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Fresh DRAN and BRUSK Mural in London

June 14, 2010 butterfly 1 Comment

Following their live performance at the second Lawnfest Charity event hosted by Camilla Al Fayed and sponsored by Gallery Nosco, French artists Dran and Brusk from the DMV crew left their mark in East London.

Dran and Brusk actively painted a fresh mural day and night over the week end in Great Eastern Street.

The collaboration depicts a dragon monster representing a CEO (still wearing his tie on) eating an employee, while Dran’s signature children characters are happily riding and laughing on his back.

More photos from the mural HERE

For more info visit Gallery Nosco
Dran at Pictures on Walls
Brusk at www.lightgraff.org

London, Shows

High Roller Society – Press and Release

June 12, 2010 butterfly 1 Comment

High Roller Society, an artist-led gallery launched in January 2010 in East London, presented this Friday “Press and Release”, a Group Printmaking Exhibition featuring over 50 street and contemporary artists from the UK, US and Europe.

The show, running until 24 July 2010, will also feature a screen printing workshop and a linocutting demonstration.

Participating Artists are:
2 SICK BASTARDS, AIDA, ANN-CAROLINE BREIG, AVOID, AXEL VOID, BUSK, CEPT, CYCLOPS, DAVE THE CHIMP, DAVID O’SHAUGHNESSY, DINT WOOER, DORA, DSCREET, ECHO, FARO, FEFE TALAVERA, GOLD PEG, HAZE BURKE, HEADHOODS, HUGH MENDES, JAMES JESSOP, JAMES UNSWORTH, KID ACNE, LINOCUT BOY, LUDO, LUDVIG, MARCIN DUDEK, MARTIN LEA BROWN, MARTIN MCGINN, MARTYN PAYNE, MAT ECO, METRIK, MONKEY, MOTORBOY, MUDWIG, NYLON, PANIK, PARIS, PAUL GREEN, PAUL INSECT, PINKY, RICH T, ROWDY, RUN, RUSSELL MAURICE, RUTH CALLAND, SCOTT MINZY, SEMOR & CO, SHE ONE, SICKBOY, SNOE, STICKEE, SWEET TOOF, SYLVIA UGGA, TEK 33, TIKICHRIS, TOM ASHTON-BOOTH, WHOM, ZOOT

More info on
www.highrollersociety.co.uk

FEFE TALAVERA (Brazil)

SWEET TOOF (UK)

PAUL INSECT (UK)

HEADHOODS (US)

More photos from the opening HERE

Shows

Beyond the Street UK Book Launch

May 24, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

Written by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie and published by Gestalten, ” Beyond the Street” is comprised of interviews and images with 100 key players in street and urban art from around the world. With its impressive list of participants, artists, gallerists, auction houses gathered over two years, this 400 pages tome provides a unique and insightful portrait of street and urban art.

More details about the book and list of participants here.

LONDON BOOK LAUNCH
Many contributors, artists and art enthusiasts attended the London book launch and signing event at the Phillips de Pury auction house: Alexone, Blek Le Rat, D*Face, Lucas Price, Mode2, Slinkachu, Matt Small, Andipa Gallery, Gallerie LJ, Steve Lazarides to name a few.

Patrick Nguyen signing Stuart Mackenzie with Blek Le Rat

Alexone with Lucas Price Matt Small

Lina from Gestalten and David Chaumet

More photos from the event by Butterfly here
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH
If you missed the London one and wish to meet some of the contributors, Deitch Projects will be holding the US book launch on Thursday 27 May 2010.
18 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013

RSVP required. See the invite below.

Invitation Deitch

New York, Shows

The Faile & Bäst Deluxx Fluxx Arcade in NYC

May 19, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

After the London success of the explosive and creative Deluxx Fluxx video arcade installation (covered here ) Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused storefront on the Lower East Side.

Originally conceived as a one-off project in London, Deluxx Fluxx allowed Faile and Bast to indulge nostalgia for the classic video arcade while exploring the tactile possibilities of the wooden cabinet as sculptural medium.

Deluxx Fluxx aims to make art less sterile, more fun, and accessible to a broad audience. This sensibility harkens back to the golden age of arcade games; a time when the Lower East Side itself was still a redoubt for punk rock and graffiti culture. Deluxx Fluxx is entirely interactive, and invites viewers to play a round of psychedelic foosball and take part in the art itself. It is the artists’ intention that viewers will forget they are looking at art, and be captivated by the carnivalesque. The video arcade may be a lost form, but in Faile and Bast’s re-imagining, it gets a temporary and much needed revival.

In its New York incarnation, a new set of the retrofitted machines run games by Adapted based on Faile and Bast’s omnivorous visual language, with sounds produced by Seth Jabour of the noted band Les Savy Fav.

Photos by Butterfly

The show is now on view until the 27th May 2010.

Check out this video from the NY Times
[video:http://vimeo.com/11625152 350×307]

http://vimeo.com/11625152

Deluxx Fluxx NYC
158 Allen St. New York, NY 10002
Tuesday-Sunday 3-11pm

More information available at www.DeluxxFluxx.com

London, Shows

Charles Krafft & Mike Leavitt Opening – Pitchwork Pals

May 16, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

A variety of handcrafted items transform StolenSpace Gallery into a sinister souvenir shop with dictator teapots, life-size human bone china shovels, cardboard tennis shoes and artist action figures.