Here is a video of the 40 meters mural that the Da Mental Vaporz crew completed earlier this summer (covered here) in Mantes-La-Jolie (FR) for the Graffitizm event.
London: Urban Masters
Teaming up with Opera Gallery London and ANV, we are pleased to curate Urban Masters, opening on 9th November at Factory 7, in London Shoreditch.
The show is featuring paintings and installations, where artists from around the globe are paying tribute to the masters that inspired them.
Participating artists: Bom.K, Blo, Brusk, Gris1, Jaw, Kan, Sowat, Lek, Roa, David Shillinglaw, Zezão, Sweet Toof, Blek Le Rat, Ron English, Mac1, Matt Small, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, El Mac, C215, Joe Black, Seen, Risk, Remi Rough, Sixeart, Zeus, Mentalgassi, Nick Gentry, The London Police, StinkFish, Rone, Banksy, Kid Zoom, Nick Walker, and Shepard Fairey.
On November 9th, there will also be a book signing session in presence of some of the artists. View the catalogue here
Urban Masters
9 – 18 November 2012
Factory 7 (13 Hearn Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3LS)
Paris: KAWS « Imaginary Friends » – Galerie Perrotin
Galerie Perrotin‘s flagship location in Paris just launched a range of new works from KAWS in a show entitled, Imaginary Friends, featuring a series of giant Chums and colourful paintings. Continuing its tour after Hong-Kong and New York, a 16-foot KAWS Passing Through Companion welcomes guests at the entrance. The show runs until 22 November.
Further pics of the opening here
Kaws – Imaginary Friends
Galerie Perrotin Paris
3 November – 22 December 2012
Paris: John Giorno x Lek x Sowat at Palais de Tokyo
For the new season Imaginez l’imaginaire at the prestigious Parisian institution Palais de Tokyo , Jean de Loisy and Akiko Miki invited John Giorno , major figure of New York’s underground scene in the 60′s and of the Beat generation, to adorn four of the freshly renovated building’s walls with his poem paintings.
With the support of Hugo Vitrani, Giorno seized the occasion to confront two of his poem paintings ‘Just say no to family values‘ and ‘A hurricane in a drop of cum‘ to the work of graffiti artists Lek and Sowat, that he discovered through their Mausolee project (covered here), an illegal artistic residency that brought together 40 French graffiti writers in a 430,000 sq ft ruin.
Lek and Sowat covered the walls with their signature style graffitis, on top John Giorno’s self adhesive vinyl letters, before pealing them off, thus revealing the american artist’s poems.
The artists then stashed the poem’s letters negatives to wheat paste them with the help of Dem189, on the river bank’s grey walls, opposite the Palais de Tokyo.
Pics by Butterfly, Hugo Vitrani and Thias
Imaginez L’imaginaire
Until 28 September 2013
Palais de Tokyo
London: Sound & Vision by Shepard Fairey
Following his solo show at Stolenspace in 2007, Shepard Fairey has returned to London for a major solo show titled Sound & Vision. Featuring new works including mixed media paintings on canvas, works on paper, retired stencils collages, rubylith cuts, and as well as serigraphs on wood, metal and paper.
For the opening Z-Trip created a soundtrack that can be listened here.
In parallel to the show, London have been treated to three new Obey murals and countless paste ups across the streets.
View the full set of pics by Butterfly here
Shepard Fairey – Sound & Vision
Until 04.11.12
London
Stolenspace
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