new piece that appeared overnight on the wall of Bridge Farm Primary School.

The work was done as a thank you gift to the children that named one of the houses after him. A few weeks ago, the school ran a competition to change house names and the school officials wrote to Banksy’s team to let him know about it.

The doodle-style mural depicts a kid rolling a burning tire next to a house and flower, like a tongue in cheek comment on the current society and riots.

The work was accompanied by a hand written letter by Banksy which reads :

“Dear Bridge Farm School, thanks for your letter and naming a house after me.
Please have a picture, and if you don’t like it, feel free to add stuff. I’m sure the teachers won’t mind. Remember, it’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission. Much love, Banksy.”

Banksy Letter (Large) Banksy Whole (Large) Banksy Signature (1) Banksy Flower (1) Banksy Tyre (Large) Banksy Oblique (Large)

Photo credit: Feralthings

London, Shows, Uncategorized

Collaboration with the Donmar Warehouse

June 2, 2016 butterfly 1 Comment

Logos

We are pleased to announce an artistic collaboration between Butterfly Art News and the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London.

Differents artists will create a visual interpretation of the current show played at the theatre. Their artwork will be on view for the duration of the show at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX.

ELEGY: Until 18 June 2016

By Nick Payne, directed by Josie Rourke, with set design by Tom Scutt, lighting by Paule Constable and sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph.

“What if every neuron in the human brain could be mapped and decoded? Every act of human behaviour catalogued and wholly understood? Elegy imagines a very-near future in which radical and unprecedented advances in medical science mean that it’s now possible to augment and extend life. Elegy explores a world in which the brain is no longer a mystery to us. But at what cost?”

Featured Artist: Hisham Echafaki

Hisham Echafaki is a London based artist with a fascination for the animal world.
His work focuses on surrealist compositions and often examines the impact of humankind on nature and issues of conservation.

**Sea Ballet** – Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Elegy 01 - 500 — **Elegy Cast: Barbara Flynn, Zoe Wanamaker and Nina Sosanya**

Elegy 03 - 500

Elaine - 500 — **Thom Petty and Elaine Cassidy**

Donmar Warehouse Theatre
41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials,
London WC2H 9LX

London, Shows

London: Yayoi Kusama @ Victoria Miro

June 1, 2016 butterfly 1 Comment

Yayoi Kusama

Victoria Miro is currently hosting a new exhibition by Yayoi Kusama. Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, the exhibition features new paintings, pumpkin sculptures, and immersive room experiences, all made especially for this presentation. This is the artist’s most extensive exhibition at the gallery to date, and it is the first time mirror rooms have gone on view in London since Kusama’s major retrospective at Tate Modern in 2012.

85 years old avant garde multidisciplinary artist Yayoi Kusama has developed a practice which resists any singular classification, though it shares affiliations with Surrealism, Minimalism, Pop art, the Zero and Nul movements, Eccentric Abstraction and Feminist art.

Her iconic dots patterns, pumpkins and mirror rooms is a lifelong exploration of the self’s relationship to the infinite cosmos. Her installations place the viewer within a universe of varying proliferating reflections.

New paintings displayed alongside these immersive rooms continue an enduring preoccupation with multiplying polka dots and dense scalloped ‘infinity net’ patterns – Kusama’s obsessive repetition of these forms on canvas, which she has described as a form of active self-obliteration, responds to hallucinations first experienced in childhood. The pumpkin, another motif that she has returned to throughout her career, is also present in the form of new mirror polished sculptures.

Yayoi Kusama

View the full set of pics here

Yayoi Kusama @ Victoria Miro
Until 30 July 2016
16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW
14 St George Street, London W1S 1FE

Shows, streets, Toulouse

Preview : ROSE BETON Festival (Toulouse)

May 29, 2016 butterfly

We are pleased to partner with the ROSE BETON Festival in Toulouse (FR), curated by la Mairie de Toulouse and the 50Cinq. The second edition of the festival is paying tribute to Graffiti, with a selection of 14 international artists.

Le Château d’Eau will be showcasing an historical flashback on the New York graffiti scene with pictures from legendary Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, while French photographer Sylvain Largot will be presenting his snapshots from the current underground scene.

Martha Cooper Martha Cooper Remix

Works by Futura , Craig Costello, Tilt, Mist and Boris Tellegen will take over the Musee des Abattoirs with impressive installations.

Boris Tellegen - Surface

In parallel, international artists will be painting a series of murals across town including Ben Eine, Miss Van, Hendrik Beikrich, Honet, Reso and Aryz.

Eine Mr Freeze - 50cinq Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB - Tracing Marocco Mulafest - Aryz Mapping the City - Somerset House

To finish this incredible line up the week end of 11 -12 June will be celebrated with the Open Summer Festival (covered) and a graffiti jam featuring 20 artists from the local and European scene that will take over the space at the 50cinq as well as walls across the pink city.

Participating artists include: Logan, Zeus, Pencil, Opium, Dizer, Katre , Aroe, Sike, Jober, Poes, Wow, Maye, Ofuske, Demon, Satone, Nes, Rokse, Orcke, Toncé, Macs, Oster, Eps, Stus, Padre, Atom, Panks, Redy, Stop, Ja, Reks, Oko, SweetUno, Seno, Mile, Corail, Momies, Zest.

Check the full programme below:

ROSE BETON – TOULOUSE (FR)
June – August 2016

Photographies – Chateau D’Eau
Martha Cooper / Henri Chalfant/ Sylvain Largot
2 June – 27 June / Opening 10 June

EPOXY Exhibition at Les Abattoirs
Futura / Craig Costello / Tilt / Mist / Boris Tellegen
15 June – 28 August / Opening 10 June

Open Summer Festival – 50cinq
11 – 12 June 2016

So do not miss the 10-11-12 June in Toulouse and stay tuned as we go behind the scenes of ROSE BETON!

London, Shows

London: Richard Prince ‘Cartoon Over Cartoon’ @ Sadie Coles

May 27, 2016 butterfly

Controversial artist known as the master of re-appropriation, Richard Prince is currently exhibiting at Sadies Cole in London. ‘Cartoon Over Cartoon‘ is a reprisal of the artist’s work with jokes and cartoons via collage and the re-contextualisation of the nude in painting. According to Prince the art of the joke is ‘in the re-telling’.

Juxtaposing humorous text and jokes with lewd cartoon nudes, Richard Prince highlights the inauthenticity of the image.

Richard Prince - Cartoon over Cartoon

“Richard collected some nudist cartoons by this guy John Dempsey. He inked jetted them up and drew a kind of hippie drawing over the collected cartoon… kind of like his hippie drawings that he did back in the late eighties. He turned the nudist cartoon into something about free love. Richard always wanted to be part of a commune, but knew that kind of utopia would never work out. At least that is what he figured. It was a good idea, the commune… but in the end…he ended up painting the commune” – Joan Katz.