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Paris: Oli Epp ‘Epiphanies’

May 28, 2018 butterfly

Semiose Galerie in Paris is currently showing ‘Epiphanies‘, a solo exhibition by British artist Oli Epp. Born in 1994, Oli Epp is a recent graduate of the City & Guilds of London Art School and has taken the art world by storm. Despite his young age, Oli Epp has already taken part in a series of exhibitions from Australia, Denmark, the US and Spain and has a huge following on social media.

His body of work are inspired by his everyday experiences and observations. Often autobiographical, they share situations that involve the artist and his encounters with a touch of humour.

Using flatness and realism, simplified characters are portrayed with oversized heads, with an absence of facial features, self-absorbed in their post digital age with a focus on their branded items and communication pieces. Oli Epp’s paintings are a visual play between real and digital lives and a satirical representation of human interactions in a world of consumerism and communication.

Oli Epp – Epiphanies
Semiose Galerie
Until 6 June 2018
34 rue Chapon
75003 Paris

Paris, Shows, Street, streets

Paris: D*Face ‘Turncoat’ Mural

May 11, 2018 butterfly 1 Comment

British artist D*Face (covered) has just completed his second mural in Paris, at 155 boulevard Vincent Auriol, part of the ongoing open air museum in the 13th District with Street Art 13 Mural program.

This is the mural version of his painting ‘Turncoat‘, here on 25 meters high and 15 meters wide. This monumental work marks a departure in D*Face’s work. The portrait is made from a blue colour palette, while most of its pieces are based on a plurality of colors.

The artist, explained it as follows: “The colour scheme is new to me, it’s a new direction, each artist goes through his blue period, at the moment it must be my turn. . ” This palette represents a certain melancholy in his view of the world. The woman lips are tinted with a vibrant electric red, highlighting her power of seduction while her frowning brows and rebellious hair show her strong temperament. D*Face also added his signature wings and pop imagery to the mural.

In parallel, the original painting ‘Turncoat’ is currently visible at the new solo exhibition ‘Fornever‘ at Galerie Itinerrance until 19 May.

View the full set of pics here

Paris, Shows

Paris: Felipe Pantone – Dynamic Phenomena

May 6, 2018 butterfly

Chromatic and cynetic master Felipe Pantone is currently presenting his first solo exhibition ‘Dynamic Phenomena‘ in Paris at Magda Danysz Gallery.

Born in Buenos Aires, Pantone is an Argentinian-Spanish artist based in Valencia, Spain. Internationally prolific, Pantone enchants with his majestic murals, sculptures or monumental installations. Invited to the 2016 edition of the Maus Festival in Malaga (covered), the artist completely repainted a bridge overlooking the river Guadalmedina.

Felipe Pantone’s approach is to question the current era and its propensity to place new technologies at the center of our daily lives, making us dependent on a superabundance of images and symbols. He himself is passionate about the advent of the internet that gives instant access to the entire history of mankind. The problems he addresses are contemporary and universal: movement, the notion of time, saturation, alienation and destruction

With his exhibition “Dynamic phenomena”, Pantone imagines geometric subjects on modeling software, taking up the aesthetics of 3D creation, which he then reproduces in XXL size or on canvases. He brings them to life by superimposing his installations into disturbing optical illusions reminding of an explosion or an electric shock.

In a powerful dynamic, Pantone adds abstract and stroboscopic touches to articulate black and white geometric shapes creating a futuristic style with psychedelic accents and metallic colours.

View the full set of pics here

Felipe Pantone ‘Dynamic Phenomena’
Until 12 May 2018
Magda Danysz Gallery
Paris

Paris, streets

Paris: ESCIF ‘Open Borders’ at Palais de Tokyo

May 1, 2018 butterfly 1 Comment

From May 4th, Palais de Tokyo in Paris will pay tribute to the history and legacy of the May 1968 events with a intervention by Escif, where he reproduced some of the famous writings from that period of student revolts. His creation completes the project, which was started in 2015 by Greek artist Stelios Faitakis, who realized two murals dedicated to the legacy of the situationist movement and civil unrest of May 1968. This intervention is part of the 10th installment of the LASCO Project (covered) curated by Hugo Vitrani, the Urban Art programme of Palais de Tokyo launched in 2012 which features artworks by over sixty international artists throughout its building.

Escif states: “I’m looking for the limit, how to paint a mural that is not a mural (…) The wall is a limit, a tool of power with which we plan, control and manipulate the space of cities. Graffiti abuses of walls by ridiculing them, by transgressing their original function. A painted wall is then no longer a limit but a transversal channel.”

Overlooking the iconic Eiffel Tower, the Spanish artist’s mural features trompe-l’oeil elements like country flags, doors, fire escapes, and wild vegetation throughout the back walls of the Palais de Tokyo, while tags and slogans lacerate the walls.

The written texts are inspired by the graffiti drawn clandestinely in the toilets of the institution which have been archived by the artist, as well as writings that accompanied the student revolts of May 68.

The general composition of the painting is a nod to the board game ‘Snakes and Ladders’ and plunges the player into a journey between vice and virtue. This is a perfect vehicle for Escif to question the part of situationism and politics plays in the art of writing on walls.

View the full set of pics here

ESCIF – Open Borders
From 4 May 2018
Lasco Project
Palais de Tokyo
Paris

Art Fair

Urban Art Fair (Paris)

April 14, 2018 butterfly

For its 3rd Paris edition, the Urban Art Fair brings together thirty galleries from eight different countries at the Carreau du Temple from April 12 to 15, 2018.

With a selection of French and international galleries, the Fair is presenting a panorama of different techniques and mediums in the urban contemporary movement with works of more than 200 artists.

In parallel the Urban Art Fair is collaborating with Urban Films Festival, and will be featuring films related to the urban universe, with a focus on street art and graffiti artists’ films.

Amongst the participating galleries and artists, here are some highlights.