London: Daniel Arsham – Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

November 27, 2014 butterfly

New York based contemporary artist Daniel Arsham launched a wall intervention called ‘Bound Figure’ at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London. Using fiberglass, a pair of shoes, and manipulating the surface, the artist created an optical illusion of a human figure trapped by the gallery walls.

Daniel Arsham

The gallery is also displaying a series of signature artworks like a disused walkman, camera, guitar and boombox.

View the full set of pics here

In parallel Daniel Arsham is also participating to the awaited show Post Pop: East Meets West show at Saatchi Gallery.

Lastly to coincide with a new limited edition sculpture release, the artist premiered his film Future Relic 02 film, featuring James Franco.

Daniel Arsham – Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Until 5 January 2015
6 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BT

London, Shows

London: Nigel Cox – Oblivious

November 25, 2014 butterfly

Irish artist Nigel Cox is currently showing a new body of works entitled “Oblivious’ with contemporary curatorial duo Coates & Scarry in London. Nigel Cox creates minimalistic oil paintings with an extraordinary realism and meticulous details.

Inspired by ordinary people going about their everyday lives and immersed in their own routine, he captures their moments unaware.

The abandonment of background detail focuses the viewer directly on the subject, whose face is not visible, and creates a feeling of inner calm and tranquillity.

Nigel Cox - Oblivious

View the full set of pics here

Nigel Cox – Oblivious
Coates & Scarry
Gallery 8
8 Duke Street
London SW1Y 6BN.

Paris, Shows

Paris: Richard Prince – New Figures

November 24, 2014 butterfly

New York based contemporary artist Richard Prince goes neo-Cubist with a beautiful body of photo collage paintings titled New Figures at Gallery Almine Rech in Paris.

The drawn lines, pale colors, and collaged shapes refer to Picasso’s elegant lines and Matisse’s scissor-snipped collages, before American art went Pop and life turned electronic. Some of the girls are covered with drawn bodies, another’s arms morph into geometric or schematic appendages in a freehand combination of image, design, and drawing.

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Richard Prince – New Figures
Until 20 December 2014
Almine Rech Gallery
Paris

London, Shows, Uncategorized

London: David Walker – A Blank Canvas is a White Flag

November 21, 2014 butterfly

Lawrence Alkin Gallery is presenting brand new works by David Walker at the Hoxton Gallery in London. The show entitled ‘A Blank Canvas is a White Flag’ features sculpture, photography and printmaking, made in collaboration with RYCA and Schoony.

David Walker & RYCA

Working only with spray paint, his signature multi-layered colourful portraiture has evolved through different techniques. For his ‘Pour Paintings’, David Walker created portraits by literally pouring paint onto canvas.

A medical cabinet displays a series of colourful multilayered fragments, results of years of spraypaint accumulation. These are featured in his new photographic series.

The main body of new works in the show titled as ‘arrangements’ are made of single portraits created across multiple canvasses each with their own self-contained colour theme and nuance, from monochrome to photorealistic sections.

On this collection of works, Walker comments:“The arrangements are a way for me to revitalise my process, the different coloured backgrounds suggest different approaches and colour logic to each, seeing both the individual and the whole. This is what I want the viewer to experience- first acknowledging the portrait in its entirety – then as the eye moves across each canvas the image is decoded and in some instances its elements become abstract.“

View the full set of pics here

David Walker – ‘A Blank Canvas is a White Flag’
Until 30 November 2014
Lawrence Alkin Gallery
9 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8AA

Books

London: VNA Issue 28

November 20, 2014 butterfly

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Very Nearly Almost Magazine launches the VNA 28 Limited Edition, featuring a screenprinted box set from Rebel8’s head clothing designer, Mike Giant.

The issue features the first interview with the entire Da Mental Vaporz crew from their infamous Exquisite Corpse paintings to what keep them going for over a decade.

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DMV – Copenhagen 2011 – Photo by Butterfly

Taking a look at INSA’s career to date, VNA delve into his past, from his childhood bedroom posters to his very latest app release – a neat little piece of tricknology by the name of ‘GIF-ITI”.

INSA – London 2012 – Photo by Butterfly