Category Archives: London

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.

View the set here

Conor Harrington Dead Meat
2 March 2012 – 2 April 2012
Lazarides Gallery, 11 Rathbone Place, London

London, Shows

London: Philippe Pasqua at Opera Gallery

February 1, 2012 butterfly

Opera Gallery London is providing a complete insight into the art of self-taught French artist Philippe Pasqua through a broad collection of artworks featuring paintings, drawings and sculptures.

The show includes monumental provocative nudes, as well as sensual up close and personal portraits. There are also Pasqua’s signature large “palimpsests” – works on paper mixing silk-painting techniques, printing and painting, where the painter goes back over his own work and adds patches of colour to them or redesigns them.

Another major aspect of Pasqua’s work lies in his series of “vanities”. For years the artist has been collecting human skulls, which he covers in gold or silver leaf and decorates with butterflies with iridescent colours. Other gigantic skulls have been sculpted in Carrara marble, and tattooed with delicate motifs of imaginary flowers interleaved with mythical animals.

View more pics from the opening HERE

Philippe Pasqua
Until 15 February 2012
Opera Gallery London

London, Shows

London: Unweave the Rainbow at Scream

January 29, 2012 butterfly

Scream Gallery is currently presenting their second annual exhibition entitled “Unweave the Rainbow” with emerging artists from the USA, UK, China and Poland, each with a unique style, who have in common a psychedelic, other worldy or surreal sensibility.

Featured artists include Andrew McAttee, Cain Caser, Caroline Jane Harris, Jen Stark, Malgosia Stepnik, Scott Hove, and Ye Hongxing.

More pics from the opening HERE

Unweave the Rainbow
Until 17 March 2012
www.screamlondon.com

Art Fair, London, Shows, Street

London: Season Ticket Pop Up Fair

December 16, 2011 butterfly

This Christmas season East London heads away from the North Pole and goes underground. Set within the Old Shoreditch tube station, SEASON TICKET deliberately spills milk for the Xmas madness and spins Santa on his bobble-head.

With a hoard of amusements and occasionally dark festive fayre, SEASON TICKET presents a street art exhibition, installations, live painting, DIY art stalls and films projections. Over 18’s are welcome to a trans-gender ‘Sink The Pink’ Bad Santas’ grotty grotto. Creative cakes & mulled wine to warm the festive cobbles.

Featuring: Rowdy, Lucas Price, Monkey, Seymour & Co, Dave The Chimp, Alex Daw, Sickboy, Sweet Toof, Russel Morris, Rebecca & Mike, James Jessop, Rory Dean, Peggy ,Tony Lea, Skewville, Cain Casar, Head Hoods, Alex Simpson, Richard Galloway,Alex Booker, Art Against Knives, Five Finger Discount, The Art Collective, Beach London, Vinnie Nylon, House Of Brag + more + special guests!

More pics from the opening HERE

Further info on www.highrollersociety.com

Interviews/ Studio visits, London, Los Angeles, New York, Videos

Interview with Mode 2

December 14, 2011 butterfly

Canal Plus Street TV is featuring a great interview with Mode 2, whom I had the opportunity to meet on several occasions in London, New York and Los Angeles.