While in Brest, super prolific artist Gris1 has been colouring walls and shutters accross town with his bubbly characters.
London: Know Hope – The abstract and the very real
Tel Aviv-based artist Know Hope makes his solo debut at Lazarides Rathbone with a new exhibition, The Abstract and The Very Real, featuring a series of works on found objects, vintage frames, and old papers that explore the collective social existence.
View pics from the opening here/
Know Hope
The Abstract and the very Real
Until 29 August 2013
Lazarides Rathbone
11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR
Brest (FR): Crimes of Minds
During 3 years the Crimes of Minds project invited local and international artists to create 21 murals across the city of Brest (France), transforming the city into an urban art museum. To celebrate the end of the project and launch of a book documenting the process, a retrospective exhibition has been organized within 22000 sq meters former warehouse, a perfect opportunity for artists to display artworks but also perform some live painting.
Featuring Liliwenn (FR), Jef Aerosol (FR), Guy Denning (UK), Ben Slow (UK), Finbarr Dac (UK), Da Mental Vaporz (Bom.K, Blo, Brusk, Gris1, Kan, Sowat), C215 (FR), Morten Andersen (DK), SLY2 (FR), Wen2 (FR), Alice Pasquini (IT), Kool Korr (US), Best Ever (UK), Pakone (FR), Celeste Java (FR), TSF, Antoine Stevens (FR).
Full set of pics of the exhibition here
London: Paul Insect & Sweet Toof
Berlin: Blo – La petite Mort
OpenWalls Gallery in Berlin just opened the solo show of French graffiti artist Blo
(see our recent studio visit here) called La petite Mort.
Set in Stadtbad, former public baths reconverted into creative spaces, the first room presents one-off black ink hand drawings on watercolor paper.
Upon entering a second room, viewers are surrounded by a “Duels” serie,
monochrome paintings using exclusively Krink.
The grand finale consists of colorful canvases using spray paint and acrylic,
featuring erotic and androgynous figures in various oniric state.
Blo also takes a twist on the icon Mary and Child with his “Madonne”,
and created two accompanying murals.
View all the pics from the opening here
Check the online catalogue
BLO
“La Petite Mort”
Open Walls Gallery
Stadtbad, Berlin
6 July – 27 July
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