Category Archives: London

London: Antony Micallef – Happy Deep Inside My Heart

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

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 View the entire set here

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

Opening: Boxi – Time of the Signs

See my coverage on Juxtapoz

Boxi

Last October, Berlin based artist Boxi painted a large wall in London with his hyperrealistic style combining multi-layered stencils.

Boxi 

The Lazarides Rathbone Gallery is currently featuring some of his paintings for a solo exhibition titled Time of the Signs.

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See all the pics from the opening HERE.

Boxi
Time of the Signs
Lazarides Rathbone
29th July – 1st September 2011

London: Nuevo Mundo book launch at POW

I attended the London book launch party for Nuevo Mundo at Pictures on Walls. The book provides a comprehensive documentation of current street art in Latin America from Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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The author, Maximilliano Ruiz, as well as many of the artists featured in the book (Thiago Alvim, Yusk, Don Lucho, Inti, Kelp, Saile, Stinkfish, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, Buytronik, Cix, Mones, Basik, Jade Physe Wesr) were present at the event to sign and personalise books.
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Further pics from the book launch party HERE

Opening: Charming Baker

Returning to London, Charming Baker new solo show is taking place at the Mercer Street Studios, an old banana warehouse in Covent Garden from 7th-31st July 2011.

The exhibition titled “Every Thing Must Go” is showcasing new paintings as well as a collection of bronze busts. 

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Charming Baker

Jealous Gallery will also be doing live printing sessions at the weekend.

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Further pics from the opening HERE

16 Mercer Street
London WC2 0HQ

Opening: Stolenspace Summer Group Show 2011

This July sees the annual Summer Group show at StolenSpace with represented artists as well as a few new names to the roster, showcasing all brand new works in varied media and size.

Featured artists: Arth Daniels, Chloe Early, D*Face, David Bray, Eelus, EINE, Falk Jensen, Hellovon, Jake Wood Evans, James Mylne, Josie Morway, Meryl Donoghue, Mysterious Al, Oliver Vernon, Ronzo, Rose Sanderson, Roxanne Jackson, Rico, Ripo, Shepard Fairey, Sylvia Ji, Toshikazu Nozaka, Viktor Vauthier, Word To Mother.

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Photos from the opening HERE

Summer Group Show
08.07.11 – 31.07.11
http://stolenspace.com