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London: Juliette Losq – Nemora @ FAS

September 16, 2014 butterfly

The British artist Juliette Losq just opened her solo show Nemora at Fine Art Society in London. Inspired by English ‘Gothic’ of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Losq depicts liminal landscapes by juxtaposing rococo prints, Victorian newspaper illustrations, sci- fi and horror films, as well as detritus. Working over the surface repetitively, multiple painted layers simultaneously obscure and reveal those beneath. In parallel to her mixed media paintings, Juliette Hosq has created three site specific installation works including a piece that revisits the gallery’s historic ground floor fireplace. Another work will features a 3m high wave of painted paper tumble from an antique grandfather clock.

Juliette Hosq - Nemora

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Juliette Losq- Nemora
FAS
Until 2 October

London

London: Phlegm at the Royal Opera House

September 13, 2014 butterfly

UK based artist Phlegm is collaborating with the Royal Opera House in London Covent Garden this month. We followed Phlegm as he created a large scale outdoor installation for the Festival of Myth curated by Minna Moore Ede of the National Gallery and the Royal Ballet, which will be on display until September 28. Influenced by the Greek myths, Prometheus and Leda and the Swan, cut out wooden panels build an imposing sculptural fortress that stands tall on the piazza entrance to the opera house, and Phlegm’s signature characters blend harmoniously with mythological figures.

Phlegm - Royal Opera House London

Phlegm also painted a large mural on the inside of the opera house depicting a tree hung with smoldering objects and entangled with celestial orbs, which will be up for at least the next year. A series of nine hand made coper etching are also displayed next to his indoor mural.

Phlegm - Royal Opera House London

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Phlegm
Royal Opera House London

London, Shows, Street

London: Reka / Twoone @ StolenSpace

September 12, 2014 butterfly

StolenSpace Gallery is opening the new season in London with two concurrent solo shows from Australian artists based in Berlin: Reka’s “Trip the Light” and Two One’s “The Hunted Hunter’s Head.”

Reka’s new body of work is inspired by his mother who was a ballerina. His brushstrokes reflect the graceful movements of a female dancer though a monochrome palette. Referenced in John Milton’s 1645 poem L’Allegro, to “trip the light fantastic” alludes to those who dance without inhibition.

Reka - Stolenspace

In parallel Reka has given a new life to disused rusted spray cans found throughout his adventures and repurposed them into new works of art.

Japanese born Hiroyasu Tsuri aka Two One emigrated to Australia before relocating recently to Berlin. Continuing his ongoing series that he calls “Psychological Portrait”, Two One uses patterns and human-animal hybrids portraits to show more of the inner character and personality.

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Reka – Trip the Light
TwoOne – The Hunted Hunter’s Head
Until 4 October 2014
StolenSpace Gallery

London, Shows

London: The Unauthorized Banksy Retrospective

July 3, 2014 butterfly

The Unauthorized Banksy Retrospective - S|2

Curated by Banksy’s former gallerist Steve Lazarides, the Unauthorized Retrospective hosted at Sotheby’s gallery space S|2 is a selling exhibition featuring from prints, originals on canvas and wood as well as sculptures. With 70 pieces from the mid-1990s to 2009, the show displays some works to the public for the first time like the stencil version of the Kissing Coppers, a Monkey Queen portrait, or “Banksus Militus Vandalus,” a taxidermy sculpture illegally installed in a natural history museum in 2004. On view through July 25, the retrospective will give Banksy fans a chance to view these rare, much talked-about works in a strange collision of worlds — from the street to the high-end auction house.

The Unauthorized Banksy Retrospective - S|2

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The Banksy Unauthorized Retrospective
Until 25 July 2014
S|2
St George Street, London

London, Shows

London: Katrin Fridriks – Flying Awareness

June 29, 2014 butterfly

Icelandic abstract painter Katrin Fridriks is launching her first solo show at Lazarides Rathbone in London, following her participation in Lazarides’ 2013 group shows BRUTAL and Fresh Paint. The exhibition titled “Flying Awareness” features a brand new body of work with her signature style of idiosyncratic dripping enlargements and bold kaleidoscopic leaking effects.

With her distinctive liquid drippings, Fridriks creates a new architectural dimension to discover inside the artwork itself, reminiscent of satellite imagery or through the lenses of drones. A video also displays a drone flying around the gallery space.

Katrin Fridriks