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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

View the entire set here

Antony Micallef
Happy Deep Inside My Heart
Through October 22, 2011

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London: VNA 16 Launch Party

September 10, 2011 butterfly

Thursday 8th September saw the launch of the eagerly awaited issue 16 of Very Nearly Almost magazine. The new issue features Invader, Chu, Dead Sea Mob, Kid Zoom, Will Barras, as well as street photos from different cities. I was happy to contribute and discover interviews from the different artists.

This time, a special VNA 16 limited edition with a screenprinted cover has been signed by Invader. The pack also contains a series of VNA/Invader stickers, within a shiny silver screenprinted enveloppe. No wonder a growing crowd started to queue from the early afternoon at Pictures on Walls to get one of the 80 from the special edition made available for the launch party.

Here are some pics from the release party:

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Opening: Boxi – Time of the Signs

August 4, 2011 butterfly 1 Comment

See my coverage on Juxtapoz

Last October, Berlin based artist Boxi painted a large wall in London with his hyperrealistic style combining multi-layered stencils.

The Lazarides Rathbone Gallery is currently featuring some of his paintings for a solo exhibition titled Time of the Signs.

See all the pics from the opening HERE.

Boxi
Time of the Signs
Lazarides Rathbone
29th July – 1st September 2011

Books, London

London: Nuevo Mundo book launch at POW

July 12, 2011 butterfly

I attended the London book launch party for Nuevo Mundo at Pictures on Walls. The book provides a comprehensive documentation of current street art in Latin America from Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

The author, Maximilliano Ruiz, as well as many of the artists featured in the book (Thiago Alvim, Yusk, Don Lucho, Inti, Kelp, Saile, Stinkfish, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, Buytronik, Cix, Mones, Basik, Jade Physe Wesr) were present at the event to sign and personalise books.

Further pics from the book launch party HERE

London, Shows

Opening: Charming Baker

July 11, 2011 butterfly

Returning to London, Charming Baker new solo show is taking place at the Mercer Street Studios, an old banana warehouse in Covent Garden from 7th-31^st July 2011.

The exhibition titled “Every Thing Must Go” is showcasing new paintings as well as a collection of bronze busts.