Category Archives: London

Paris Opening: Mausolee with Lek x Sowat

April 23, 2012 butterfly 2 Comments

On August 12, 2010, French graffiti artists Lek and Sowat found an abandoned supermarket of 430,000sq. ft in the north of Paris. For a year, in the greatest of secrets they invited forty French graffiti artists to collaborate and create an illegal graffiti Mausoleum.

As the monument is not accessible for safety reasons, Lek and Sowat recreated a few murals and installations in an abandoned apartment to share their experience with the public .

During the two years, they discovered traces of life from squatters that left in a rush. For the exhibition, the artists brought back toys, letters and objects as a tribute to the families living in the Mausolee.

An installation made of found signage on site, staff instructions and reports reminds of the golden days of the supermarket as key role to the community.

The opening was also the occasion to celebrate the release of the book (available here) and a video retracing all the visual process of this adventure.

The stop motion video made of 8000 pictures is now visible online

More info on the project and participating artists at mausolee.net

London, Shows

London: Hypnagogia By ROA

April 20, 2012 butterfly

After portraying large scale monochrome animals in London’s city streets and on derelict buildings all over the world, Belgium artist ROA returns to London for a solo show titled ‘Hypnagogia’ at Stolenspace. The exhibition is held in two spaces, featuring installation work & originals on recycled found-objects, as well as outdoor work across east London.

The title of the show refers to the transitional state between sleeping and awake. ROA explores the ‘interstate’ with his portrayals of sleeping animals, whilst quietly around us the world awakens from a long winter, and the creatures he depicts experience a period of seasonal transition. Interaction plays also a significant part in the artworks as moving panels or drawers reveal another side of the animals, whether an half skeleton or part organ dissection.

To coincide with this show opening will also be the launch of the artist first book ‘Roa: ‘An Introduction To Animal Representation’ by Mammal Press, an hand crafted book featuring ROA’s art around the world through photographs, sketches, and reference material with 2 screen prints enclosed.

View the full set of picshere

‘Hypnagogia’ By ROA
Solo Show & Book Launch
20.04.12 – 06.05.12

Stolenspace, Truman Brewery
The Stone Masons, 17 Osborne Street London E1 6TD.

London, Street

Streets: London’s largest mural by Agents of Change

March 30, 2012 butterfly

With the sun shining and scaffolding removed, wraps have come off London’s largest graffiti mural, covering two sides of a six-storey building in King’s Cross. Members of the Agents of Change crew with London based Remi/Rough, Edinburgh’s Steve More, LX.One from Paris, LA-based Augustine Kofie created this colourful geometrical artwork using over 500 litres of spray paint.

More pics here

London, Street

London Streets: Paul Insect and Sweet Toof

March 23, 2012 butterfly

London, Shows

London Opening: Conor Harrington Dead Meat

March 4, 2012 butterfly

Irish painter Conor Harrington returns to Lazarides Rathbone in London for a solo show entitled”Dead Meat“. Making a departure from his military battles and masculine subject figures in his previous work, his new body of work revisits the 18th-Century period. From an elaborate photo-shoot involving 6 models, costumes, taxidermy and props, Harrington has recreated an 18th -Century feast, reminisicent of a last supper combining ostentatious excesses, power, decadence with crumbling beauty.

Using a clever mix of spraypaint and oil painting techniques, Conor Harrington manages to create an harmonious balance between graffiti and fine art, with a beautiful rendering of textures and his figurative subjects.