Many new Banksy stencils have appeared in London over the week end, as featured on his website (www.banksy.co.uk).
It’s always a great pleasure to see them in the flesh.
Here is a nod to Keith Haring.
and an escape door from Hell…
A new concept gallery combining art with an hair salon, Electric Blue Gallery has gathered UK and French artists, to each make over an entire street in their inimitable style, creating an unprecedented outdoor gallery only visible at night.
The exhibition/outdoor concept, Faces, extends the gallery space beyond its traditional white walls and out onto the blank canvas of eleven surrounding streets, creating an affluent new London East End destination by day, and a free, international gallery of world-class contemporary art by night. With over a year in planning, by completion it will be one of the biggest permanent public installations in the world.
During the “Faces” opening on Thursday 16 September, Zevs’ crew performed live by spraying LV clean graffiti.
As part of the upcoming ‘Faces’ exhibition which opens on Thursday 16 September at the Electric Blue Gallery, Ben Flynn, a.k.a. Eine has taken over an entire street, nicknamed ‘Alphabet Street’ (Middlesex Street, formerly Petticoat Lane) across a series of multiple weeks.
The regeneration project proudly marks the boundary line between the East End and the City of London.
All shop shutters have been painted in pastel colours with Eine’s distinctive typography.
Across 4 weeks weather permitting, Eine also worked on a mural depicting flying crosswords.
This is one of the most complex mural, multi-layered, multicolored he’s done to date.
The main sentence if you can find it *, sits perfectly in the City surroundings.
Here are some pics of the work in progress
* Sell the house, the kids, the wife, it’s bonus time
www.einesigns.co.uk
The Portobello Film Festival enters its 15th year in 2010, over which time it has established itself as one of London’s premier film festivals. All screenings and events are free, taking place at bars, studios, parks, galleries and cinemas in Notting Hill and Portobello.
Part of this years festival program is ARTIST’S EYE where selected artists do some live painting in the pop up cinema under the Westway and introduce the movie of their choice before the screening.
This year’s guest of honour is Blek Le Rat who is introducing the movie Performance.
The festival is also featuring many artists such as Dotmasters, Inkie, SoloOne,
Babooshka, Patrick Hughes, Andrew Logan, Michael Horovitz, BA5H and more.
Dotmasters painted a scene from the movie Holy Mountain.
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