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London: Mr Brainwash at Opera Gallery

October 6, 2011 butterfly

Opera Gallery London is exhibiting a selection of works by Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash for his first UK solo show.

Many people from the cinema and West End made it to the joyful opening.

True to his portrait in the movie Exit through the Gift Shop, Thierry Guetta’s larger than life character and motto “life is beautiful” had a contagious effect on the happy crowd.

Simon de Pury, Mr Brainwash and Jean-David Malat

More photos from the opening HERE

Thierry Guetta was also happy to announce a massive show next summer in London 2012 during the Olympics, so stay tuned!

OPERA GALLERY LONDON
134 New Bond Street,
London W1S 2TF,
UK
Tel (0207) 491 2999

London, Shows

London: Boom Boom Club at the Old Vic

October 5, 2011 butterfly

Chris Alys

For six nights over two weeks to mark the end of the summer season, the Boom Boom Club returns with brand new decadent cabaret exploits in the exclusive surroundings of the murky and mysterious underground Old Vic Tunnels underneath London Waterloo.

High-calibre acts showcase the length and breadth of cabaret, from exquisite grace and charm to multi-sensory overload, from the lyrical to the downright despicable.

The finest entertainers from London and the rest of the world like Chris Alys performed to intimate and captivated audiences.

Chris Alys

Vicky Butterfly

Franck Sanazi

Kitty Bang Bang

Leah Debrincat

Laurie Hagen

Full set of pics here HERE

boomboomclub.co.uk

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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

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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