London: Rancinan at Opera Gallery

September 23, 2011 butterfly 1 Comment

French photographer Gerard Rancinan comes to London’s Opera Gallery as his first stop on a world tour, taking in Hong Kong, Miami and New York, with his larger-than -life images, Metamorphoses, Hypotheses, Wonderful World and Portraits.

The artist, who has four World Press Awards, revisits our most ancient and significant interrogations, such as globalisation, poverty, starvation, freedom and human rights using his vivid and dynamic style.

He also features portraits of famous artists ranging from Monica Belluci to Zang Huan, revealing their talent and force of nature in captivating ‘portrait performances.’

Full set of pics HERE

Rancinan in London
12th September – 2nd October
www.operagallery.com

New York

New York: VICE Full Frontal Party with Rick Ross

September 23, 2011 butterfly

Vice Magazine threw a hell of a party at 1 Hanson place in Brooklyn to celebrate the launch of their web counterpart Vice.com.

With flowing free drinks and live performance acts, in true VICE form all kind of acts of debauchery were going on.

Brooklyn based duo Tanlines with Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm

Rapper Ricky Rozay aka Rick Ross sent the crowd into a frenzy with some people crowd surfing, girls fighting, other spraying beer like champagne.

Further pics from the party HERE

Auctions, New York, Shows

New York: Made in Polaroid – Phillips de Pury

September 21, 2011 butterfly

As featured on Arrested Motion

A star studded charity art show Made In Polaroid was held at Phillips de Pury. The benefit was a one night auction that featured 50 works created by the 50-50-50 project using Polaroid’s mobile printer. All proceeds went to support Free Arts NYC. Numerous notable artists including Marilyn Minter, Jean Pigozzi, Will Cotton, Patrick Demarchelier, Phillip-Lorca Dicorica, Steven Klein, Matthew Rolston, Paulo Roversi, Lady Gaga, James Franco, Maripol, Nate Lowman, Chris Anthony, Estevan Oriol, Gary Baseman, Tyra Banks, EINE, Stella IM Hultberg, Krista Huot, Nick Walker, Sylvia Ji, Eric Joyner, Dabs & Myla, RISK, Hilary Pecis, Alex Pardee, Gary Taxali, Hush, Joe Sorren and Dave Kinsey all put forth some exceptional original works that created a buzz all night long.

Some pics from the night:

Full set of pics here HERE

London, Shows, Street

London: LUDO – Metamorphosis

September 18, 2011 butterfly

French artist LUDO opened his first London solo show at High Roller Society entitled Metamorphosis. The exhibition is two folds, featuring on one side a selection of drawings on paper, and on the other side an installation room. Visitors entering the installation are faced with mad professors in latex gloves and incubation boxes containing mutated insect sculptures made of polyamide.

The opening saw the release of a hand-pulled screenprint named e-Lepidoptera, as well as limited edition book.

Full set of pics HERE

Ludo – Metamorphosis
High Roller Society
10 Sept – 7 Oct 2011

London, Shows

London: Antony Micallef – Happy Deep Inside My Heart

September 12, 2011 butterfly

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